IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.7, Issue 491

[Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>]

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
February 14, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 7
Issue 491

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 II. JOBS
        1. Thrownet: A New Search Engine Company
        2. UW-Milwaukee: SLIS: Assistant Professor
        3. Temple U., Philadelphia: Institute for Information Science
           and Technology: Director & Multiple Tenure Track Positions
        4. Thomas Jefferson U., Philadelphia: Serials and Electronic
           Collections Librarian
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management,
           00244, 36:2
     B. Meetings
        1. ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: 2nd CFPapers
        2. ICCI2000: 2nd CFPapers
        3. IRSG 2000: 1st Announcement
        4. LREC2000: CFParticipation
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. XML Version of Corpus Encoding Standard
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. NSF ITR: 2001 Agenda

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Philip A. Bralich <bralich@hawaii.edu>
Re: Thrownet: A New Search Engine Company

There is a new search engine company (start up phase) called "Thrownet" at
http://www.thrownet.com which is advertising for linguists and computational
linguists who can provide a one question one response functionality for a
search engine front end. Does anyone know what technologies they are using (if
this is public information)? The last I heard they were looking at the
Franklin
parser out of New Jersey. For those of you who are interested they seem to be
offering a lot of jobs.

Phil Bralich

Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
bralich@hawaii.edu
http://www.ergo-ling.com

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II.2.
Fr: Dietmar Wolfram <dwolfram@csd.uwm.edu>
Re: UW-Milwaukee: SLIS: Assistant Professor

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
School of Library and Information Science
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

The School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) invites applications for a new full-time
tenure-track
position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful candidate will teach
courses and conduct research in one or more of the following areas:
information
science, information technology, computer networking, information resources
management, digital libraries, information systems design.

The selected applicant will teach courses in the School's undergraduate B.S.
program in Information Resources, graduate M.L.I.S. program and
multidisciplinary doctoral program in Information Science. A Ph.D. in
Information Science or related field is required as is demonstrated ability in
research and teaching. Competitive salary for an academic year (9 month)
appointment, plus additional compensation for possible summer teaching, and
generous fringe benefits.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a major university committed to
academic excellence. It is one of the two doctoral degree-granting
institutions
in the multi-campus University of Wisconsin system, and has a student
enrollment of over 22,000. The School of Library and Information Science
offers
programs leading to a nationally accredited Masters in Library and Information
Science, a B. S. program in Information Resources, a certificate in advanced
studies, and a multidisciplinary doctorate. The School has a strong research
faculty, 350+ students, and state-of-the-art information technology
laboratories. UWM is located in the cultural, commercial, and educational hub
of the state, in a pleasant residential neighborhood overlooking Lake
Michigan.

Review of applications will begin March 6, 2000.

The starting date is August 21, 2000 or negotiable.

Send letters of application, resume, and three letters of reference to:
Dietmar Wolfram, Chair, Search Committee
School of Library and Information Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: (414) 229-6836
Fax: (414) 229-4848
Email: dwolfram@uwm.edu

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer with a strong commitment to the diversity of faculty,
staff, and student body.

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II.3.
Fr: Amanda Spink <spink@ist.psu.edu>
Re: Temple U., Philadelphia: Institute for Information Science and
    Technology: Director & Multiple Tenure Track Positions

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
CENTER FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DIRECTOR AND MULTIPLE FACULTY POSITIONS IN
INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The College of Science and Technology at Temple University is in the
process of
a major recruitment effort, and is filling 34 new faculty positions as part of
a major expansion. As part of this expansion, the College has formed a Center
for Information Science & Technology to promote interdisciplinary information
science and technology research within all applicable domains. The College
invites applications for multiple positions in Information Science &
Technology
at the level of Full, Associate, or Assistant Professor in the Center. Newly
hired faculty in the Center will be given tenure track appointments in the
interdisciplinary department of Computer and Information Sciences. Successful
candidates are expected to have or be able to develop significant research
programs and to provide effective instruction at both undergraduate and
graduate levels in Information Science & Technology.

Appointments are possible at all academic levels appropriate to experience.
Candidates for the position of Director and senior faculty positions must have
internationally known research programs, funding in Information Science &
Technology, and possess a strong commitment to the teaching of undergraduate
and graduate students. In addition, the Director of the Center for Information
Science & Technology will have demonstrated leadership ability to expand
grant-supported research by faculty in Information Science & Technology,
and to
enhance the academic mission of the Center.

Areas of interest in Information Science & Technology include, but are not
limited to, information systems development especially in a distributed
environment, knowledge management, collaboration systems, human-computer
interfaces, scalable information infrastructures, web- based development,
multi-media technologies, digital libraries, component-based software
engineering, and data mining, warehousing, and filtering. We especially
encourage applications from candidates whose research is interdisciplinary in
nature. Salaries for new faculty are highly competitive, and substantial
resources have been allocated for startup funding.

The Computer & Information Sciences Department offers Bachelors, Masters, and
Ph.D. Degrees in core and multidisciplinary areas. Temple University, located
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is part of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth System
of Higher Education and serves more than 27,000 students. Applicants should
submit a curriculum vitae, three representative publications, a statement of
research interests, a statement of teaching philosophy, and should arrange for
four letters of reference to be sent directly to the address below.

Professor John T. Nosek
Chair, Faculty Search Committee
Office of the Dean
College of Science and Technology
409 Barton Hall A
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Temple University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and
specifically invites and encourages applications from women and minorities.
Additional information about the university and the department is available at
http://www.temple.edu and http://www.cis.temple.edu.

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II.4.
Fr: Diana Zinnato <Diana.Zinnato@mail.tju.edu>
Re: Thomas Jefferson U., Philadelphia: Serials and Electronic
    Collections Librarian

SERIALS AND ELECTRONIC COLLECTIONS LIBRARIAN
The Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University seeks energetic and
creative applicants for the position of Serials and Electronic Collections
Librarian. Working in a highly automated environment under the direction of
the
Director of Collection Management, this individual will play a leadership role
in all aspects of serials and document delivery management.

The incumbent will manage a collection of 2,200 serials (print and electronic)
and several electronic databases using the SIRSI serials control module. The
SECL will lead the Library's initiative to greatly increase its offering of
electronic journal subscriptions next year. They will also oversee binding and
in-house preservation activities, collection evaluation, space monitoring,
journal holdings reporting and inventories as well as supervise 2 technicians
in these areas.

The SECL is also responsible for the coordination of all document delivery
activities supervising 3 technicians in this area. Responsibilities include
evaluating ILL policies and procedures to effect efficient and cost-effective
operations and overseeing the implementation of various ILL technologies
including OCLC, DOCLINE and Ariel.

Some minimal reference desk service is also required.

Requirements for this position are an accredited MLS, a minimum of 3 years
professional experience in serials work, preferably in an academic library,
supervisory experience, a working knowledge of an ILS serials module. The
salary range for this position is $34,500 - $43,000 per year. Knowledge of the
current trends in serials control, especially electronic journal
publishing, is
highly desirable. The successful candidate must thrive in a dynamic
environment, have effective written and oral communication and problem-solving
skills and be able to collaborate on team projects.

Thomas Jefferson University is an academic health center located in
center-city
Philadelphia. Scott Memorial Library is a department of Academic Information
Services and Research (AISR) which is comprised of the Library, Medical Media
Services and the Office of Academic Computing. AISR has a staff of 64 FTE
employees and an annual operating budget of $4 million. You are invited to
visit JEFFLINE, AISR's information management resource, at
http://jeffline.tju.edu for more information. The University offers excellent
flexible benefits including tuition reimbursement.

Qualified candidates should send a letter of application, their resume, and
the
names and phone numbers of three references to: Doug Block, Business Manager,
Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587. Screening of applications will begin on March
1st,
2000.

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: cdmailer@elsevier.co.uk
Re: ContentsDirect: Information Processing & Management, 00244, 36:2

ContentsDirect from Elsevier Science
URL: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/00244
Journal: Information Processing and Management
ISSN : 0306-4573
Volume : 36
Issue : 2
Date : 17-Feb-2000

pp 205-206
Introduction to the special issue on web-based information retrieval research
A Spink, J Qin

pp 207-227
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on
the web
BJ Jansen, A Spink, T Saracevic

pp 229-251
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory
study using a holistic approach
P Wang, WB Hawk, C Tenopir

pp 253-273
Design and empirical evaluation of search software for legal
professionals on the WWW
BJ Dempsey, RC Vreeland, RG Sumner, K Yang

pp 275-289
A system for supporting cross-lingual information retrieval
J Capstick, AK Diagne, G Erbach, H Uszkoreit, A Leisenberg, M
Leisenberg

pp 291-311
Relevance ranking for one to three term queries
CLA Clarke, GV Cormack, EA Tudhope

pp 313-330
Adapting a diagnostic problem-solving model to information retrieval
I Syu, SD Lang

pp 331-333
Book review: How classifications work: problems and challenges in an
electronic
age
J Qin

pp 333-336
Book review: High technology and low-income communities: prospects for the
positive use of advance information technology
C Cole

pp 336-338
Book review: Summarizing information
M Mitra

pp 338-339
Book review: Slaves of the Machine
DG Roussinov

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III.B.1.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop: 2nd CFPapers

EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS
WORKSHOP II
held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000
Thursday, May 4, 2000
Seattle, Washington, USA

Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop
http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems

WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?
An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines
among its components. These systems accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and
create various outputs that enable the users to access the original
information
in their own language. An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system allows
users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language input that they
previously only had been able to perform in their native language. To date,
these tasks have included summarization, content extraction, filtering and
document retrieval.

BACKGROUND
The first workshop on Embedded MT Systems was held in conjunction with the
biennial meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
(AMTA), in October, 1998, in Langhorne, PA. The Embedded MT Systems
Workshop II
is a response to the growing community commitment to translingual information
research, e.g., the DARPA TIDES initiative. By holding the workshop at the
combined NAACL and ANLP conferences this year, there will be an opportunity
for
a multi-disciplinary mix of researchers and developers to attend, contribute
and benefit from the workshop.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
As the strengths and weaknesses of machine translation engines have become
better understood and accepted, there has been a marked increase in the
development of a range of computer systems containing an MT component. This
workshop will focus on the system designs, the associated information access
tasks of such end-to-end systems, and the measures of system effectiveness. Of
particular interest are systems that accept one or another of various types of
input including hard-copy pages, online text files, and speech (natural or
transcribed). These inputs present real-world, noisy data that challenge MT
engine capabilities. We would like to know the degradation in performance that
these challenges present and the compensation strategies that system
developers
have tested or used. We also seek submissions describing possible
channel-specific feedback processes from other system components that help
correct the noisy input.

Papers describing multiple MT engines and algorithms for selecting among their
outputs are encouraged. It would be interesting to hear how these complex MT
components have been integrated into specific applications. For example, do
certain MT engines produce results better suited for summarization, retrieval,
or online foreign language tutoring?

The field of MT evaluation currently lacks an adequate methodology. There are
no widely used standards and few statisticians have been called upon to assess
the metrics that have been proposed. We will look for submissions that include
measures for the individual system components and end-to-end system
evaluation.
Also of interest are measures that evaluate user performance on specific
tasks.
We expect that the range of papers from both the first and this second
workshop
will provide sufficient material for us to pursue a special journal issue
dedicated to Embedded MT Systems.

IMPORTANT DATES
Intent to submit:                     Friday, Feb. 11, 2000
Paper submission deadline:            Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2000
Notification of acceptance of papers: Friday, March 3, 2000
Camera-ready papers due:              Monday, March 13, 2000

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Electronic submission of Intent to Submit should have the following subject
line:
"NAACL-ANLP2000 WORKSHOP - Intent to submit"
Body of message should include Identification Page information:
- title of submission
- names of all authors
- primary author name and email address, phone and fax
- presentation type preference (select one or more per system: demo,
  poster, or paper)
- keywords

Authors may submit short papers, full-length papers, poster presentations
and/or demos. For electronic submission, include the Identification Page
Information (see above) as a separate page from the paper itself. Reviewing
will be blind. No author information should be included with the main body of
the paper. Full paper submissions may be up to 5000 words in length, including
references.

Submissions for poster presentations and short papers may be up to 2000 words
in length, including references. Demo presentations are encouraged in
conjunction with papers or posters. For demo-only presentations,
submissions up
to two pages long should describe the system design and capabilities with
respect to (ii) above: an end-to-end process flow covering the system input,
any pre-MT processing, the MT component itself, any post-MT processing, and
the
system output.

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Both are available from the ANLP-NAACL2000 Conference web page:
http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/
Please send submissions and questions to: voss@arl.mil
Notification of receipt will be sent to the primary author.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Carol Van Ess-Dykema, US Dept. of Defense
Clare R. Voss, US Army Research Lab
Florence Reeder, MITRE Corp.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gary Coen, Boeing Phantom Works
Bob Frederking, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN
Inge Gorm Hansen and Henrik Selsoe Sorenson, Copenhagen Business School
Lori Levin, LTI, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Bill Ogden, CRL, NMSU
Kathi Taylor, Georgetown U.

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III.B.2.
Fr: M. Almulla <lmulla@sci.kuniv.edu.kw>
Re: ICCI2000: 2nd CFPapers

The 10th International Conference on Computing and Information
ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000
http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000
http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/
Second Call for Papers
Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000

ICCI2000 will provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners
to present new results in research, development, and applications in computing
and information. Since 1989, ICCI conferences have attracted participants from
over 40 different countries. ICCI '2000 will consist of five streams ranging
from theoretical computer science to applied software systems. It will provide
a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization and interdisciplinary information
exchange.

Stream A: Theory. Theory of Data and Logic. Information and Coding Theory.
          Algorithms. Theory of Computation.
Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn@opus.cs.mcgill.ca

Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and
          Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism. Cluster Computing.
Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya@ee.uwa.edu.au

Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software Engineering and
          CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems.
Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies. User Interfaces.
          Data Mining. Approximate Reasoning.
Chair: Susan Craw, smc@scms.rgu.ac.uk

Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the World Wide
          Web. Mobile Computing.
Chair: Richard Lai, lai@cs.latrobe.edu.au

Papers for any of the above streams are welcome. All submissions should be
limited to a maximum of 5,000 words (approximately 15 A4 pages), and will be
reviewed on the basis of technical correctness, quality, relevance,
originality, significance, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published in
the conference proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. Furthermore, a selected number of the accepted papers will be
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in the following journals:
* Journal of Computing and Information
* Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal

All paper submissions (by e-mail or in hardcopy) should be sent to the
Program
Committee Chair at the following address.

Xindong Wu (xwu@kais.mines.edu)
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois Street
Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
Phone: +1-303-273-3874
Fax: +1-303-273-3875

Important Dates
March 1, 2000        Paper submissions.
May 1, 2000          Acceptance notices.
July 1, 2000         Final camera-readies.
November 18-21, 2000 Conference.

Organization
General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj, Laurentian University, Canada.
E-mail: icci@nickel.laurentian.ca;
URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html

Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla, Kuwait University, Kuwait.
E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw;
URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/

Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA.
E-mail: xwu@kais.mines.edu;
URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/

General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at
Mohammed Almulla
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Kuwait University
P.O.Box 5969
Safat, 13060, Kuwait
Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624
Fax: (965) 481-7201
E-mail: almulla@mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

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III.B.3.
Fr: Andrew MacFarlane <andym@soi.city.ac.uk>
Re: IRSG 2000: 1st Announcement

First announcement
IRSG 2000
The IRSG 2000 Colloquium on IR Research will be held at
Sidney Sussex College
Cambridge, U.K.
5-7 April 2000

Keynote speaker: Donna Harman
Schedule to be announced in late February
Expected start 10.30 am 5th April, finish after lunch 7th April
Further details are available from the website:
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/colloq2000/
(also linked from the main IRSG website, http://www.irsg.eu.org/)
Registration is now open.
There are some funds for financial help for young European researchers to
attend the conference -- see the website.

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III.B.4.
Fr: Jeff Allen <jeff@elda.fr>
Re: LREC2000: CFParticipation

Call for Participation
2nd International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000)

Year 2000 marks the beginning of a new era for Human Language Technology and
Language Engineering. The European Commission and the US National Science
Foundation have announced Multilinguality as one of their main action points.
The 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000),
the second of a series of leading biennial events representing cross-sectoral
research and development in speech, text, multi-media, and multi-modal
processing, is committed to promoting the language engineering initiatives of
these and similar organizations.

LREC2000, scheduled to take place 29 May - 2 June 2000 in Athens, Greece, has
accepted nearly 300 papers for presentation at the main conference. About 10
pre- and post-conference satellite workshops will also take place. Many
commercial and research systems for speech and natural language processing
will
be demonstrated at the LREC2000 Exhibition in parallel with the conference
sessions. From 500 to 700 conference delegates are expected to attend this
conference, with half coming from the corporate and industrial sectors and
half
coming from the academic field.

For more information with regard to LREC2000, please contact:
LREC2000 Conference Secretariat
Institute for Language and Speech Processing
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi
Athens, Greece
Tel: (+301) 6800959
Fax: (+301) 6856794
E-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr
LREC2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html

For more information about the European Language Resources
Association (ELRA), please contact:
Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO
55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 PARIS, FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33
Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30
E-mail: choukri@elda.fr
ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html

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III.C.1.
Fr: Nancy M. Ide <ide@cs.vassar.edu>
Re: XML Version of Corpus Encoding Standard

XCES
XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard
BETA RELEASE
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES

We are pleased to announce the availability of a Beta release of XCES, which
instantiates the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for linguistic corpora
endorsed by the Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards
(EAGLES). XCES was developed by the Department of Computer Science, Vassar
College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS.

The current version includes a set of XSL stylesheets for cesDoc documents. We
are in the process of developing stylesheets for cesAna and cesAlign
documents.

We appreciate feedback on XCES. Please contact Nancy Ide
(ide@cs.vassar.edu) or
Patrice Bonhomme (bonhomme@loria.fr).

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IV. PROJECTS

IV.C.1.
Fr: Maria Zemankova, Maria <mzemanko@nsf.gov>
Re: NSF ITR: 2001 Agenda

The following document (fsitr2001) is now available from the NSF Online
Document System

Title: Fact Sheet: Information Technology Research
Type: General Information
Subtype: Computer/Information Sciences, NSF-wide

It may be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?fsitr2001

Excerpt:
The Administration has outlined the following emphases in fiscal 2001:
* Educating and Training a New Generation of Researchers
* Data Storage
* Data Management and Preservation
* Managing and Ensuring the Security and Privacy of Information
* Ubiquitous Computing and Wireless Networks
* Intelligent Machines and Networks of Robots
* Quantum Computation
* DNA Computers
* "No Surprise" Software
* Broadband Optical Networks

NSF Custom News Service
http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm
Please send questions and comments to webmaster@nsf.gov

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