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IRList Digest Volume 1 Number 16
IRList Digest Saturday, 19 Sep 1985 Volume 1 : Issue 16
Today's Topics:
Reference - Article on Electronic Books
Call for Papers - Application for NSF funds to Pisa Conf.
Announcement - Conf. on OED
Seminar - Information Lens on Electronic Messages
- Neural Circuitry for Motion Discrimination
- VLSI Text Search
- Computational Discourse Analysis
- Visual Inf. Proc., Perceptual Organization and Form
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From: Mark Richer <RICHER%sumex-aim.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Mon 14 Oct 85 09:31:39-PDT
Subject: electronic books article
October 1985 issue of IEEE Computer is on MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
(e.g., electronic mail, teleconferencing with mixed text, graphics, sound)
and there is an article that might be of interest to many of you:
Reading and Writing the Electronic Book
Yankelovich, Meyrowitz, van Dam (Brown University)
p. 15-30
mark
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From: Don <kraft@LSU>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 85 11:45:13 cdt
LSU
Department of Computer Science
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
BATON ROUGE, LA 70803-4020
(504)-388-1495
CSNET: kraft%lsu@csnet-relay
October 17, 1985
Dear World:
I have just received the news from the National Science
Foundation, Division of Information Science and Tech-
nology, about the travel grant to the ACM Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
This conference will be held in Pisa, Italy on Sep-
tember 8-10, 1986.
The news is good. We have been given fifteen stipends
covering airfare to the meeting. The selection for the
awarding of the stipends will be made by the ACM/SIGIR
executive officers, the U.S. members of the conference
program committee, and the travel grant principal
investigator (me). Criteria for selection include i)
acceptance of a paper to be presented at the confer-
ence, ii) participation in the conference program, iii)
value of the attendee to the conference, and iv) poten-
tial for professional growth of the attendee by attend-
ing the conference. Other considerations include being
a U. S. resident and geographical dispersion. Anyone
interested in receiving a travel stipend should contact
me. It is not too early to begin planning now,
although the deadline is June 1, 1986.
The conference is sponsored by the Italian National
Research Council, in cooperation with ACM/SIGIR,
AICA/GLIR, BCS/IRSG, and IDI. The topics to be covered
at the conference include theory, methodology, and
applications of information retrieval; system model-
ling, development, and evaluation; storage and
retrieval techniques; hardware developments; complexity
problems; cognitive and semantic models; mathematical
and linguistic models; user interfaces; knowledge-based
and expert systems; natural language processing; office
information systems; mutimedia information; database
management systems -- retrieval relationships; and
artificial intelligence and information retrieval.
U.S. members of the program committee include Michael
Lesk, W. Bruce Croft, Clement T. Yu, Tamas Doszkocs, R.
Allen, and G. Salton. Other members include P.
Bollmann, J. Schek, J. Tait, P. Willet, C. J. van
Rijsbergen, Y. Chiaramella, F. Naldi, M. Agosti, and F.
Rabitti.
Submission of papers (four copies of a full paper of
3000-5000 words) is due by January 15, 1986; and they
should be sent to Professor Gerard Salton, Department
of Computer Science, Cornell University, Upson Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853. Final copy is due May 15, 1986,
with acceptance notification coming by March 31, 1986.
Sincerely yours,
Donald H. Kraft
Professor and Chairman
DHK:unix
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From: Michael Lesk <lesk%petrus%mouton.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 85 10:11:31 edt
Subject: Submission for IR List.
(the sooner this gets out the better, since the conference is Nov. 7-8!
Sorry for not sending this in earlier, but publicity for this wasn't
my job).
Subject: Conference on the computerized Oxford English Dictionary
From: lesk@bellcore (Michael E. Lesk)
The University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED is starting research
projects using the machine-readable form of the OED now being prepared.
The plan is to have not just typesetting tapes, but an electronic database
representing the history and use of the English language, as shown in
the dictionary. A one-day meeting at Waterloo, from 7pm Thursday Nov. 7
through 4:30pm Friday Nov. 8, 1985, will examine research areas related
to the OED and machine-readable dictionaries. The program is:
Introduction
John Simpson, Oxford University Press, "The New OED Project"
John Stubbs, University of Waterloo, "The UW Centre for the New OED"
Using On-Line Dictionaries (Michael Lesk, session chair)
Henry Kucera, Brown University, "The Problem of Structural Ambiguity
in the Lexicon"
Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research, "Knowledge Resource Tools
for Accessing Large Text Files"
George Miller, Princeton University, "Wordnet: A Dictionary Browser"
The Use and Misuse of Dictionaries (Neil Hultin, session chair)
Gisele Losier, U. Waterloo, "Using the OED for the Study of Loan Words"
Christopher Dean, U. Saskatchewan, "The OED: The Study of Local Regional
Dialects and Historical Dialet Dictionaries"
Knowledge Databases (Robin Cohen, session chair)
Randy Goebel, U. Waterloo, "What is a Knowledge Representation System?"
John Sowa, IBM, "Using Knowledge Representation to Capture the Semantic
Information of a Lexicon"
Summary (Frank Tompa, U. Waterloo, plus other session chairs)
Those interested in attending should send $25 US or $35 Canadian, along
with their name, address and phone numbers, to:
Centre for the New OED
Dana Porter Library, rm 105
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
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From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%MIT-OZ%mit-mc.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1985 16:53 EDT
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar
Thursday 17, October 4:00pm Room: NE43- 8th floor Playroom
The Artificial Intelligence Lab
Revolving Seminar Series
"The Information Lens:
An Intelligent System for Finding, Filtering, and
Sorting Electronic Messages"
Thomas W. Malone
MIT Sloan School of Management
This talk will describe an intelligent system to help people share,
filter, and sort information communicated by computer-based messaging
systems. The system exploits concepts from artificial intelligence such
as frames, production rules, and inheritance networks, but it avoids the
unsolved problems of natural language understanding by providing users
with a rich set of semi-structured message templates. A consistent set
of "direct manipulation" editors simplifies the use of the system by
individuals, and an incremental enhancement path simplifies the adoption
of the system by groups.
The talk will also include an overview of the other projects and
research goals in the Organizational Systems Laboratory at MIT.
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From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%MIT-OZ%mit-mc.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1985 18:25 EDT
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar
Wednesday 16, October 12:00pm Room: E25-401
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING
"Towards the Neural Circuitry Underlying Motion Discrimination in the
Retina: A Film"
Christof Kock
Whitaker College
In this talk, I will discuss recent advances towards understanding the
biophysical mechanisms and the anatomical pathways underlying the
computation of the direction of a moving stimuli in the rabbit retina.
I will show detailed computer simulation--including a color film-- of
the change in intracellular potential within a reconstructed direction
selective rabbit ganglion cell in response to massive distributed
synaptic input. These simulations also clearly show the functional
differences between two major types of synaptic induced inhibition:
silent or shunting inhibition--mediated by a GABA(a) receptor--and
hyperpolarizing inhibition--mediated by a GABA(b) receptor.
Current experimental evidence favors our veto-scheme, whereby
direction selectivity is computed at many independent sites within the
dendritic tree.
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From: Susan Gere <M.SUSAN%su-sierra.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Thu 17 Oct 85 15:19:35-PDT
Subject: Stanford Computer Systems Seminar 10/23
EE380---Seminar on Computer Systems
Title: Fast Data Finder - a VLSI Check Search Machine
Speaker: Dr. Kwang-I Yu
From: TRW Redondo Beach
Time: Wednesday, October 23 at 4:15 p.m.
Place: Terman Auditorium
Abstract
The Fast Data Finder (FDF) is a text-search engine based on a typelined
VLSI processor. It has a comprehensive set of search functions and is
able to search up to 500 queries, containing up to 8,000 characters,
simultaneously at a sustained system-level search speed of 7.8 million
characters per second. This makes it by far the most powerful text search
system in the world. Architecturally, the interesting features are that
all search functions are implemented within a single VLSI processor, that
the algorithm is single pass and requires no pauses or iterations, and
that very high bandwidth storage devices are employed.
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From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%MIT-OZ%mit-mc.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1985 17:31 EDT
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar
Note: The date of the following entry has been changed from Monday to
Tuesday.
Tuesday 22, October 11:00am-12:30pm Room: Millikan Room, E53-482
Computational Discourse Analysis Using DEREDEC:
An Analysis of Balzac's Sarrasine
Jaqueline Leon and Jean-Marie Marandin
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
We present research in computational discourse analysis and discuss an
example for the case of Balzac's Sarrasine. We use P. Plante's
DEREDEC programming system in this work because of its suitability for
natural language processing. After a bottom-up syntactic parser for
French grammar produces a syntactic derivation, we perform pattern
matching on the output to acheive a linguistic and literary
interpretation. We describe how we use these programs to capture two
different aspects of a text: the thematic segmentation and density.
Host: Professor Hayward R. Alker, Jr., Department of Political Science, MIT
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From: Peter de Jong <DEJONG%MIT-OZ%mit-mc.arpa@CSNET-RELAY>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1985 13:33 EDT
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar
Monday 21, October 4:00pm Room: NE43-8th floor playroom
SEMINAR ON VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING
"Structure from Motion"
Shahriar Negahdaripour
There are several techniques proposed in the literature for recovering
the motion of objects as well as their 3D structure from a sequence of
time-varying imagery. These include determining motion and structure
from point or line correspondence, tracking contours, or using the
optical flow field. The underlying mathematics, as well as the
advantages/disadvantages of these methods will be discussed. Some
recent results based on using the intensity gradients will also be
presented.
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Note: the following announcement is repeated from the previous calendar
with the date corrected.
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Thursday 24, October 4:00pm Room: NE43- 8th floor Playroom
The Artificial Intelligence Lab
Revolving Seminar Series
"Perceptual Organization And The Representation Of Natural Form"
Alex P. Pentland
AI Center, SRI Int'l and CSLI, Stanford
To understand both perception and commonsense reasoning we need a
representation that captures important physical regularities and that
correctly describes the people's perceptual organization of the
stimulus. Unfortunately, the current representations were originally
developed for other purposes (e.g., physics, engineering) and are
therefore often unsuitable.
We have developed a new representation and used it to make accurate
descriptions of an extensive variety of natural forms including people,
mountains, clouds and trees. The descriptions are amazingly compact.
The approach of this representation is to describe scene structure in a
manner similar to people's notion of ``a part,'' using descriptions that
reflect a possible formative history of the object, e.g., how the object
might have been constructed from lumps of clay.
For this representation to be useful it must be possible to recover such
descriptions from image data; we show that the primitive elements of
such descriptions may be recovered in an overconstrained and therefore
reliable manner. An interactive ``real-time'' 3-D graphics modeling
system based on this representation will be shown, together with short
animated sequences demonstrating the descriptive power of the
representation.
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