IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.9, Issue 493

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
February 28, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 9
Issue 493

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II. JOBS
        1. Brown U.: Lead Research Programmer/Analyst: Scholarly
           Technology Group
        2. Rutgers U.: Information Technology & Informatics: LIS
III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Knowledge and Information Systems: 2:1 (2000)
     B. Meetings
        1. TOOLS USA 2000: CFContributions
        2. Dr. Eugene Garfield @ I-ASIS/SOASIS
        3. CIR-2000: 3rd Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference
        4. ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop
        5. RIAO 2000
        6. TSD 2000: 2nd Announcement & CFPapers
        7. Evaluation of Information Management Systems Workshop:
           2nd CFPapers 
        8. Search Results Workshop: 2nd CFPapers 
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. Senseval 2: CFInterest
 IV. PROJECTS
     C. Awards, Fellowships, Grants, & Scholarships
        1. Berners-Lee to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award

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II. JOBS

II.1.
Fr: Elli Mylonas <elli_mylonas@brown.edu> 
Re: Brown U.: Lead Research Programmer/Analyst: Scholarly
    Technology Group

POSITION AVAILABLE
Lead Research Programmer/Analyst 
Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University

This is a lead technical position in an applied R&D group that is pioneering
new tools and methodologies for the application of advanced information
technology to academic research, teaching, and communication. Principal
responsibilities include providing technical leadership, systems analysis, and
research programming.

Requirements: Ability to develop innovative solutions to academic research
problems, based on knowledge of emerging information technologies and a deep
understanding of the methodologies and needs of academic disciplines. Expert
knowledge of most of the following: SGML/XML techniques and tools, hypermedia
systems, object-oriented programming, relational or object-oriented databases,
information retrieval, digital library technologies, and research methods in
the humanities and social sciences. Should be able to conduct and publish
applied research and development in at least one of the preceding areas.
Degree
in CS or equivalent required. Advanced degree and research or teaching
experience in an academic discipline preferred. Willing to work
collaboratively
with students and colleagues.

The Scholarly Technology Group conducts applied research in the development
and
use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and
scholarly communication. It carries out this mission by exploring new
technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques, and
providing consulting and project management services to academic projects. STG
focuses on four related areas: hypermedia systems, SGML/XML textbase
development, interactive networked publishing, and the application of
computing
methods to academic scholarship. The director of STG is Allen Renear, and
chief
scientist is Steven J. DeRose. For more information about STG see:
http://www.stg.brown.edu.

For further information about this position contact: 
Elli Mylonas, STG Associate Director for Research and Projects, 
(401 863-7231 or Elli_Mylonas@Brown.Edu).

To apply send a cover letter and current c.v. to Human Resources, Box
1879/B00391, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912. 

[Human Resources posting at: 
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Human_Resources/hrweb/jobs/b00391.htm]
Brown University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer

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II.2.
Fr: Nicholas J. Belkin <nick@belkin.rutgers.edu> 
Re: Rutgers U.: Information Technology & Informatics: LIS

RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY 
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND LIBRARY STUDIES 
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

The Department of Library and Information Science is seeking a full-time,
tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2000. This individual will
have responsibility for assisting in the development of a new Information
Technology and Informatics undergraduate major for humanities and social
science students. This person will also teach in the Master of Library Service
program and have opportunities and responsibilities in other programmatic
areas
of the school.

The candidate must have a demonstrated expertise with using the latest
information technologies to teach courses and deliver information to students.
Candidates will also have a proven record of teaching excellence. S/he will be
expected to develop and maintain an active research program; to teach courses
in a variety of topics related to the library and information field, to advise
undergraduates, M.L.S. and Ph.D. students and to have a commitment to
professional service in library and information science. A Ph.D. in Library
and
Information Science, or a related field is required with a demonstrated record
in research and publication.

The appointment is for an academic year position with an expectation that
there
may be opportunities for summer teaching.

The Department is an ALA accredited institution that offers a nationally
ranked
MLS program.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Inquires and
applications should be sent to:
Kay E. Vandergrift, Associate Dean 
Chair, Search Committee 
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 
4 Huntington Street 
Rutgers, The State University 
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071 
Telephone: 732/932-7419 
Fax: 732/932-6916 
E-mail kvander@scils.rutgers.edu

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is an equal
opportunity/affirmative
action employer. Minorities, women, and persons with disabilities are
encouraged to apply.

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Xindong Wu <xwu@gauss.Mines.EDU> 
Re: Knowledge and Information Systems: 2:1 (2000) 
 
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal 
ISSN 0219-1377 
by Springer-Verlag
Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/ 
Volume 2, Number 1 (February 2000): Table of Contents 

Regular Papers
- Integrating Database and Dialogue Design by Klaus-Dieter Schewe and Bettina
  Schewe 
- Nesting and Defoliation of Index Expressions for Information Retrieval by
  B.C.M. Wondergem, P. van Bommel, and Th.P. van der Weide 
- Neural Network Learning Using Entropy Cycle by Geok See Ng, Khue Hiang Chan,
  Sevki S. Erdogan and Harcharan Singh 
- Database Integration Using Neural Networks: Implementation and Experiences
  by Wen-Syan Li, Chris Clifton, and Shu-Yao Liu 
- A Temporal Logic for Supporting Historical Databases by Shichao Zhang Short
  Papers
- FANNC: A Fast Adaptive Neural Network Classifier by Zhihua Zhou, Shifu Chen,
  Zhaoqian Chen 

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III.B.1.
Fr: TOOLS Conferences <announce@tools.com> 
Re: TOOLS USA 2000: CFContributions 

TOOLS USA 2000
"Software Serving Society"
Santa Barbara, California
July 30 - August 3, 2000
http://www.toolsconferences.com/usa

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (deadline 10 March 2000)

TOOLS is the major international conference series devoted to applications
object technology, component technology and other advanced approaches to
software development.

TOOLS USA 2000 will be held in Santa Barbara, CA at the Fess Parker Double
Tree
Resort, one of the most beautiful resorts on the West Coast and will continue
the commitment to excellence of earlier TOOLS conferences in Europe,
Australia,
Asia and the USA since 1989.The proceedings will be published world-wide by
the
IEEE Computer Society.

PAPERS 
TOOLS USA 2000 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of object and component
technology. All submitted papers will be refereed and assessed for technical
quality and usefulness to practitioners and applied researchers.

TOOLS USA particularly welcomes papers that present general findings based
upon
industrial experience. Such papers will be judged by the quality of their
contribution to industrial best-practice.

TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS AND PANELS 
Tutorials, workshops, and panels form an important part of the TOOLS
conferences. TOOLS USA 2000 is welcoming proposals for tutorials, workshops
and
panels on topics related to the theme of the conference.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE 
WEBSITE AT http://www.tools-conferences.com/usa

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III.B.2.
Fr: Theodore Allan Morris <morrista@email.uc.edu> 
Re: Dr. Eugene Garfield @ I-ASIS/SOASIS 

  
Indiana and Southern Ohio Chapters of the
American Society for Information Science 

Cordially invite you to attend: 

ASIS and Beyond: 
A Look into the Future of Information Professionals 
and Their Organization 

with special guest: 
Dr. Eugene Garfield, ASIS President 

Wednesday
2000.03.08
Rathskeller Restaurant
401 East Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202


Everyone is invited. 

$3.00 Members ~ $5.00 Guests 
(Dinner is optional but lenitive:)

Contact Matt Theobald 

Tentative Schedule: 

4:30 - 5:00 pm Begin program: social gathering & cocktails
5:00 - 6:30 pm Gene Garfield, ASIS President
6:30 pm Begin dinner (optional)
8:00 pm End dinner/program 
We look forward to seeing you March 8! 
For information & reservations. 
Driving Directions 

INDIANA 
Matt Theobald
Program Chair/Chair-Elect
Indiana Chapter
ASIS phone: 1-317-488-0455
e-mail: theobald@i-N.com 

OHIO 
Ted Morris
Program Chair/Chair-Elect
Southern Ohio Chapter
ASIS phone: 1-513-558-0177 
e-mail: Ted.Morris@uc.edu 

URL: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/IASIS/programs/03082000.html 

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III.B.3.
Fr: Margaret Graham <margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk> 
Re: CIR-2000: 3rd Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference 
 
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval
Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval
May 4-5 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom
Venue:
Old Ship Hotel
Kings Road
Brighton
East Sussex BN1 1NR

CIR moves to Brighton in 2000, with a new format - separate practitioner and
research tracks linked by common plenary sessions. As in previous years, it
aims to attract high-quality papers covering all aspects of image and video
retrieval from both the UK and overseas. The main themes of CIR-2000 are video
asset management, image indexing and metadata, and content-based image
retrieval. Our distinguished list of invited speakers includes:
Prof. Howard Besser, University of California at Los Angeles 
Dr Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center 
Dr Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park 
Prof. Mark Overmaars, University of Utrecht

Details of the conference, provisional programme, registration details and
booking form are available at: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00

Last day for registration at standard rates is 20 April 2000. Bookings after
that date will incur an administration surcharge.

Bed and breakfast accommodation has been arranged for delegates in the Old
Ship
Hotel at a special price. Delegates are responsible for booking their own
accommodation. (see web site for details)

Successful conferences were held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1998 and 1999. The
2000 event again aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the
area of image data management, to exchange information and gain some idea of
the significance of developments in related disciplines. It should be of
interest to researchers in fields as diverse as information retrieval,
database, computer vision and image processing, human visual perception and
interface design, as well as users and managers of image and video libraries.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
* John Eakins (co-chair), University of Northumbria at Newcastle 
* Peter Enser (co-chair), University of Brighton 
* Margaret Graham, University of Northumbria at Newcastle 
* David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 
* Paul Lewis, University of Southampton 
* Martin Nail, Library and Information Commission

CONFERENCE SPONSORS: 
* Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle 
* The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group 
* The Library and Information Commission 
* The Institute of Information Scientists 
* Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 
* The British Machine Vision Association

Margaret Graham 
Research and Development Manager 
Institute for Image Data Research 
University of Northumbria at Newcastle 
Newcastle upon Tyne 
NE1 8ST 
UK
Tel: +44 (0191) 227 4646; Fax: +44 (0191) 227 4637 
Email: margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk 
URL: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ 

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III.B.4.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ANLP-NAACL 2000 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP

This year, student members will be presenting their exciting work in progress
at the newly designed Student Research Workshop. If you've ever wanted to
provide encouragement and scientific guidance to upcoming researchers, this is
your opportunity. Registration for the workshop is included in your conference
registration fee, and we encourage everyone to attend and participate. The
workshop will take place on Sunday, April 30, and will run all day.

Our review committee has selected eight student papers for presentation at the
workshop based on their scholarship, originality, and technical merit. These
papers (listed below) cover many areas of NLP, including: 
- text planning and natural language generation 
- corpus-based and statistical text processing 
- information extraction and information retrieval 
- machine translation 
- robust parsing and syntactic error detection 
- word sense disambiguation and semantic annotation 
- discourse and aggregation

In addition to audience comments, a panel of established scientists, each an
expert in areas relevant to the student presentations, will be chosen to
provide the students with in-depth feedback and suggestions on future
directions, similar to the highly acclaimed Doctoral Consortia at other
conferences. This new format is intended to provide students with invaluable
exposure to outside perspectives on their work, and will also allow them to
put
their work into perspective based on feedback from the panel. If you would
like
to be considered to serve on the scientific panel, please contact the workshop
co-chairs at <naacl00@cs.rochester.edu>.

PLEASE NOTE: pre-registration for the workshop is strongly encouraged. 
Please indicate your desire to attend by checking the appropriate box on the
conference registration form. Registered participants will receive detailed
information about the schedule and location of the workshop at a later date. 

Up-to-date information is also available on the workshop home page 
<http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/naacl2000>.

We invite you to come to the Student Research Workshop to hear some excellent
presentations by the next generation of CL scientists, and to encourage these
and other students in their ongoing and future research!

Program Committee: 
Donna Byron, University of Rochester (Co-Chair) 
Peter Vanderheyden, University of Waterloo (Co-Chair) 
Mary Harper, Purdue Univeristy (Faculty Sponsor)

ACCEPTED PAPERS
"Experimenting with the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Planning" 
Hua Cheng, University of Edinburgh, Division of Informatics

"Efficient Parsing Strategies for Syntactic Analysis of Captions" 
Krzysztof Czuba, Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute

"Generating Text with a Theorem Prover" 
Ivan Garibay, University of Central Florida

"A Weighted Robust Parsing Approach to Semantic Annotation" 
Hatem Ghorbel and Vincenzo Pallota, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de 
Lausanne, LITH-MEDIA group

"Corpus-Based Syntactic Error Detection using Syntactic Patterns" 
K. Gojenola and M. Oronoz, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Informatika 
Fakultatea

"The use of Error Tags in ARTFL's Encyclopedie: Does good error 
identification lead to good error correction?" 
Derrick Higgins, University of Chicago, Department of Linguistics

"Creating Hierarchies for Natural Language Generation" 
Sarah Louise Oates, University of Brighton

"Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval" 
Mary Xiaoyong Wang, Ted Diamond, and Anne R. Diekema, Syracuse University, 
School of Information Studies

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III.B.5.
Fr: Donna Harman <donna.harman@nist.gov> 
Re: RIAO 2000

RIAO 2000
6th Conference on
"Content-Based Multimedia Information Access"
College de France
Paris, France
April 12-14, 2000

Organized by:
Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire 
(C.I.D., France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc 
(C.A.S.I.S., USA)

Under the sponsorship of :
the European Commission, 
the French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology, 
the DGA, the CEA, ELRA and ELSNET
With the collaboration of:
AII, ASIS, ESCA and AUF/Francil 

For the detailed Advance Program, please visit our Web site:
http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO 

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access".
The conference scope will range from the traditional processing of text
documents to the rapidly growing field of automatic indexing and retrieval of
images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of audio-visual and
multimedia information on various distribution venues, including the Net. The
conference is of interest for several scientific communities, including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Spoken Language
Processing,
Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000
will, thereby, serve as a forum for cross-discipline initiatives and
innovative
applications.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific progress, demonstrations of
prototypes
resulting from this research as well as the most innovative products now
appearing on the market.

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur = Computer-
Assisted
Information Retrieval) International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites
for the conference have been Grenoble, France (1985), M.I.T., Cambridge, Mass.
USA (1988), Barcelona, Spain (1991), Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y.,
USA (1994) and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997).

The Conference Advance Program is highlighted by contributions of authors from
26 countries. The program includes 2 invited speakers, 3 panel sessions, 3
plenary sessions, 8 poster sessions and 16 oral sessions. Among all sessions
are 146 papers (73 oral and 73 poster presentations), providing a unique
opportunity to present and discuss in depth the state-of-the-art in this
rapidly growing scientific and technological field.

There will also be many innovative application demonstrations presented by
companies from different countries. The application committee has already
selected 19 of them covering various applications such as crosslingual
English-Arabic Internet search, recognition of printed and handwritten texts,
television archives retrieval, sign language indexing, machine translation,
etc.

The RIAO 2000 Conference Advance Program includes sessions on the following
topics:
*Plenary sessions:
- Content-Based Information Access: from Text to Speech, Image and
  Multimodality 
- The Web and the Electronic Book 
- Radio & TV Broadcast Retrieval
* Oral and Poster sessions:
Document Processing:
- Navigation, User Adaptation & Document Creation 
- Combining Image & Language Information Retrieval:
- Internet & Cross-Language Information Retrieval 
- Information Retrieval Systems & Techniques 
- Interactive & Multimedia Information Retrieval 
- Information Retrieval Methods 
- Classification & Clustering 
- Filtering, NLP & Text Retrieval 
- Information Visualization Spoken Language and Audio Processing:
- Speech and Information Retrieval 
- Speech & Multimedia Processing Techniques 
- Musical Information Processing
Natural Language Processing:
- Multilingual Document Handling & Machine Translation 
- Terminology 
- NLP Techniques for Document Processing 
- NLP Methods
Image processing:
- Scanned Document Analysis 
- Image & Video Processing Techniques 
- Image Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval 
- Video Indexing, Browsing & Retrieval
- System Architecture, Usage and Applications
- Evaluation and Best Practice
* Panel sessions:
- Multilingual Information Access 
- Information Retrieval Evaluation Worldwide 
- Usage of Information Retrieval Systems

For more information on the program, conference location and registration,
please visit our Web site :
http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO
or contact us at:
- For all scientific and technical matters: riao2000@limsi.fr
- For all organizational and practical matters: cidcol@club-internet.fr

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III.B.6.
Fr: Robert Batusek <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz> 
Re: TSD 2000: 2nd Announcement & CFPapers 
 
TSD 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000)
Brno, Czech Republic
13-16 September 2000

TSD Series
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in
both
spoken and written language processing from the former East Block countries
and
their Western colleagues. Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published
by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series).

TOPICS
Topics of the TSD 2000 workshop will include (but are not limited to): text
corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense
disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing
issues,
especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multi-lingual issues, especially
multi-lingual dialogue systems; information retrieval and text/topic
summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition;
text-to-speech synthesis; dialogue systems; development of dialogue
strategies;
prosody in dialogues; user modeling; knowledge representation in relation to
dialogue systems; assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue; applied
systems and software.

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jelinek Frederick, USA (general chair) 
Hermansky Hynek, USA (executive chair) 
Baudoin Genevieve, France 
Cermak Frantisek, Czech Republic 
Ferencz Attila, Romania 
Hajicova Eva, Czech Republic 
Hanks Patrick, GB 
Kilgariff Adam, GB 
Kopecek Ivan, Czech Republic 
Kucera Karel, Czech Republic 
Matousek Vaclav, Czech Republic 
Moon Rosamund, GB 
Noeth Elmar, Germany 
Pala Karel, Czech Republic 
Pavesic Nikola, Slovenia 
Petkevic Vladimir, Czech Republic 
Psutka Josef, Czech Rep. 
Schukat-Talamazzini E.G., Germany 
Skrelin Pavel, Russia 
Vintsiuk Taras, Ukraine 
Wilks Yorick, GB

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
TSD 2000 is an international workshop with a limited number of participants
and
priority given to the active participants. The workshop program will include
oral presentations and poster/demonstration sessions with sufficient time for
discussions of the issues raised. The program will also involve short
communications, reports about ongoing projects and industrial presentations.
The latter types of contributions will not appear in the proceedings and the
deadline for their submission will be announced later. Social events including
a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal
interactions.

TSD 2000 is supported by International Speech Communication Association
(ISCA).
The organizing committee is applying for a grant from the European Committee
(High Level Scientific Conference). If the application is successful the
organizing committee would subsidize young researchers and participants from
East Europe significantly.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit extended abstracts not exceeding 1000 words by March 10,
2000 to the e-mail address:tsd2000@fi.muni.cz

Submission must also include the author(s) name, affiliation, address,
telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. Acceptance of the submissions
will be acknowledged by e-mail. Papers have to follow the Springer-Verlag
instructions for the authors for Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The
instructions can be found at the www address:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

IMPORTANT DATES
Preliminary registration and 
deadline for submission of extended abstracts:      March 10, 2000
Notification of acceptance sent to the authors:     April 30, 2000
Final papers (camera ready) and registration:       May 30, 2000
Workshop date:                                      September 13-16, 2000

The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings that
will be
made available to participants at the time of the workshop. The proceedings of
the last TSD workshop were published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence and we anticipate the same format for TSD
2000.

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop is English.

ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to:
Dana Komarkova 
TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics 
Masaryk University 
Botanická 68a 
CZ-602 00 Brno 
Czech Republic 
telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359 
fax: ++420 5 41 212 568 
e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz 
The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/

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III.B.7.
Fr: Jane Reid <jane@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> 
Re: Evaluation of Information Management Systems Workshop:
    2nd CFPapers 

One-day Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems
Queen Mary and Westfield College
University of London
15 September 2000

With a growing amount of electronic, multi-media data being accessed by an
increasing number and variety of end-users, it is becoming ever more important
to design and build effective information management systems which meet users'
needs. An essential part of this process is the identification of suitable
techniques and systems for particular users, or groups of users, in particular
information-seeking situations.

Considerable research has already been carried out into methods of evaluating
the effectiveness, efficiency and usability of information management systems.
However, there are still many theoretical and practical issues that remain
unsolved. Much more work is required in order to move towards the development
of a comprehensive framework for evaluation of information management systems.

This workshop is open to anyone with an interest in information management
system evaluation, including academic and industrial researchers and
practitioners working in the areas of information retrieval, library and
information science, databases, artificial intelligence, digital libraries,
the
Web, and other related areas.

Content of papers 
Papers discussing work in progress or completed work on evaluation of
information management systems are invited. Topics include, but are not
limited
to: 
* Problem issues in evaluation 
* Application of existing or traditional evaluation techniques 
* Novel evaluation techniques and methodologies 
* System-centred or user-centred evaluation, or integration of these two
  approaches 
* Theoretical or empirical evaluation, or integration of these two
  approaches 
* Evaluation of quality of results or quality of interaction, or
  integration of these two approaches 
* Evaluation of multi-media information management systems 
* Application of HCI principles and techniques to evaluation

Authors are invited to submit three copies of their paper, in English, to be
received by Friday 31 March 2000. Papers should be no more than 10 pages (of
A4) in length, and should be formatted according to Springer Verlag's
formatting guidelines for workshops in the electronic Workshops in Computing
(eWiC) series. The guidelines can be found at
http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/editors/submitting.cfm.

Papers will be refereed and, if accepted, will be published in the proceedings
of the workshop. There is also the possibility (currently under discussion) of
publishing the workshop proceedings as part of the eWiC series.

Papers should be sent to: 
Jane Reid 
Department of Computer Science 
Queen Mary and Westfield College 
University of London 
London 
E1 4NS 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533

Important dates 
Deadline for submission of papers:              Friday 31 March 2000 
Authors notified of program committee decision: Friday 9 June 2000 
Final submission of camera-ready copy:          Friday 21 July 2000

Organisers 
Workshop organisers: Jane Reid, Mounia Lalmas (QMW)
Program committee: Pia Borlund (Royal School of Library and Information 
Science, Denmark), Nathalie Denos (CLIPS IMAG, France), Mark Dunlop (Risoe 
National Laboratory, Denmark), Theo Huibers (KPMG Consulting, The 
Netherlands), Frances Johnson (Manchester Metropolitan University, 
England), Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, England)
Local organiser: Sue White (QMW)

Further information 
Further information can be found at http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/EIS.html.
Informal enquiries regarding the workshop can be directed to the workshop 
organisers: 
Jane Reid Mounia Lalmas 
Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science 
Queen Mary and Westfield College Queen Mary and Westfield College 
University of London University of London 
London London 
E1 4NS E1 4NS 
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5236 Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 5200 
Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 Fax: +44 (0)20 8980 6533 
e-mail: jane@dcs.qmw.ac.uk e-mail: mounia@dcs.qmw.ac.uk

This event in sponsored by the British Computer Society Information 
Retrieval Specialist Group, in association with the IEE Informatics 
Professional Group A4 (Artificial intelligence).

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III.B.8.
Fr: Einat Amitay <einat@ics.mq.edu.au> 
Re: Search Results Workshop: 2nd CFPapers 
 
Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link
May 30th 2000
San Antonio, Texas, USA
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/
A workshop held in conjunction with the
ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/)

Introduction 
The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new
hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the
context
of search results.

Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly.
Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form
of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the
presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop
will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion
about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure.

The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of
navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to
represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext
representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new
on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The
purpose of
this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly
for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results.
The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem:
- How texts are read online? 
- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people 
  who search for information? 
- How people navigate through textual search results? 
- What are the informative role and value of the newly created
  intermediate page? 
- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users? 
- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are
  perceived by readers? 
- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation
  within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used
  in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming
  of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns
  in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and
  positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and
  authors' frequent vocabulary choices).

The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as
Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and
psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen
hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will
address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of
search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext
representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text
representations
should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading
limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual
representation, etc. The term 'textual representation' relates to how a
document or a group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts,
coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last
updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on).
We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our
experience
about hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while
searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an
interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search
results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system.

The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results.
It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these
shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and
graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics
is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and
directions of investigations that are missing from it.

Topics
Issues of presentation 
- Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries,
  titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.) 
- Grouping of results 
- Labelling Groups of documents 
- Creating hierarchies of results 
- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results
Issues of results refinement 
- Similarities detected between results (represented in text) 
- Query refinement (textual options)
Issues of evaluation 
- How results are read 
- Does presentation change users navigation experience 
- Different users - different presentations? 
- Large scale studies 
- Task-specific studies
Issues of speed and efficiency 
Commercial applications

Important Dates 
Submission of papers -        5 April 2000 
Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000 
Workshop -                   30 May 2000

Submission 
Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted
electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are
preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or
MSWord
file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.

Workshop Organiser: 
Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO) 
einat@ics.mq.edu.au

Committee: 
Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University) 
Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft) 
Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University) 
Sue Dumais (Microsoft) 
Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington) 
Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL) 
Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems) 
Christina Haas (English, Kent State University) 
Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University) 
Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University) 
Vibhu Mittal (Just Research)

Einat Amitay 
einat@ics.mq.edu.au 
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat

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III.C.1.
Fr: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu> 
Re: Senseval 2: CFInterest 

SENSEVAL 2
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now beginning the
planning for SENSEVAL-2. As before, it will proceed as an ACL-SIGLEX activity.
The evaluation will take place over a year, concluding with a workshop in Pisa
in Spring 2001.

Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian. We are keen
to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would particularly like to
hear from people who are interested in setting up evaluations for the language
they work in.

If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the evaluation
should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the first SENSEVAL)
please
let me know and I will add you to the list.

Adam Kilgarriff 
SENSEVAL co-ordinator 
adam@itri.bton.ac.uk

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IV. PROJECTS

IV.C.1.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: Berners-Lee to Receive Paul Evan Peters Award 

It is with great pleasure that CNI joins EDUCAUSE and ARL in announcing that
Tim Berners-Lee will be the first recipient of the Paul Evan Peters award. The
award will be presented at the closing plenary session of the Spring CNI Task
Force meeting on March 28. 
--Joan Lippincott 

Berners-Lee Receives Paul Evan Peters Award for Founding World Wide Web
February 28, 2000 -- Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee will soon be honored as the
first recipient of the Paul Evan Peters Award, which recognizes notable,
lasting achievements in the use of networked communications to advance
scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Presented by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, sponsoring
organizations of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the award
honors the memory and accomplishments of Paul Evan Peters (1947-1996),
founding
executive director of CNI. CNI, with some 200 institutional members, promotes
the creation and use of networked information resources and services that
advance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

Berners-Lee is widely recognized as the creator of the World Wide Web, which
opened the Internet to the world. He is a uniquely appropriate choice as the
first recipient of the award: in the course of more than a decade he developed
a vision and a design for the Web and brought it to life, creating a
capability
that would revolutionize communication.

He designed the first version of the protocol for transmitting information on
the Web (Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), the first version of Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML), devised the method for addressing documents on the Web
(later known as Universal Resource Locators, or URLs), and developed the first
Web server and the first Web browser, which was also an editor. His creation
has changed the way people communicate and work together worldwide.

In his current role as director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
Berners-Lee continues to encourage the development of open specifications to
enhance the functionality of the Web as a mode of free expression and global
communication. W3C, a non-profit, member-sponsored organization, is
headquartered at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), at the National
Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and
Keio University in Japan. Berners-Lee serves as principal research
scientist at
MIT/LCS, which he joined in 1994.

Berners-Lee received the Kilby Foundation's Young Innovator of the Year award
for 1995. In 1998 he was named one of 29 MacArthur Fellows, receiving $270,000
in this unrestricted "genius grant" program. He is the author of Weaving the
Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its
Inventor. Berners-Lee will accept the Paul Evan Peters Award and give the
award
address as the closing plenary presentation at the CNI Spring Task Force
meeting in Washington, D.C., on March 28. The award will be presented by
Clifford A. Lynch, executive director of CNI, and Brian L. Hawkins, president 
of EDUCAUSE.

"It's rare that we have an opportunity to honor someone who has had such a
powerful and multifaceted impact, not just within the academic world but on
our
society as a whole," commented Hawkins. "Tim's creativity and his
commitment to
developing the Web as a vehicle for open communication are 
remarkable."

Speaking from the perspective of the library community, ARL Executive Director
Duane E. Webster noted that "Tim Berners-Lee, like Paul Peters, recognized the
potential of the Internet for access to content at a time when the Net was
primarily a communications channel. His vision of establishing a web of links
between and among discrete pieces of information, allowing researchers to
create and share new knowledge, has had a profound and long-lasting impact on
scholarship."

Paul Evan Peters was a visionary and a coalition builder in higher education
and scholarly communication, providing new insights and direction to the world
of networked information for librarians, technologists, and publishers. He was
named one of the 100 most important leaders in 20th century librarianship in
the December 1999 issue of American Libraries magazine, published by the
American Library Association.

"My friend Paul would have been absolutely delighted to know that Tim had been
selected as the first recipient of this award," observed Lynch. "The Web has
had a transforming effect on scholarship and on our society as a whole; it has
created entire new industries. Tim's long-standing commitment not only to
furthering the standards and technologies underlying the Web, but to
understanding and shaping the broader social implications make him an
extraordinary figure in the networked information age."

The award program established in his memory is supported by an endowment from
ARL, EDUCAUSE, Microsoft Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.

The mission of the Association of Research Libraries is to shape and influence
forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly
communication.

EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help
shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the
introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in
teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.

For more information about Paul Evan Peters and this award as well as its
sponsoring organizations see http://www.educause.edu/awards/pep/pep.html.

CONTACT: 
Karen McBride, EDUCAUSE 
303-939-0313 
kmcbride@educause.edu

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