IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.10, Issue 494

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

IRLIST Digest                                       ISSN 1064-6965
March 6, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 10
Issue 494

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III. NOTICES
     A. Publications
        1. Special Issue of Information Research
     B. Meetings
        1. Libraries in the Digital Age
        2. [NET00] Networking 2000
        3. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems
        4. TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction
        5. Defining Information Architecture
        6. AAAI-2000: AI for Web Search Workshop
        7. TSD 2000: Submission Deadline March 10
        8. CoopIS'2000
        9. Americas Conference On Information Systems:
           Minitrack on Data Mining and IR
     C. Miscellaneous
        1. IR-L Moves
        2. jake-0.5

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III. NOTICES

III.A.1.
Fr: Amanda Spink <spink@ist.psu.edu> 
Re: Special Issue of Information Research 

A special issue of Information Research on "Web Research" is scheduled for
publication in October. The issue will be edited by Dr. Amanda Spink - The
Pennsylvania State University (Regional Editor for North America) and Dr.
Dietmar Wolfram from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Anyone interested in submitting a paper should contact Dr.Spink
(spink@ist.psu.edu) or Dr. Wolfram (dwolfram@csd.uwm.edu) as soon as
possible,with a view to submitting a final version of their paper by 
1st June 2000.

Information Research can be found at: 
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/ircont.html
Professor Tom Wilson 
Editor, Information Research

Professor Tom Wilson & 
Editor, Information Research & 
Department of Information Studies & 
University of Sheffield & 
Sheffield S10 2TN, UK & 
Tel: +44-114-222-2642 & 
Fax: +44-114-278-0300 & 
e-mail: t.d.wilson@shef.ac.uk & 

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III.B.1.
Fr: Tefko Saracevic <tefko@scils.rutgers.edu> 
Re: Libraries in the Digital Age 

ANNOUNCEMENT AND INVITATION
You are cordially invited to participate in the:

Annual conference and course: LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA)
Theme 2000:
POSITIONING LIBRARIES ON THE INTERNET AND USING INTERNET IN LIBRARIES
25-28 May, 2000

To be held at the:
Inter-University Centre (http://www.hr/iuc\)
Dubrovnik, Croatia. 

Dubrovnik, Croatia http://dubrovnik.laus.hr/

Course web site: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida
Course email: lida@ffzg.hr.

The general aim of the conference and course, this year and in the years to
come, is to address the changing and challenging environment for libraries and
information systems and services in the digital age, with an emphasis on
examining contemporary problems, advances and solutions. Each year a different
and ‘hot’ theme will be addressed. This year the theme of the course revolves
on the complex relation between the Internet and libraries.

The course is oriented toward professionals and researchers in librarianship,
information science, and informatics, as well as from other disciplines
interested in this topic. In particular, the course will be useful for
practicing librarians and information scientists, for students of library and
information science, and for system administrators, system operators, web page
managers, and related personnel in library and information systems.

The program will bring together well-known experts from Europe and the U.S.
for
lectures, discussions, and demonstrations. Among others, the topics covered
will include concepts, methods, techniques, and research advances related to a
variety of aspects of digital libraries; selection, organization and
representation of digital resources; information networks; networked
cooperation; services; access, users, and use; and the role and use of the
Internet. The details of the program and information about lecturers can be
found on the conference web page: http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/lida

Course directors:
Tatjana Aparac, Ph.D 
Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, 
University of Zagreb,
taparac@ffzg.hr http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/taparac.htm

and

Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University
tefko@scils.rutgers.edu http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html

Tefko Saracevic, Ph.D. 
Professor II 
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies 
Rutgers University 
4 Huntington Street 
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 U.S.A. 
Tel.: (732)932-8017 Fax: (732)932-2644 
Email: tefko@scils.rutgers.edu 
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/tefko.html 

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III.B.2.
Fr: Joan K Lippincott <joan@cni.org> 
Re: [NET00] Networking 2000

"Policy Issues for the New Millennium"
EDUCAUSE Networking 2000
March 30-31, 2000
Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/

REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE!
Early registration ends Monday, March 6, 2000

Networking 2000 is the premier conference on federal policy affecting
networking and information technology for higher education. Presentations and
discussion focus on whether the 2000 elections will harbor any changes in
federal IT policy, global approaches to deploying advanced networks, the
public
policy impact of applications, higher education's role in relation to the
Internet and lifelong learning, industry perspectives on technology policy,
and
updates on the hottest topics in Washington telecommunications and Internet
policy. Space is limited, so register soon. Conference fees are $275 for
registrations postmarked on or before March 6 and $300 for registrations
received after March 6. The online registration form is available at: 
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/

SPEAKERS 
Our speakers for this year's conference include:
-- Bob Goodlatte, U.S. House of Representatives (R-Virginia) 
-- Mike McCurry, cochair, iAdvance 
-- Rory O'Connor, founding editor, National Journal's Technology Daily 
-- Walter Baer, RAND Corporation 
-- Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology 
-- George Brett, NLANR 
-- Robert Cannon, FCC (invited) 
-- Jeri Clausing, N.Y. Times - Cybertimes 
-- Dewayne Hendricks, CEO, Dandin Group 
-- Mary Kratz, UCAID

SCHEDULE INFORMATION 
The meeting will kick off with a gala reception aboard the Odyssey III on
Wednesday evening (boarding starts at 6 p.m., sailing starts at 7 p.m. and
ends
at 10 p.m.).The meeting will be held all day Thursday and Friday morning. 

For the complete and up-to-date schedule, see: 
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/

Networking 2000 participants are also encouraged to visit their congressional
representatives while in Washington. Capitol Hill visits are being scheduled
for Wednesday and Thursday, March 29-30, subject to availability of your
federal representative and their staff. Please see the registration form to
sign up.

MEETING LOCATION 
Renaissance Hotel 
999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, DC 
800-468-3571 or 202-898-9000 
Fax: 202-789-4213 
http://www.renaissancehotels.com/WASRB/

SPONSORS: 
-- EDUCAUSE 
-- American Library Association 
-- Association of Research Libraries 
-- Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation 
-- Coalition for Networked Information 
-- Computing Research Association 
-- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking 
-- University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
Contact EDUCAUSE Customer Service at 303-449-4430 or info@educause.edu, or see
our Web site at: http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/

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III.B.3.
Fr: Peter Brusilovsky <plb@cs.cmu.edu> 
Re: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems 

Call for Papers
International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based
Systems (AH2000)
(sponsored by the European Commission: High Level Scientific Conference
Program)
28-30 August 2000
ITC/IRST
Trento, ITALY
http://AH2000.itc.it/

Web-based application systems, as well as other complex hypermedia systems
with
a large variety of users, suffer from an inability to satisfy heterogeneous
needs. A Web course presents the same static explanation of a concept to
students with widely differing knowledge of the subject. A Web bookstore
offers
the same selection of bestsellers to customers with different reading
preferences. A Web museum offers the same "guided tour" and the same narration
to visitors with very different goals and interests. A remedy for the negative
effects of the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach is to enhance a
system's ability to adapt its own behavior to the goals, tasks, interests, and
other features of individual users. Starting in the 1990s, many research teams
began to investigate ways of modelling features of the users of hypermedia
systems. This has led to a number of interesting adaptation techniques and
adaptive hypermedia systems. The Web, with its clear demand for
personalization, served as a real booster for this research area, providing
both a challenge and an attractive platform. 

The AH2000 Conference continues from a series of successful workshops on the
topic of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web applications. It will provide a
forum in which researchers and practitioners with different backgrounds can
exchange their complementary insights. The conference aims to promote a
cross-fertilisation of ideas and highlight the prospects for future
collaboration.

Conference Scope
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: 
- adaptive hypermedia systems and techniques 
- information filtering in the WWW context 
- adaptive IR systems with Web or hypermedia interfaces 
- intelligent tutoring systems on the WWW 
- Web recommender systems 
- personalized Web sites and services 
- adaptive Web-based collaboration systems 
- adaptive natural language generation in hypermedia and Web contexts 
- adaptive navigation support in large hyperspaces 
- adaptive presentation of non-textual content 
- empirical studies of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based
  systems 
- Web data mining for personalization and adaptivity 
- personalization and adaptivity in E-commerce 
- user modeling in Web-based applications 
- intelligent Web agents for personalization and adaptivity 
- distributed adaptive applications on the WWW 
- acquisition and management of user models on the WWW 
- security and privacy aspects of user models on the WWW 
- methods, techniques, and tools for user modeling 
- Web metadata as a basis for user modeling 
- dealing with changing interests and preferences of Web users 
- user interfaces for all 
- usability aspects of adaptivity 
- Web servers for user models/profiles

Conference Format
The conference will run for three full days. It will include paper and poster
sessions, invited talks and a doctoral consortium. The doctoral consortium
will
offer PhD students a chance to discuss their plans and the intermediate
results
of their research with more experienced participants (for further information,
see the doctoral consortium). A proper space will be set up for demos of
complete or experimental systems, both academical and industrial. The social
program will include a welcome reception and a conference dinner.

Proceedings and Submissions
We invite three kinds of contributions: full papers, short papers, and
doctoral
consortium papers. Full and short papers should describe original and
unpublished research work on adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based
systems. Doctoral consortium papers could be submitted by doctoral students
and
should describe their research related to the conference topics.
Conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag LNCS series
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Please follow the publishers
instructions that are available at 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html to prepare your original
contributions. The size of original submissions is limited to 10 pages for
full
papers, 3 pages for short papers, and 5 pages for doctoral consortium papers.
All original submissions must be submitted via the Web as PDF, RTF, or
postscript files. Each contribution should be submitted in a separate e-mail
letter. The letter should include the URL of the contribution and the
following
data in plain ASCII: the title, author's name(s), affiliation, e-mail, home
page URL, mailing address, phone number, and abstract, and up to five
keywords.
The subject of the e-mail letter should be "AH2000 paper submission". Full and
short paper submissions should be sent to to the Program Chair
(ah2000-papers@itc.it). Doctoral consortium paper submissions should be
sent to
the Doctoral Consortium Chairs (ah2000-dc@itc.it). If you are not able to
place
your submission on the Web, please, contact the respective chairs in advance.

Upon acceptance of a contribution, the author(s) will be asked to transfer the
copyright to the publisher. The LNCS series is now published both as printed
books and in full-text electronic form. For each accepted paper the publisher
therefore will need both hard copy printed pages and the source files as
specified in http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The
instructions for
sending final contributions will be provided separately.

Grants
The European Commission sponsors the conference (High Level Scientific 
Conference Program) and through IRST offers grants for two kind of attendees:
- young researchers (< 35 years old), who are nationals of a Member 
State or an Associated State of European Union and active inside a 
Member State or an Associated State
- researchers, who are nationals of a Member State or an Associated 
State of European Union and active outside a Member State or an Associated
State

The grants cover subsistence (hotel and lunches) and participation fees. Two
pages of presentation of applicants' on-going work is requested and should be
sent to ah2000-grants@itc.it. Information about the grant application and
eligibility could be found on the conference home page http://AH2000.itc.it/.
Please, contact Local Organization Chair (ah2000-grants@itc.it) if you have
any
questions about grants.

Invited Speakers
Elisabeth Andre (DFKI, Germany) 
Fiorella DeRosis (University of Bary, Italy) 
Alfred Kobsa (GMD, Germany) 
Michael Pazzani (University of California, Irvine, USA)

Conference Committees
General Chair 
Oliviero Stock (IRST Trento, Italy)
Program Chair 
Peter Brusilovsky (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Important Dates
- Submission of contributions: 15 March 2000 
- Submission of grant application: 30 March 2000 
- Notification of grant assignment: 25 April 2000 
- Notification of paper acceptance: 25 April 2000 
- Submission of final contributions: 25 May 2000 
- Conference: 28-30 August 2000

Previous Meetings
The International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based
Systems will join and continue two successful workshop series: the
Workshops on
Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia and the Workshops on Adaptive Systems and
User Modeling on the World Wide Web. Previous workshops in these series
include:

Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on WWW at 8th
International Word Wide Web Conference and 7-th International Conference on
User Modeling, UM'99 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/asum99/)

Second Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia at Ninth ACM
International
Hypertext Conference, Hypertext'98 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah98/)

Workshop "Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web" at 6th
International Conference on User Modeling, UM'97
(http://zeus.gmd.de/UM97/index.html)

Workshop "Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia" at 4th International
Conference on
User Modeling, UM'94 (http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah94/)

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III.B.4.
Fr: Miguel A. Alonso Pardo <alonso@dc.fi.udc.es> 
Re: TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction
 
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
TAPD 2000
2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'
September 19-21 2000
Vigo, Spain
Sponsored by University of Vigo
with the support of
Caixa Vigo e Ourense
http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in Vigo
(Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to SEPLN 2000
(http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish
Society
for Natural Language Processing.

MOTIVATIONS:
Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly redundant
computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language Processing, Logic
Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract Interpretation, and related to
phenomena such as ambiguity, non-determinism or domain ordering.

Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set
rewriting,
Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed whose key idea is to
keep traces of computations to achieve computation sharing and loop detection.
Tabulation also offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof
strategies and to represent ambiguity by shared structures.

The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these different
approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation and tabular systems
to potential users in different application areas such as natural language
processing, picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete deduction
techniques.

TOPICS (not exclusive):
-- Tabulation Techniques: 
Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, 
Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms 
-- Applications: 
Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, 
Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving 
-- Static Analysis: 
Improving tabular evaluation 
-- Parsing or resolution strategies. 
-- Efficiency issues: 
Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing), 
Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption). 
-- Shared structures (parse or proof forest): 
Formal analysis, representation and processing.

WORKSHOP FORMAT: 
The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual
presentations of the accepted contributions as well as group discussions.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: 
Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position paper or
abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to be presented.
Due
to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing will be handled
exclusively
electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submission should
include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail.

The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren@cs.sunysb.edu) in
gziped encoded postscript.

SCHEDULE:
Submission of contributions: April 28, 2000 
Notification of acceptance:  June 1, 2000 
Final versions due:          June 30, 2000

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR:
David S. Warren -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US

PUBLICATION:
Papers accepted by the Program Committee must be presented at the conference
and will appear in a proceedings volume. The format for camera-ready
manuscripts will be available from the web page of the event.

LOCATION:
Auditorio del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense 
Marques de Valladares 
Vigo, Spain

FURTHER INFORMATION:
For further details consult http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/, or contact 
TAPD'2000 Secretariat 
Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática 
Campus as Lagoas, s/n 
32004 Ourense 
Spain
E-mail: tapd-secret@ei.uvigo.es 
Fax: +34 988 387001

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III.B.5.
Fr: Richard Hill <rhill@asis.org> 
Re: Defining Information Architecture 

Defining Information Architecture
Boston, Massachusetts
April 7-9, 2000
Sponsored by ASIS

DEADLILNE FOR DISCOUNT ON REGISTRATION IS MARCH 6. 
Register online at: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/index.html
"Defining Information Architecture" Boston, April 7-9, 2000 sponsored by the
American Society for Information Science 
(FAQ's below)
* Explore definitions for Information Architecture with a panel of leading
thinkers and practitioners. 
* Understand the types of expertise that should and will have an impact on
Information Architecture. 
* Learn about the role that the Information Architect plays in different
settings. 
* Meet your colleagues and build a broader community of information
architects.

The American Society for Information Science has assembled a compelling
list of
speakers (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/speakers.html)
representing
many relevant perspectives: Anthropology * Data Modeling 
* Graphic Design * Meta-Data * Human Computer Interaction * Information 
Design * Information Retrieval * Interface Design * Markup Languages 
* Librarianship * Technical Communications * Usability Engineering
Registration is $450 before 3/6/00, $550 after 3/6/00 (discounted for ASIS
members), and includes continental breakfast and lunch. Attendance is limited,
so please register soon. 

Visit http://www.asis.org/Conferences/Summit2000/index.html 

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions and Answers)
Q: Who is this conference intended for? 
A: "Defining Information Architecture" will bring together practicing
information architects (IAs), academics who see value in this emerging field,
and students who are interested in becoming IAs. Some sample titles of those
already registered include: Electronic Media Manager; Sr. Programmer Analyst;
User Experience Architect; Knowledge Management Analyst; and Goddess of
Information Architecture Registered attendees hail from such organizations as:
AT&T; Bigstep.com; Compaq; DuPont; Harvard School of Design; iXL; Microsoft;
Mitre; Polaroid; and Smithkline Beecham.

Q: Many of the speakers aren't practicing IAs; why not? 
A: It's important to acknowledge that many established disciplines should
contribute to the definition of Information Architecture And we want to probe
how these different disciplines relate to Information Architecture, uncovering
how, for example, principles of ethnography or usability engineering might
improve to Information Architecture practice.

Q: There aren't session titles listed in the program; why not? 
A: As Information Architecture is a relatively new field, a conventional
conference replete with standard, loosely-related presentations doesn't fill
the bill. Instead, this is the right time to answer questions that haven't
been
asked before. That's why we've asked speakers to address a common set of
issues
designed to future discussion and definition of Information Architecture in a
spontaneous, flexible, and thought-provoking manner. It's an experimental
approach, but one we feel makes sense for a young and emerging field.

Q: If this conference is experimental, then why should I attend? 
A: It's your chance to participate in an important discussion, and help define
your field. And the conference will make you a better IA by arming you with a
broader perspective on the field, a better set vocabulary to discuss it, and a
stronger case to make to your colleagues who may not understand the value of
Information Architecture.

Q: What sorts of practical knowledge will I get from attending? 
A: Although there are case studies on the program, this conference is not
focused on how to practice Information Architecture; instead, we'll address
what it is and who should be doing it. We're confident that the "how" aspects
of Information Architecture will be addressed in more detail through your
informal discussions with others at the conference, through the expanded
personal networks you will develop through participation, and at future
conferences.

Q: I'm already an IA; what will I get out of attending? 
A: Besides some new ideas, you'll be getting context: context for your own
work
as an IA, and communal context that will come from meeting your peer group for
perhaps the first time. Additionally, you will have a chance to take
leadership
in defining and guiding many newcomers to the field who will be at this
conference.

Q: I'm a student; what will I get out of attending? 
A: You'll be better prepared to discuss the field you're considering entering,
and through meeting practicing IAs will greatly extend your network of
professional contacts. 

Richard Hill 
American Society for Information Science 
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 
Silver Spring, MD 20910 
(301) 495-0900 
FAX: (301) 495-0810 
http://www.asis.org

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III.B.6.
Fr: Steve Lawerence <lawrence@research.nj.nec.com> 
Re: AAAI-2000: AI for Web Search Workshop 

Call for Papers/Participation
AAAI-2000 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Web Search
http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html
July 30, 2000, Austin, TX
Paper submission deadline: 10 March 2000

The World Wide Web offers an immense diversity of knowledge; however, the
Web's
size, rapid growth, high diversity, and erratic organization often make it
difficult to find information. AI techniques can be used for organizing,
searching, and classifying information on the Web. A broad range of AI
techniques are relevant including machine learning, autonomous agents, expert
systems, knowledge representation, data mining, and natural language
processing.

Topics:
Web keyword search 
- Topical clustering and classification of search results 
- Learning to suggest keywords 
- Ranking of results
Improving search and browsing by learning from users 
- Using access information (e.g. collaborative filtering) 
- Personalized search and browsing
Understanding Web structure and organization 
- Link analysis 
- Web site/page clustering 
- Computational complexity issues 
- Can optimal browsing be learned?
Web page features 
- Feature extraction and knowledge representation for search 
- Use of Web page metadata

Attendance:
The workshop will be of interest to academics, graduate students, and industry
researchers/engineers in the areas described above.

Format:
There will be invited speakers, and regular submitted paper presentations, and
above all, extensive interactions and discussions among participants.
Extensive
discussions that we plan will encourage the right kind of interactive
atmosphere during the workshop.

Submissions from all disciplines related to using AI to find information on
the
Web are welcome. Speakers will be topically grouped, and presentations will be
followed by a moderated discussion on each topic. In a final plenary session,
directions for joint post-workshop efforts will be discussed. An
opportunity to
give demonstrations of research prototypes and techniques may be provided.

To encourage discussions, accepted contributions and discussion topics will be
published on the Web at http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html before the
workshop. As a consequence, the background of all participants will be known
beforehand, so that presentations and discussions can focus on the technical
questions. Participants will be encouraged to prepare questions for speakers.

Submissions:
Submissions should be between one and six pages and be formatted using the
standard AAAI guidelines. Submissions of brief, concise papers presenting
novel
ideas are specifically encouraged. Papers should be submitted
electronically in
Postscript or PDF format (preferably as a MIME attachment to an ASCII cover
letter) via e-mail to aaai2000@archive.org.

Dates:
10 March 2000: Submissions due to aaai2000@archive.org. 
24 March 2000: Notification e-mails sent. 
26 April 2000: Camera ready papers due. 
30 July 2000: Workshop takes place.

Additional Information:
See http://archive.org/kurt/aaai2000.html for additional details. Also see the
AAAI 2000 homepage:
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2000/aaai-iaai2000.html

Steve Lawrence - http://www.neci.nec.com/~lawrence/ 
http://csindex.com/ - 250,000+ computer science papers

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III.B.7.
Fr: Robert Batusek <xbatusek@informatics.muni.cz> 
Re: TSD 2000: Submission Deadline March 10

TSD 2000 - 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.

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 a 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/
 
Robert Batusek Ph. D. student 
xbatusek@fi.muni.cz Faculty of Informatics 
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xbatusek Masaryk University Brno 

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III.B.8.
Fr: carmel@il.ibm.com 
Re: CoopIS'2000 

Call for Papers - CoopIS'2000
Fifth IFCIS International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems
In Cooperation with VLDB'2000
Neptune Hotel
Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/coopis2000.html

What is CoopIS ?
CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation. 
Cooperation among systems has gained substantial importance in recent years:
electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, and the middleware paradigm are just
some examples of this area. Several levels of cooperation are present:
* The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of cooperation among
systems. 
* The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines which provide concepts and
techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, 
distributed databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce,
human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and
workflow systems. 
* The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers, that are
drawn
from the stature and the tradition of these conference series, and has a
leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems
area.
Opportunities for informal meetings between the conference delegates will be
enhanced with a series of social events, including pre-conference exploration
of Eilat, in-conference tour of the surrounding desert, and post-conference
excursion that will enable easy connection for those continuing to
VLDB'2000 in
Cairo.

CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference
organized by the International Foundation on 
Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the 
International Foundation in Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and the 
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the
erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase 
Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems 
(CoopIS & ICIS).

The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling port,
combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. 
Sixty minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the wondrous
scenery of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains and is a
paradise for sea-sports fans.

Important dates:
Submission Intention Notice Deadline March 13,2000 
Paper Submission Deadline            March 27, 2000 
Acceptance Notification              May 29, 2000 
Final Version Due                    June 26, 2000 
Early registration deadline          July 31, 2000 
The Conference                       September 6-8, 2000

Who should submit papers ?
Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and industrial
experience papers. The category should be clearly identified. Regular research
papers should contain original research concepts and results in one or more
technologies relevant to cooperative information systems. Industrial
experience
papers should describe technical or key business issues and lessons learned in
developing, applying, and deploying relevant technologies, highlighting
aspects
of cooperation and interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than
5000 words. 

Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under consideration by
another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for publication,
after appropriate expansion and review, in the International Journal of
Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes will be information
services in the 21st century, and we particularly welcome papers related to
this theme. We also encourage the submission of all topics related to
cooperative information systems, including (but not limited to) the following:
* Agent Technology 
* Business Intelligence Frameworks 
* Business Process Modeling 
* Communication infrastructure for collaboration 
* Computer-supported Cooperative work 
* Cooperative Information System Architectures 
* Cooperative Information System foundations 
* Cooperative Transactions 
* Cooperative Transactions 
* Digital Libraries 
* Distributed Problem Solving 
* Distributed GIS 
* Distributed Multimedia Systems 
* Distributed Object Management 
* Distributed Warehousing and mining 
* Electronic Commerce 
* Enterprise Knowledge management 
* Event Based Systems 
* Engineering Distributed systems 
* Federated and Multi-database systems 
* Human-Computer Interaction for cooperation 
* Information Filtering 
* Information Resource Discovery 
* Information Retrieval 
* Information, Data and knowledge Modeling 
* Integration and Interoperability 
* Legacy Data Access and Management 
* Mediators, Wrappers 
* Middleware Technology 
* Meta-data and Repositories 
* Multi-agent Systems 
* Mobile Computing for Cooperation 
* Organizational Aspects of Cooperative 
* Semantic Interoperability Systems (including virtual organizations) 
* Web-based Information Systems 
* Web-based Services 
* Workflow Systems

Papers Submission
Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PD files) to
both program chairs. A pre-submission intention notice to both program chairs
with the paper's authors, title, and classification is requested.

The CoopIS'2000 team:
General Chairs 
Avigdor Gal 
Rutgers University, USA 
E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu

Michele Missikoff 
IASI-CNR, Italy 
E-mail: missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it

David Carmel 
Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL 
E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com 
Phone: 972-4-8296223, Fax: 972-4-8296114 
Address: IBM, Haifa Research Lab, Matam, Haifa 31905, Israel 

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III.B.9.
Fr: Fred Gey <gey@ucdata.Berkeley.EDU> 
Re: Americas Conference On Information Systems:
    Minitrack on Data Mining and IR
 
AMCIS 2000
Americas Conference on Information Systems
Long Beach, California
August 10th - 13th, 2000
Call for Papers for the Mini Track
"Data Mining and Information Retrieval in Business"

With the advent of new technologies and business practices, including the
explosion of electronic commerce and the trend toward mass personalization,
businesses are searching for new ways to make sense of massive, and
increasing,
amounts of data. Data mining allows businesses to ascertain patterns in data
that indicate consumer buying habits, competitor strategies, credit
worthiness,
incidence of fraud, and other information of strategic importance. This
mini-track seeks to provide a forum for researchers to share investigations
and
ideas in the diverse field of data mining. Current research in data mining
explores areas related to algorithm development and performance, the data
mining process, and the impact of data mining on business practices, among
others. Information Retrieval (IR) algorithms support computerized search of
large document collections (i.e., millions of documents) to retrieve small
subsets relevant to the user’s information needs. Examples are book searching
in electronic bookstores and auctions, digital library catalogues and Internet
search engines. IR Application areas include: cross language retrieval,
speech/broadcast retrieval, text categorization, and text summarization. IR
algorithms are subject to objective testing and evaluation for hundreds of
queries on millions of documents (the TREC set and conferences, for example).

Possible Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Mining of multimedia data, including image, video and sound data 
New/hybrid algorithms for data mining 
Performance evaluation of data mining methods 
Aligning data mining with task objectives and business strategy 
The impact of data mining on e-commerce strategies 
Mining of internet-based data 
Domain- and problem-specific data mining 
Data mining applications in industry 
Exploring the data mining process, including issues of data selection,
cleaning
and preprocessing, and interpretation of results 
Information Retrieval algorithms for electronic commerce and other
applications

Classifying the WWW with text categorization and clustering 
Analyzing WWW query logs for persistent patterns and query clusters 
Non-English language and cross-language information retrieval 
Text summarization and gisting

Mini Track Co-Chairs
William E. Spangler (*)
West Virginia University
(304) 293-7933
wspangle@wvu.edu
H. Michael Chung
California State University, Long Beach
(562)985-7691
hmchung@csulb.edu
Fredric C. Gey
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 642-6571
gey@ucdata.berkeley.edu

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III.C.1.
Fr: Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.gusack@ucop.edu>
Re: IR-L Moves

The IR-L Digest will be moving to CNI (Coalition for Networked Information)
sometime this month. As soon as everything is in place, I will send out a
change of address notice. My current address (nancy.gusack@ucop.edu) will be
gone after Monday, March 13. My new IR-L address after that date will be
nancy@cni.org.

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III.C.2.
Fr: Daniel Chudnov <daniel.chudnov@yale.edu> 
Re: jake-0.5 

jake (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) is a reference source which
makes finding, managing, and linking online resources easier for library
patrons and staff. It does so by managing online resource metadata with a
database union list, title authority control, linking tools, and a local
holdings layer.

New in jake-0.5:
* subjects -- 65% of x-ref'd titles have at least one of dewey, lc, or lcsh
subject/class (Ben Steinberg)
* localization -- now several ways exist to create local jake search pages
that
can (optionally) look for local holdings information
* database lists with jakeids readily available for view or delimited text
download
* several bugfixes and minor ui tweaks

We jump to 0.5 because the subjects and localization pieces are significant
additions. Many thanks go to Ben for making the subjects appear. There is a
new
whitepaper explaining how localization works available here:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/localize.pdf

Please post any thoughts you have about how well the model described in this
whitepaper might work for you to jake-list or jake-devel-list.

The fine print: jake is free for use, copying, modification, or redistribution
under the terms of the GNU GPL. You can try jake out here:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/...and read more about how it works and how to use it
where you are:
http://jake.med.yale.edu/docs/about.html

Regards,
-Dan
Daniel Chudnov 
Systems Architect 
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library 
Yale University School of Medicine 
(203) 785-4347 
<daniel.chudnov@yale.edu>

jake-devel-list maillist - jake-devel-list@vectra.med.yale.edu 
http://vectra.med.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/jake-devel-list

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