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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 32
IRList Digest Thursday, 31 July 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 32
Today's Topics:
Query - Citations for papers on machine readable dictionaries
- Availability of machine readable almanacs?
Reply - Oxford concordance program
Discussion - Differences between document files
Announcement - Job at Cambridge
- NRC and ARI Associates Program
SIGIR - News from Chairman and Forum co-editor Raghavan
- FROM THE EDITOR from next issue of SIGIR Forum
- Table of Contents from next issue of SIGIR Forum
References - ACM Trans. on Office Inf. Systems
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 86 19:49:04 EDT
From: Jim Davis <jrd@MEDIA-LAB.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Citations on dictionary papers
Could we please have the full citations for the papers by
Sherman and Peterson on Webster's 7th? I'd like to read them.
[Note: this is referring back to my msg to nwc-143b.arpa@sefai in issue 31.
References are:
1) Peterson, James L. <peterson@mcc.arpa>
Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: A Computer-Readable
File Format. TR-196, Univ. of Texas at Austin Dept. of Comp. Sci.,
May 1982.
2) Sherman, D.
A New Computer Format for Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
In Computers and Humanities, 8:21-26, 1974.
Maybe Jim will comment on this? - Ed]
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 86 06:45:18 edt
From: LEWIS@cs.umass.edu
Subject: query on almanacs
I would appreciate any information people could give me on the availability
of online almanacs or similar large bodies of broadranging statistical data.
Public domain or cheap would be preferable, of course. Please send replies to
me; if there is sufficient demand I will summarize for the digest.
Thanks, David D. Lewis
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
"well, I used to think it was LEWIS@UMASS-CS
and lately it's been LEWIS%cs.umass.edu@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
but maybe it's longer now"
[Note: perhaps amsler@mouton.arpa might make some comments? - Ed]
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Date: 28-JUL-1986 17:44:08
From: LOU%UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX1@AC.UK
Subject: Oxford concordance program
Oxford Concordance Program
I have just seen the note from Jana Lamont on IRList on 4 July.
[Note: see V2 #31 of 16 July 1986 - Ed]
The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) is sold under licence from
Oxford University Computing Service. At present there is a one-off
price of 130 pounds sterling including documentation. OCP is
is written in Fortran and is very easy to implement. It is running
at over 230 institutions throughout the world on all major
machine ranges.
For more information and an order form, mail SUSAN@VAX2.OXFORD.AC.UK
on BITNET or write to
Oxford Concordance Program
Oxford University Computing Service
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
UK
or
Phone 44-865-56721 and say that it is an enquiry about OCP
Susan Hockey
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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1986 01:24 EDT
From: James H. Coombs <JAZBO@BROWNVM.bitnet>
Subject: diff marks
[Note: see discussion in issues 24 and 31 - Ed]
I don't know of anything available to locate only "significant"
differences between document files. Presumably, such software would
have to be table driven so that the user could control what the program
treats as significant and what it ignores.
The only programs that I know of are designed to treat all differences
as significant. You might be able to "relax" these somewhat, however,
by translating your files into SOUNDEX first--that at least would
collapse most of the trivial spelling differences.
You might also consider contacting Polytron Corporation. They have a
version control system with a builtin comparator that appears to be very
sophisticated. Their program is a little expensive (ca. $350), so I am
not optimistic about their cooperating with you on a special project.
It might be worth a phone call, however.
"Significant" troubles me. Sounds as though you need a parser; perhaps
a semantic interpreter as well. If you can settle for something like
"at least five words in sequence have been changed," then the problem
should be quite manageable. There are several good DIFF/COMPARE
programs floating around for PCs, and I bet the authors would be happy
to consult, sell source code, etc.
1) Polytron Corporation [product is PVCS]
PO Box 787
Hillsboro, OR 97123
(503) 648-8595
2) Seven Valleys Software
I have the source (in C) for their Compare and Update programs.
It includes 'ignore case', 'ignore white space between words',
'resync on n lines'. If you have a programmer, this might be a
good start. Let me know if you want me to send this. An ARC
file would be most convenient, but I can send it as ASCII as well.
(Yes, this is legal.)
Author:
Cheyenne C. Wills
12 West Locust St.
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17055
(717) 697-5198
Written for:
Seven Valley's Software
P.O. Box 99
Glen Rock, Pa 17327
3) I have C source for another by
Charles Daney
19567 Dorchester Drive
Saratoga, CA 95070
(408) 257-8440
4) Chris Dunford wrote an "HDIFF" for a prototypical source code control
system. I don't have the source for this, but Dunford seems to be a
good programmer and might be interested in discussing possibilities.
Christopher J. Dunford
10057-2 Windstream Drive
Columbia, Maryland 21044
CompuServe 76703,2002
Source STR211
It sounds as though you must have an interesting application in mind, but
it is hard to tell just what you need. In any case, I would like to hear
more about it. --Jim
Acknowledge-To: <JAZBO@BROWNVM>
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 86 16:38:23 BST
From: William Clocksin <wfc%cam.cl@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Subject: Job
The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is
looking for a faculty member to strengthen A.I. in the
Laboratory. No very detailed specification is put upon
candidates. We are looking for someone with a fairly
down-to-earth approach who nevertheless has a proper
grasp of theory, who will extend or complement the present
range of interests. People in the Lab active in the area
include Boguraev, Clocksin, Gordon, Sparck-Jones, and
Pulman. The Lab is also active in functional programming,
logic, and verification.
Send a c.v., list of publications, and the names of not
more than three referees to: Secretary of the Appointments
Committee, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge,
Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K. as soon as
possible.
For more information, contact William Clocksin
(wfc@uk.ac.cam.cl or wfc%cam.cl@cs.ucl.arpa)
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Date: 21 Jul 86 12:33:00 EDT
From: "PSOTKA, JOSEPH" <psotka@ari-hq1.ARPA>
Subject: NRC Announcement for Associates Program
The National Research Council (NRC) and the Army Research Institute
(ARI) are entering an agreement to provide recent graduates and
established scientists an opportunity to compete for research
associate awards. The Associateship Program with ARI will focus on
Intelligent Training Systems (ITS) research. Ideally the candidate
would be interested in research on semantic memory, knowledge
representation, qualitative modelling, student modelling,
causal reasoning, or any of the other important research topics
connected with ITS. There are two levels of competition: recent
Ph.D.s (5 yrs and under ) and senior scientists (more than 5 yrs).
Associates are expected to work some time at ARI. Tenure is for one
to two years. Stipend varies from about $25,000 on up, to be
negotiated. Official applications are to the NRC, but for more
information, contact:
Joseph Psotka, Ph.D. Army Research Institute 5001 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria,
Va 22333-5600
(202)274-5540 PSOTKA@ARI-HQ1
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST
From: Vijay V. Raghavan <RAGHAVAN@UREGINA1.bitnet>
Subject: Clem's request
Dear Ed,
Clem phoned me yesterday. He asked me to remind you to include in
future IR digests information on SIGIR conf. 86, and conf. 87.
...
With Regards, Vijay
[Note: Clem [Yu] is chairman of ACM SIGIR and Vijay is one of the
two co-editors of ACM SIGIR Forum; I am the other. Please note
comments in the next msg about the SIGIR Conference for 1986.
Further details will be given in next issue of IRList. We
also hope that Don Kraft <kraft@lsu.csnet> will send an electronic
version of call for papers for 1987 conference to be included in a
future IRList issue. - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST
From: Vijay V. Raghavan <RAGHAVAN@UREGINA1.bitnet>
Subject: FROM THE EDITOR - taken from next issue of SIGIR Forum
The purpose of this note is two fold: first, I want to highlight
some of the contents of this issue; secondly, I want to mention
a few items of general interest that are not included elsewhere
in the Forum.
Starting on Page 2, there is the preliminary program of the 9th
Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference to be held in Pisa,
Italy this Fall. Also included is the registration information.
SIGIR members will NOT receive a separate mailing of this
information. On pages 7 through 17, the first installment of
summaries of papers given at the Workshop on Foundations of
Adaptive Information processing are included. The workshop was
sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and the
Computer Science Department of the University of Regina, and was
held in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 10-11, 1985. The
workshop followed the ACM/SIGIR annual international conference
on research and development in information retrieval, held in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the previous week. The remaining
summaries will appear in future issues of the Forum. Another
interesting item in this issue is the report by M. Lesk on the
workshop held last November at the Waterloo's Center for the New
OED. As is usually the case, abstracts of articles recently
published in journals in the area are also included. The program
highlights for ASIS annual conference (pp. 46-48) mentions the
special sessions I have put together on behalf of SIGIR.
Now for a few items of general interest:
- The IR-list Digest, an electronic medium for communication
between reseachers/practitioners in the field is alive and
well. Ed Fox (address in back of front cover) is the co-
ordinator of the IR-list Digest;
- While there are enough items being submitted to make up
issues of Forum, I always wonder how well received and
interesting this publication is. I would like to see at least
one or two technical papers in each issue. I need your help
in this regard. I would also like to receive feedback and
criticisms, which may help make the Forum attractive to most
subscribers;
- For the year 1986-87, I have accepted a faculty position at
the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Anyone wishing to
correspond with me should use the address shown on the back
of the front cover.
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST
From: Vijay V. Raghavan <RAGHAVAN@UREGINA1.bitnet>
Subject: SIGIR FORUM Contents
SPRING-SUMMER 1986 CONTENTS Volume 20 Issue 1-4
SIGIR NEWS
>From the Forum Editor ............................... 1
Preliminary Program & Registration Information
SIGIR-86 Conference in Pisa, Italy .............. 2
Summary of Papers Presented at University
of Regina Workshop in June, 1985 (Part 1)
Metric Data Models and Associated
Search Strategies ............................... 7
Research into Fuzzy Extensions of
Information Retrieval ........................... 12
A Unified Approach for Artificial Intelligence
and Information Retrieval ....................... 14
A Concept-learning Information Retrieval
System-Basic Ideas .............................. 16
Workshop Report
Information in Data: using the Oxford
English Dictionary on a Computer ................ 18
Book Review
Information and Misinformation: An Investigation
of the Notions of Information, Misinformation,
Informing and Misinforming by C. J. Fox ......... 22
Abstracts of Articles in IR Area
Selected from Recent Issues of Journals ......... 23
Selected from 1984 Issues of Journals ........... 30
Announcement
Syracuse University School of Information
Studies ......................................... 42
Call for Papers
ACM SIGIR 1987 International Conference
on Research and Development in IR ............... 43
GI Conference on Database Systems for Office
Automation, Engineering and Scientific
Applications .................................... 45
Program Highlights
1986 Annual Meeting of ASIS ..................... 46
FJCC '86 ........................................ inside of
back cover
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 86 18:40:32 edt
From: rba@LAFITE.BELLCORE.COM
Subject: April 86 issue of ACM Trans. on Office Inf. Systems
Papers appearing in:
ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems
April, 1986
Communications Design in Co-oP: A Group Decision Support System.
T.X. Bui and M. Jarke
A Society Model for Office Information Systems.
C-S Ho, Y-C Hong, and T-S Hong
BARQUE: A Browser for Relational Databases
A. Motro
A System for Generating Direct Manipulation Office Systems
S. Hudson and R. King
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