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IR-L Digest, Vol.XVII, No.11, Issue 495 -- last issue from this address
IRLIST Digest ISSN 1064-6965
March 13, 2000
Volume XVII, Number 11
Issue 495
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II. JOBS
1. Canon Research Centre Europe: Software Engineer: IR
2. U. Strathclyde: Glasgow, Scotland: Chair, Information Science
3. UW-Milwaukee: Assistant Professor: SLIS
III. NOTICES
A. Publications
1. Reminder: Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Anaphora
and Ellipsis Resolution
2. Book: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
3. [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] March 13, 2000
B. Meetings
1. Evolang: CFParticipation
2. 2nd Learning Language in Logic (LLL) Workshop: CFPapers
3. IEEE Vis 2000: 2nd CFParticipation
4. Graphics Hardware 2000: 2nd CFParticipation
5. Cross Language Evaluation Forum: CFParticipation
C. Miscellaneous
1. IR-L Has a New Address
2. W3C Developments
3. AntWorld Web Search Tool Now Available
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II. JOBS
II.1.
Fr: Tony Rose <tgr@cre.canon.co.uk>
Re: Canon Research Centre Europe: Software Engineer: IR
Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has a position for a top quality
Software Engineer in the Retrieval Department. Applications from experienced
software engineers and exceptional recent graduates are invited for the
following position:
Job Specification
* to design, develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators and product-level
software for advanced information retrieval
* to perform development activities as an integral member of an R&D team
working on advanced information retrieval, user interface technology, natural
language processing & WWW
Requirements
* first class academic background: honours degree in computer science or
related discipline with significant computing content
* excellent software engineering skills in a variety of languages including
C/C++ and Java
* experience of working on commercial software projects Desirable:
* experience of building robust IR or NLP applications
* track record of proven initiative and teamwork in software development
projects
* expertise in the areas of:
- C++ standard template library
- distributed systems
- databases
We offer
* Stimulating and flexible working environment
* Competitive salary and benefits package
* Excellent career opportunities
Canon has over 75,000 employees world wide. Since its founding, Canon has
moved
forward toward its objective of being the manufacturer of the best products in
the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in
developing electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of
use of
our products.
One key to Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological
challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a significant part
in this. Because of British Law, preference will be given to applicants who
already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
To apply please e-mail, mail or fax your CV with a covering letter to:
The Recruitment Manager
Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
1 Occam Court PHONE: +44 (0)1483 448 844
Occam Road FAX: +44 (0)1483 448 845
Guildford GU2 7YJ E-MAIL: jobs@cre.canon.co.uk
UNITED KINGDOM WWW: www.cre.canon.co.uk
Dr TG Rose Retrieval Dept. Manager Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
Occam Road, Surrey Research Park, Guildford, Surrey, UK GU2 7YJ
email:tgr@cre.canon.co.uk tel:+44 1483 448807 fax:+44 1483 448845
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II.2.
Fr: Ruben Leon <ruben@dis.strath.ac.uk>
Re: U. Strathclyde: Glasgow, Scotland: Chair, Information Science
CHAIR IN INFORMATION SCIENCE
The University of Strathclyde invites applications for a Chair in Information
Science.
Applicants should have an established reputation and track record of
publications in Information Ccience and demonstrate a commitment to excellence
in research and teaching. Applications will be particularly welcome from
established academics in the fields of knowledge and information retrieval.
The
person appointed will be expected to provide research leadership,
contribute to
the Department's Undergraduate and Postgraduate classes, and take on
management
responsibilities as these are rotated within the Department.
The Department has two Masters programmes (MSc/PG Diploma in Information
Management and MSc/PG Diploma in Information and Library Studies). The
research
activity is organised into two main groupings, Information Retrieval and
Information Management The Department was rated "Excellent" under the Teaching
Quality Assessment and 4 in the last Research Assessment Exercise. Further
information is available in http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk.
Informal inquiries are welcome, contact the Head of Department Forbes Gibb at
forbes@dis.strath.ac.uk.
For application form (Ref 15/00) and further particulars (available on request
in alternative formats for applicants with a disability) contact the Personnel
Office, Tel 0141 548 4133 (24 hour Voicemail Service).
Applications Closing Date: 3 April 2000.
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II.3.
Fr: Dietmar Wolfram <dwolfram@csd.uwm.edu>
Re: UW-Milwaukee: Assistant Professor: SLIS
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 second 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: telecommunications, computer networking, informatics,
information resources management, digital libraries.
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 April 17, 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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III. NOTICES
III.A.1.
Fr: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk>
Re: Reminder: Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Anaphora
and Ellipsis Resolution
Reminder: Submission Deadline is 1 April 2000
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics:
Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin
Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of
active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct
interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the
understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language
Processing.
After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence
in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many
researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been
reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and
Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment of
anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further
stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In
addition, application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting
and information extraction, has independently identified the importance of
(and
boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis
resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of Natural Language
Understanding applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has
received increasing attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis
resolution has been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the
MUC coreference task projects and at a number of related for a (workshops,
conferences, etc.).
Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this
special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,
collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
Topics
The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and
challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited
to:
o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,
o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,
o techniques in ellipsis resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,
o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,
o applications of ellipsis resolution,
o multilingual anaphora resolution,
o evaluation issues,
o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.
In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to
the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:
o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora
resolution?
o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit
"constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?
o What is the case for languages other than English?
o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"
factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical
data can be brought to bear on this?
o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple
factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting
the antecedent?
o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?
o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora
automatically?
o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements
from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises
might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would
awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for
particular type(s) of input text?
o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic
reconstruction?
o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of
the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided
structure?
Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both
theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should
construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.
Submissions and Reviewing
The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either
electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style
details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to:
Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and
details of the author (following the format given at
http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.
Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor
of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special
issue. In addition to the guest editors,
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),
Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and
Shalom Lappin (University of London),
the guest editorial board includes the following members:
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),
Amit Bagga (GE CRD),
Claire Cardie (Cornell University),
David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),
Eugene Charniak (Brown University),
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp),
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC),
Dan Hardt (Villanova University),
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto),
Jerry Hobbs (SRI International),
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania),
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe),
Andrew Kehler (SRI International),
Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University),
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh),
Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille),
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),
Candy Sidner (Lotus Research),
Marilyn Walker (AT&T).
This call for paper is also available at
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html
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III.A.2.
Fr: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis@newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Re: Book: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 10
Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis
BREADTH AND DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS
Edited by
EVELYNE VIEGAS
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with
the
depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage)
aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both
issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough
manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in
implemented systems such as the application time of lexical rules. Lexical
rules and lexical underspecification are also contrasted in implemented
systems. The main approaches in the field of computational (lexical) semantics
are represented in the present book (including Wordnet, CyC, Mikrokosmos,
Generative Lexicon).
This book embraces several fields (and subfields) as different as: linguistics
(theoretical, computational, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics,
cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge
representation, statistics and natural language processing. The book also
constitutes a very good introduction to the state of the art in computational
semantic lexicons of the late 1990s.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7
November 1999, 352 pp.
NLG 270.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 89.00
Check the series Web page for order information:
http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB
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III.A.3.
Fr: EDUCAUSE <EDUCAUSE@EDUCAUSE.EDU>
Re: [WASHINGTON-UPDATE] March 13, 2000
EDUCAUSE: Transforming Education Through Information Technologies
http://www.educause.edu
IN THIS ISSUE
UNIVERSITIES WOULD GAIN FROM NEW SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL
UPCOMING EVENTS
"Networking 2000": March 30-31 (Washington, D.C.)
<http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/contents/events/mar2000/>
A Gathering of State Networks: Strategies for the Next Decade
April 16-18, 2000 (St. Louis, Missouri)
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu/events/apr2000/
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Written from EDUCAUSE'S Washington office, "The EDUCAUSE Washington Update" is
a free service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association
dedicated to
transforming higher education through information technologies.
Anyone may subscribe to the Update by sending e-mail to
listserv@listserv.educause.edu with "subscribe update firstname lastname" in
the body of the message. To unsubscribe, send a "signoff update" command to
the
same address. If you would like more information about the Update or would
like
to offer comments or suggestions, please contact Garret Sern at
gsern@educause.edu.
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III.B.1.
Fr: Conference Evolang <evolang@infres.enst.fr>
Re: Evolang: CFParticipation
Evolution of Language Conference
April in Paris
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
This is the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary
emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract
researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern
Darwinism.
The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists,
palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other
scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of
language.
All useful information (scientific programme, registration information) can be
found at the following address:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang
Scientific programme:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/program.html
Registration information:
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/registration.html
You may send a message to:evolang-registration@cwtfrance.comor write to
agonlit
Evenements, 16, Rue Ballu - 75009 Paris, France
We invite you to consider sending your registration before March 15
to benefit from reduced rates (155 Euros, instead of 230 Euros after this
date). The number of available places is limited, and priority will be
given to
early registrations.
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Conference : The Evolution of Language
April 3rd - 6th , 2000
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
Paris - France
http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang
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III.B.2.
Fr: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec@lri.fr>
Re: 2nd Learning Language in Logic (LLL) Workshop: CFPapers
CALL FOR PAPERS
2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP
13th - 14th September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal
Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL
http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000
Presentation
Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning
linguistic knowledge in logic.
This workshop is a follow-up of the succesfull LLL workshop held in 1999 in
Bled, (Slovenia) and co-located with ICML
(http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mlg/lll/workshop/).
It will be co-located with the International Conference on Grammar Inference
(ICGI) (http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Conference on Natural
Language
Learning (CoNLL) (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/cfp.html).
Aims and scope of the conference
The fact that more and more people are interested in the automatic acquisition
of lexica is due to the progress in the development of applications in NLP,
terminology acquisition, indexing, information extraction, retrieval,
question-answering, etc. Relational learning seems like a valuable alternative
to data analysis in some NLP domains. This is clearly shown by the recent
success of both NLP methods based on ILP or non-classic logics, and hybrid
methods.
Interest in learning linguistic knowledge has grown steadily over the last 15
years. As compared to manual acquisition, specialized resources can be
learned,
revised and extended with respect to the task at hand for much less cost.
Despite the degree of variation in the applications and resources we want to
acquire, most of them are learned in the same way: by observing regularities
among the co-occurence of phenomena in the corpus. Therefore, a large amount
of work is naturally based on statistics, and attempts to develop robust and
large-scale methods.
Moreover, relational learning and logic-based learning have proved their
capacity to learn complex structured knowledge from structured data and
explicit background knowledge. Compared to data analysis, some of the major
advantages here are: a better means to express the representation; a method
that is easier to understand; and a comprehensible learning result.
As a consequence, interest is growing for a corpus-based learning of
structures
that represent linguistic resources such as predicate-argument structures,
grammars, ontologies, etc.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from many subfields
of AI who are working on learning from text, while emphasizing the logic-based
learning techniques and algorithms. These techniques include,
* Instance-based and clustering approaches in relational learning
* Scalability issues (applying Logic-based methods to large data sets)
* Logical approaches to statistical NLP
* Theory revision
* Explanation-based learning
* Higher-order logic for LLL
* Handling very complex terms
* Multi-predicate learning
* Collaborative and interactive learning
* Learning in description logics
* Combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning
* Evaluation techniques
* Information indexing, filtering, retrieval, extraction
* Text classification methods
* Question answering
* Learning ontologies, thesauri and lexicon
* Learning terminology
* Learning predicate-argument structure
* Shallow parsing
* Learning grammar
* Learning subcategorisation frames
* Part-of-speech tagging
* Morphosyntactic tagging
* Morphological analysis
In addition to these topics, the workshop covers all theoretical and
methodological issues concerning learning from text using logic-based
techniques. Submissions describing innovative applications are also
encouraged.
Important dates
Submission of papers by May, 15, 2000
Acceptance notices mailed by June, 19, 2000
Final, camera-ready papers due by July, 14, 2000
Organization
The workshop will be two full days, including invited talks, paper
presentations, poster presentations, and numerous opportunities for
discussion.
There will be joint sessions with the workshop "International Conference on
Grammar Inference" (ICGI) and the "Conference on Natural Language Learning"
(CoNLL) on topics of common interest. Joint sessions will include invited
talks
and paper presentations, depending on submissions.
Submission procedure
Full papers may be up to 10 pages, short papers up to 6 pages, both in an
11-point font and single-spaced. We accept either electronic submission
(preferred), in Postscript, PDF or Word format, or paper submissions (in 4
copies) to the following address:
Claire Nedellec
LLL workshop
LRI, Bat 490 e-mail: cn@lri.fr
Universite Paris-Sud Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26
F-91405 Orsay Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86
FRANCE
Program chair
Claire Nedellec
Inference and Machine Learning Group e-mail: cn@lri.fr
LRI, Bat 490 Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26
Universite Paris-Sud Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86
F-91405 Orsay
FRANCE
Web : http://www.lri.fr/~cn
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III.B.3.
Fr: vis2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (IEEE Visualization 2000)
Re: IEEE Vis 2000: 2nd CFParticipation
I E E E V i s u a l i z a t i o n 2 0 0 0
Paper, case study, tutorial, panel,
mini-workshop, BOF deadline is coming up on
March 31, 2000
2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
October 8 - October 13, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000
THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY
Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on
Visualization and Graphics In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH
Visualization is a vital research and applications frontier shared by a
variety
of scientific, medical, engineering, business, and entertainment fields. IEEE
Visualization 2000 focuses on inter- disciplinary methods and collaboration
among developers and users of visualization methods across all of science,
engineering, medicine, and commerce. Sunday through Tuesday of Conference Week
will include tutorials, symposia, and mini-workshops. Papers, panels, case
studies, and works in progress will be presented Wednesday through Friday.
We invite you to participate in IEEE Visualization 2000 by submitting your
original research through papers, panels, case studies, work in progress, and
demonstrations. Share your perspectives through panels and workshops, or your
experience through tutorials. Please select the forum appropriate to your
submission, where it will be considered by your peers for presentation.
Particular focus on volume visualization and information visualization are
addressed in special two- day symposia.
For further information on the conference or symposia contact:
Charles Hansen, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 3154, Fax: +1 801 581 5843, Email: hansen@cs.utah.edu
Chris Johnson, Conference Co-Chair, University of Utah,
Phone: +1 801 581 7705, Fax: +1 801 585 6513, Email: crj@cs.utah.edu
Steve Bryson, Conference Co-Chair, NASA Ames Research Center
Phone: +1 650 604 4524, Fax: +1 650 604 3957, Email: bryson@nas.nasa.gov
See the conference web page for complete up-to-date information at
http://www.erc.msstate.edu/vis2000
The three conference tracks cover:
Visualization Algorithms:
Volume Rendering, Flow Visualization, Isosurfaces, Compression,
Vector and Tensor Visualization, Sonification, etc.
Visualization Techniques:
Information Visualization, Databases, Human Perception, Human Factors,
Multivariate Visualization, Virtual Reality, etc.
Visualization Applications:
Archaeology, Astrophysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Biomedicine,
Chemistry, Education, Electronics, Environment, Finance, Mathematics,
Mechanics, Molecular Biology, Physics, Virtual Reality, WWW, Java, VRML,
HTML, AVS, Data Explorer, Iris Explorer, Khoros, vtk, etc.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 31: Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies, Tutorials,
Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals, InfoVis 2000 papers, and VolViz 2000 papers
due
May 30: Conference papers, Panels, Case Studies, Tutorials,
Mini-Workshops, BOF proposals, and InfoVis 2000, and VolViz 2000 selections
announced
June 15: Conference Work in Progress and Demonstration proposals due
June 30: InfoVis 2000 Late Breaking Hot Topics papers due
July 17: Final Conference papers, final InfoVis 2000 papers, and VolViz
2000 papers due to publisher
August 1: Conference Work in Progress selections announced
August 21: Conference Work in Progress final abstracts due to publisher
August 31: Conference Work in Progress video submissions due
September 8: Close of Early Registration
October 8: Conference Commences
October 9: InfoVis 2000 and VolViz 2000 Commence
Paper Submissions (due March 31, 2000)
Papers are solicited that present research results related to all areas of
visualization. Original papers are limited to 5,000 words. The submission of
NTSC VHS video (up to 5 minutes in length) to accompany the paper is strongly
recommended. This year we will begin accepting electronic submissions of
papers. If you choose to submit electronically, please submit in PDF or
postscript format. If you choose to submit hardcopy, please submit 7
hardcopies
of all materials. Regardless of whether you submit your paper
electronically or
in the hardcopy format, a complete paper submission form including the
abstract
must be sent through the conference website for each submission. Details for
electronic submission are available at
http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~vis00/. Accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings; the videos will be included in the conference video
proceedings. Hard copy paper submissions should be sent to Amitabh Varshney,
Visualization 2000, 2425 Computer Science Bldg, State University of New
York at
Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794, phone: +1 631 632 8446
Panel Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Panels should address the most important issues in visualization today.
Panelists should be experts in their fields who can discuss the challenges of
visualization, and engage the audience and fellow panel members in a
stimulating, interactive debate. Panel proposals should describe the topic to
be addressed and identify the prospective panelists. Each panelist should
include a position statement on the topic and a short biography, the total of
which should be limited to 500 words. The statements will be included in the
conference proceedings. Panel proposals should be sent to Jamie Painter,
Email:
jamie@acl.lanl.gov
Case Study Papers (due March 31, 2000)
Case studies are reports on how visualization has contributed to the analysis
of data in actual applications or studies of the visualization process. A
short
paper limited to 2,500 words (maximum 4 pages B/W plus 1 page color) will be
included in the conference proceedings. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to
accompany the paper are recommended; the video will be included in the
conference video proceedings. This year we will begin accepting electronic
submissions of the papers in PDF or postscript format. If electronic
submission
is not possible, please submit 7 hardcopies of all materials. For more
detailed
information concerning submission, see the web site at
http://perseus.cwi.nl:8086, or contact Robert van Liere, Email: robertl@cwi.nl
Work in Progress (due June 15, 2000)
Submissions are solicited for Works in Progress sessions that pertain to all
areas of visualization. These submissions must be original abstracts, must
describe work in progress by the authors and their collaborators, and may not
exceed 500 words or a maximum of 1 page. Images and/or NTSC VHS video to
accompany the abstract are recommended. Authors of accepted abstracts will
have
an opportunity to submit a revised and extended abstract, as well as present
the work at the conference. These extended abstracts may not exceed 1,000
words
or a maximum of 2 pages including images. All accepted abstracts will be
distributed at the conference but not published in the conference proceedings.
Videos associated with accepted abstracts may be included in the conference
video proceedings. All submissions will be done electronically. Submission
details can be found at the conference web site. For further information,
contact Sam Uselton, Email: uselton1@llnl.gov
Tutorial Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Half-day and full-day course proposals are invited for visualization systems,
methods, and application areas. Tutorials will be offered Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday. For more detailed information concerning submission and format
content, see the conference web site, or contact Penny Rheingans, Email:
rheingan@cs.umbc.edu
Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals (due March 31, 2000)
Proposals may be submitted for Mini-Workshops and evening Birds-Of-A- Feather
(BOF) gatherings on visualization methods or application areas. They should
deal with state-of-the-art topics and involve experts in the field.
Discipline-focused proposals devoted to a particular discipline's methods and
needs are encouraged. Mini-Workshop and Birds-of-a-Feather Proposals should be
sent to Rob Erbacher, Email: erbacher@cs.albany.edu
Demonstration Proposals
Visualization 2000 is a unique opportunity to present your products or
research
to visualization experts from a wide variety of fields. We invite
demonstrations of commercial hardware, software, integrated systems
peripherals, and literature, as well as academic research. We encourage
demonstrators to have technical representatives in attendance. For more
information on participating in Visualization 2000 demonstrations, contact
Eric
Greenwade, Email: leg@inel.gov
Creative Applications Lab (due July 15, 2000)
The Creative Applications Lab (CAL) is designed to let presenters interact
with
conference attendees on an individual basis, and to let attendees demonstrate
their own visualization systems and techniques. The CAL will have a variety of
computers on which the contributors and attendees can install their materials
for others' experimentation and enjoyment. The CAL will be open in conjunction
with the demonstrations at Visualization 2000. For details on participating in
the CAL, see the conference web site or contact Russell Taylor, Email:
taylorr@cs.unc.edu.
IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION (INFOVIS 2000)
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics
October 9-10, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
InfoVis 2000, the sixth Information Visualization Symposium, will be held to
focus on the rapidly growing area of information visualization. Increasing
amounts of data and information and the availability of fast digital network
access are creating a rapidly growing demand for accessing, querying and
retrieving information and data. However, information technology will not
transform business, science, medicine, engineering, and education if users
cannot use it easily and efficiently. Technology must come to the users,
taking
their needs into account. If we do not involve the users, we will develop
useless systems. InfoVis 2000 will focus on all aspects of information
visualization and human-centered information interfaces, and on ways in which
advances in interactive computer graphics hardware, mass storage, and data
visualization can be used to visualize information. Submissions are solicited
in all areas of information visualization and human-centered information
interfaces, including, but not limited to, such topics as:
- Information visualization for heterogeneous audiences
- Visualizing the Internet and WWW
- Browsing and other navigation methods
- Visualization algorithms
- Interactive information visualization
- Multi-dimensional information visualization
- Information presentation
- Visualization of complex information
- Visualization of algorithms
- Visualization of textual information
- Visualization and knowledge discovery
- Visualization of search results
- Graph / network visualizations
- Geographic visualizations
- Empirical studies
- Data structures and models for information visualization
- Visualization systems for collaborative workspaces
Paper Submissions:
The deadline for submission is March 31, 2000. Papers should be at most 8,000
words including an abstract, affiliation, and keywords, and should present
previously unpublished original results. Please submit 8 copies of your paper.
Video submissions (NTSC VHS) with papers are welcome (4 copies), but are not
required. Videos will assist reviewers' assessment of the papers. Submit to:
Steven Roth, MAYA Viz, 2100 Wharton Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA, Phone:
+1 412 488 2900, Fax: +1 412 488 294, Email: roth@maya.comFor more
information,
please contact Daniel A. Keim, Email: keim@informatik.uni-halle.de
InfoVis Late Breaking Hot Topics (due June 30, 2000)
Submissions will be accepted on Late Breaking "Hot Topics" that pertain to all
areas of Information Visualization. These submissions must be original, may
show work in progress, and may not exceed 2,000 words or a maximum of 4 pages
including images. Images to accompany the paper are recommended. Accepted
papers will be published and distributed at the conference.
Authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to submit a revised paper.
Submissions of printed papers (8 copies, due June 30,
2000) should be sent to Nahum Gershon, The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley
Madison Blvd. McLean, VA 22102, USA, Phone: +1 701 883 7518, Fax: +1 703 883
5230, Email: gershon@mitre.org
For more information on InfoVis Late Breaking Hot Topics, please contact Keith
Andrews, Email: kandrews@iicm.edu
For further information http://www.infovis.org/infovis2000
Symposium Chair
Jock Mackinlay, Xerox PARC
VOLUME VISUALIZATION AND GRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM (VOLVIZ 2000)
Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM/SIGGRAPH
October 9-10, 2000
Doubletree Hotel
Salt Lake City, Utah
The Seventh Volume Visualization Symposium (VolViz 2000) will be held October
2000 in conjunction with IEEE Visualization 2000. Papers containing original
work in all areas of volume visualization and graphics are solicited. Of
special interest are papers dealing with very large volumes and papers dealing
with volume graphics modeling and rendering. Suggested topics include:
- Modeling with volumes
- Volume manipulation and deformation
- Voxel representations
- Hardware-assisted volume rendering
- Hardware and software architectures
- PC-based volume graphics
- Special purpose hardware for volume graphics
- Interacting with volumetric models
- Volume rendering of extremely large datasets
- Compressed volume data
- Iso-surface extraction
- Vector field visualization
- Visualization of multiple related fields
- Time-varying volume data
- Volume rendering of curvilinear and irregular grids
- Applications of volume graphics and volume visualization
Submissions: The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2000. Final papers will
be limited to 8 proceedings pages plus one page of color figures. There are
two
alternative ways to submit a contribution. The preferred method is to submit
all your material via e-mail in compressed postscript format to:
volviz00@cis.ohio-state.edu. Videos should be in MPEG format and images in
JPEG
or TIFF. Or, you may choose to send five copies with any accompanying NTSC
video to the following postal address: Roger A. Crawfis, The Ohio State
University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2015 Neil Ave.,
Columbus, OH 43210, Phone: +1 614 292 2566
CRITICAL DATES
March 31: Papers Due
May 30: Notification of acceptance
July 17: Final papers due to publisher
October 9: Symposium commences
For further information e-mail: volviz00@cis.ohio-state.edu or see
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/volviz/volviz00.html
Symposium Chair
Bill Lorensen, GE Corporate R&D Center
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III.B.4.
Fr: HWWS2000@gris.uni-tuebingen.de
Re: Graphics Hardware 2000: 2nd CFParticipation
2 n d C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
Graphics Hardware 2000
in cooperation with Eurographics and ACM SIGGRAPH
(to be confirmed)
Interlaken, Switzerland
Monday and Tuesday, August 21-22, 2000
Graphics Hardware is a highly visible, established international forum for
exchanging experience and knowledge related to computer graphics hardware. The
workshop offers a unique perspective on graphics hardware by combining
discussions and constructive critique of innovative concepts as well as
product-level designs. The workshop is an inclusive forum for the entire
graphics hardware community and brings together researchers, engineers, and
architects. This year's workshop will be held in Interlaken, Switzerland,
jointly with Eurographics 2000.
Please visit our website at http://www.merl.com/hwws00/
Schedule
April 12 Deadline for paper submissions
May 8 Notification of acceptance
May 22 Camera-ready papers due
July 12 Deadline for Hot 3D Systems submissions
Aug 21-22 Workshop
Traditional Papers Track
We invite high-quality, original papers on all aspects of computer graphics
hardware describing either proven and tested solutions or novel ideas and
concepts. Possible topics include:
Graphics accelerator architectures
Performance issues
Pixel operations and frame buffer techniques
Multi-processor architectures for graphics
Hardware support for image-based rendering
Load balancing in graphics systems
Expansion and acceleration of shading models
Volume rendering architectures
Space, screen, and model partitioning
Hardware support for photorealism
Media processors
Exploitation of new memory technologies for 3D graphics
Authors are invited to send papers electronically, in Adobe PDF format as an
email attachment, to lastra@cs.unc.edu. Please limit the length to 10 typeset
pages or 20 double-spaced pages. If electronic submission is not feasible,
please send six copies of the paper to the address below.
If you would like to send videotapes to accompany the paper, please make six
copies and mail them to the address below. An effort should be made to include
the segment in both PAL and NTSC on the same VHS tape, to ensure that it
can be
seen by all reviewers.
Submission address:
Anselmo Lastra
Department of Computer Science
CB 3175, Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 USA
Phone +919-962-1958
FAX +919-962-1799
Email: lastra@cs.unc.edu
If you wish to send papers electronically, but via an alternate method such as
ftp, please contact lastra@cs.unc.edu for instructions.
Hot 3D Systems Track
We invite industry groups to present their latest and greatest 3D chips or
system designs. Presentations should be technical, rather than marketing, and
should focus on real products and their performance evaluation. Presentations
should last approximately 20-25 minutes. Bound copies of the slides will be
prepared for attendees, and presentation slides will be made available on the
workshop web page after the workshop.
Contributors are invited to send their presentation slides electronically, in
Microsoft PowerPoint format, as an email attachment to bosch@us.ibm.com by
July
12, 2000. If electronic submission is not feasible, please send a hardcopy of
the slides to the address below.
Submission address:
Bengt-Olaf Schneider
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights NY 10598
U.S.A.
Phone: +914-945-1585
Fax: +914-945-4297
E-mail: bosch@us.ibm.com
The Workshop
The workshop will take place in Interlaken, Switzerland in a hotel during
Monday and Tuesday of Eurographics 2000 week. The workshop will feature two
full days of paper and industry presentations and invited talks. We will
continue the workshop's tradition of a sumptuous banquet at a unique location.
Registration
The registration fee (in US $) includes the workshop proceedings, banquet,
coffee, and lunches. The workshop fee does not cover accommodations. Please
see
our website for full details on registration and accommodations.
Best Paper Award
An award of $500 will be given to the authors of the paper considered to be
the
outstanding paper presented at the workshop. The award is based on the
accuracy, originality, and importance of the technical concept, the quality
and
readability of the manuscript, as well as the content and delivery of the
verbal presentation. To qualify for this award, one or more of the principal
authors must be enrolled at the workshop and present the paper. The winner
will
be chosen by the organizing committee based on audience feedback and will be
announced at the end of the workshop.
Demonstrations
Presenters and workshop participants are invited to bring prototypes or
products for demonstration at the workshop. Demonstrations will be held on
Monday and Tuesday during breaks and before and after workshop sessions. We
highly encourage paper authors and industry presenters to demonstrate their
systems at the workshop. Please contact the workshop chairs to arrange for
space or electrical connections that may be required for your demonstration.
For more information please visit http://www.merl.com/hwws00/
Workshop Chairs:
Bengt-Olaf Schneider - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Wolfgang Strasser - University of Tuebingen, Germany
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III.B.5.
Fr: Jeff Allen <jeff@elda.fr>
Re: Cross Language Evaluation Forum: CFParticipation
CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM
A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched in Europe.
The activity is sponsored by the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital
Libraries in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) and the TREC Conferences.
The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main evaluation
tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual (non-English)
information retrieval systems. There will also be a special sub-task for
domain-specific cross-language evaluation.
For further information, see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>.
The results of the activity will be presented during a two-day Workshop on
Multilingual Information Access, 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal,
immediately after the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries
(ECDL2000: see <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000>). Those intending to
participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an e-mail to Carol Peters
(carol@iei.pi.cnr.it), as soon as possible, indicating in which task(s) they
intend to participate.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Data Release - 1 April 2000
Topic Release - 8 May 2000
Receipt of results from participants - 1 July 2000
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 August 2000
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 5 September 2000
Workshop - 21-22 September
2000
Carol Peters
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(or IEI-CNR)
Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Via Alfieri, 1
56010 Ghezzano, PISA, Italy
Tel: +39 050 315 2897
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail:carol@iei.pi.cnr.it
http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/Personal/carol.html
Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique
European Language Resources Association (ELRA) &
European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)
(Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques)
55, rue Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris FRANCE
Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30
mailto:jeff@elda.fr
http://www.elda.fr/
See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site:
http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html
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III.C.1.
Fr: Nancy Gusack Crawford <nancy.@cni.org>
Re: IR-L Has a New Address
Subscribers!
Please read the notice at the bottom of this issue for the IR-L Digest's new
address and contact information.
Thanks to Cliff Lynch and the CNI for offering to host the IR-L Digest. I am
leaving the University of California (after 20 years) and am joining
PeopleSoft. I'll continue to moderate the IR-L Digest via CNI.
Nancy
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III.C.2.
Fr: Clifford Lynch <cliff@cni.org>
Re: W3C Developments
There are a number of public documents coming out from the Worldwide
Web consortium that should be of interest to many readers of this list. You
can
find all of this linked from the main web consortium page at
http://www.w3c.org/
First, there is a proposed W3C recommendation on accessibility guidelines in
web user agents that is out for comment. This is part of the consortium's
continuing program of work on accessibility.
Second, there is a public draft requirements document for the XML
Query Language effort. This effort is still at an early stage, but I think it
bears very careful tracking.
Both of these documents are obvious, prominent links from the main page.
Third, there is a last call draft of the work of the XML Digital Signature
joint W3C/IETF effort. You can find this, and other documents related to this
effort, at http://www.w3c.org/Signature/ (it is also linked from the main
page).
This is a potentially important specification for many applications involving
digital signatures and is an effort I have been following for some time. Note
the (at least to me) surprising complexity of the specification.
I believe that the W3C would welcome comment on all of this work; it's all of
importance to our community.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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III.C.3.
Fr: Paul Kantor <kantorp@cs.rutgers.edu>
Re: AntWorld Web Search Tool Now Available
All interested members of the IR community are invited to try out a new tool
for searching the web, at http://aplab.rutgers.edu/ant, where you will find
more
information about the AntWorld Project, supported by DARPA.
There is quite a lot of information at the site, and this note is intended to
provide a fast path to exploration of the AntWorld web tool. To use it, follow
the link "Browse the Web with AntWorld!" on our home page. AntWorld can be
used
on almost any computer with the Netscape web browser (version 4.07 or above).
When you use AntWorld, you have to first describe the goals of your current
search (quest). Once the quest is started, a small console window will appear
at the top of your screen. Using it to conduct searches will automatically
place search results in your main browser window. The console allows you to
return to any of your prior searches, annotate pages as to their usefulness,
and draw on information developed by other users of AntWorld. There are a
number of options, which are transparent only after they have been learned.
There is extensive help available directly from the console.
AntWorld quests are persistent (i.e., stored in our central database). That
is,
if you want to resume your last AntWorld quest after you reboot your computer
or go from one computer to another, you only need to revisit the AntWorld Home
site and re-enter your user id on the "Browse..." page for your AntWorld
console to reappear. This takes only half a minute or so. Of course, you can
start a new quest as well.
When you use AntWorld the first time, the browser will bring up two "Netscape
security" dialog boxes, asking you to grant "access to your browser" and
"modifying your browser" permissions. This is necessary to enable the
AntWorld's console window interact with the document window (where you are
browsing the web), and does not represent any security hazard.
Benefits and risks: The AntWorld support does not write to your hard drive,
and
does not harm your own system. It will give you access to searches ("quests")
conducted by others, arguably a benefit. It will also record in its central
database (on our server) the judgments made in your quests, and give others
access them, which you may not desire. If you close the AntWorld console, no
information about your use of the Web is transmitted to the central
database.AntWorld client (optional): For extra functionality, follow the link
"Install AntWorld client" from the AntWorld home. Installing and configuring
the client ("AntScape") involves some effort (depending on how far your
Netscape configuration is from the standard one), but if successful, it will
provide iconic indication of links that have been judged useful in similar
quests. Because this option processes the text of incoming pages, it works
rather more slowly than the other, so for a first encounter you will probably
prefer the plain version. Note also that if you install and use AntScape, all
pages you visit during the AntWorld session (and not only those you explicitly
judge) are recorded in the central database.
Please send comments and suggestions to
kantor@scils.rutgers.edu (Project director) and
vmenkov@aplab.rutgers.edu (Research associate)
Paul B. Kantor, Professor and Voice 732 932 1359/7705
Director, Alexandria Project Lab. FAX 732 932 1504
LIS/SCILS/Rutgers
Director: Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries Project
Editor-in-Chief: Information Retrieval (http://www.wkap.nl/journals/ir)
Member, Rutgers Center for Operations Research.
Personal home page: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kantor
Internet: kantor@scils.rutgers.edu
Mail: 4 Huntington St. New Brunswick NJ. 08901-1071
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