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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 31
IRList Digest Wednesday, 16 July 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 31
Today's Topics:
Query - Information on bulletin boards
- Original request
Discussion - Text Analysis software [See issue 24, 21 May]
Discussion - Ptrs on bit configuration representation of words
- Further clarification of original query [See issue 29]
EMAIL - Change in member address
SIGIR - News from Forum co-editor Raghavan
- Call for contributions for fall issue of SIGIR Forum
Research Interest - Library automation
Report - ACL Conference
Announcement - AAP author guidelines: simple and detailed
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Date: Tue 15 Jul 86 12:04:09-PDT
From: David Erickson <ERICKSON@sushi.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Re: information on IRList Digest
Ed,
thanks for the information about IRList - perhaps my original query would
have been better directed if sent to IRList. If you still have a copy, could
you distribute it? If not, let me know, and I will mail one.
Thanks,
Dave
[Note: as Dave indicates, I have answered his query for IRList. Others who
have affiliation with different bulletin boards may wish to examine
the message below and reply directly to Dave with information. - Ed]
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Date: Wed 9 Jul 86 08:55:31-PDT
From: David Erickson <ERICKSON@su-sushi.arpa>
Subject: Education Bulletin Boards & Lists
I would like to compile a list of bulletin boards with an educational focus.
I am primarily interested in BBs which are distributed either as lists or in
digest format, such as AI-ED or VPL-LIST.
If you know of such a bulletin board, or better yet, have such a list, please
send the information directly to me and I will summarize to AI-ED. Please
include a brief description of the bulletin board:
Net address for requests to be added to distribution list
Format (Digest, List, ...)
Focus
Primary user community
How active is it
General comments
- Dave
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Date: 4 July 1986, 13:45:02 MDT
Subject: test analysis program
From: JLAMONT@UALTAVM.bitnet
Ed:
I would like to thank you VERY much for sending me back issues of IRLIST
DIGEST again. In reading them I happened to notice in issue 24 of
May 21/1986 under the subject 'diff marks' that someone is looking for
a textual analysis software. A program I am familiar with is called
Oxford Concordance Program developed by the Oxford University in England.
This program enables the user to analyze text that is stored in a computer
file. It is very easy to use and has many features such as creation of
concordances, a keyword list, a word list, a frequency count, or a
grammatical analysis. It can accommodate texts in a variety of languages
and alphabets. Among the program's applications are the following:
study of style, vocabulary distribution, rhyme schemes, and language study
and teaching. Extensive documentation and manual is available from Oxford.
I will gladly provide more information to anyone interested.
Jana Lamont, U of A
[Note: I revised the reference to 'diff marks' to match what I could
find in old IRList issues. The program mentioned here sounds
interesting, even if it is not quite what Donna Williamson was asking
for in her original query. - Ed]
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From: fox
Date: Thu Jul 3 10:28 EDT 1986
To: nwc-143b.arpa@sefai
Subject: bit configurations
[Note: this refers back to query in issue 29 of 3 July. - Ed]
Gene:
I am unclear about what you mean by "bit configurations to represent
words" and so will ask some questions to try to pin that down.
1) Are you interested in papers on how to store dictionaries to be
accessed as databases? There is a published paper by Sherman
and a tech report by Peterson, that are about Webster's 7th -- both
are fairly old. There are also some even older ones. Work is now
underway at Waterloo at Centre for New OED on this issue too.
2) Are you interested in superimposed coding for partial matches?
There has been work at Melbourne University, and implementation of
their methods of indexing Prolog facts for partial match retrieval,
which I make use of in our dictionary project here. That is in
Muprolog, the db version. There are papers by Naish and others
on this.
Any other comments on what you are looking for in particular would
help. Have you looked at recent ACL proceedings?
Good luck and Happy 4th of July! - Ed
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From: nwc-143b.ARPA@sefai
Date: 9 Jul 86 12:04:00 PST
Subject: Some clarifications.
Ed,
In regards to your last message for clarification on "bit configurations",
let me try to explain by an illustration. Suppose I store a
vocabulary list in a table of some sort and define two fields: one
for the actual word and the other for the word's definition. Once this
is set up, I generate a unique key based on each word and its
definition, and create a front-end program that manipulates these keys.
This program would map the input language words to this key, determine
if sentence is syntactically and semantically correct by some means, then
map to the output language. For example, suppose the concept of a house is
defined by the key "HS78JK"; in English, the key translates to "house";
in Italian, the key translates to "casa"; .... I would think that I should
be able to map most of the words in one language to equivalent words
in another language.
Has anyone looked at the idea of this kind of key and if so, how did they
generate it? In addition, what concepts are dominating today for possible
ways to represent definitions? (I think I've opened Pandora's box on this one).
At the AI Conference in Anaheim at the end of April, I asked this question of
various companies putting out natural language interfaces. Some companies
couldn't answer because they said it was proprietary information, others
didn't know. (salesmen!)
Does all this make sense or am I off the deep end? -- Gene
...
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 86 01:01:04 edt
From: Vshank%Weizmann.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject: Change of electronic address
Effective July 27th, 1986 I will no longer be at Weizmann. My new
Bitnet electronic address will be: HANK@BARILVM
Mail sent to Vshank@Weizmann will be forwarded to my new address
for a period of 2 months, after which, it will disappear into
random electronic pulses somewhere over the Mediterranean Ocean.
I will be at my new id starting August 3rd, 1986.
Cheers,
Hank
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1986 14:53 CST
From: Vijay V. Raghavan <RAGHAVAN@UREGINA1.bitnet>
Subject: submission to and status of Forum
Dear Ed,
...
After getting info. on Pisa conference, we decided to also include the
call for papers for the 87 conference to be in New Orleans. After getting
that, I had a call from ASIS saying I might include some stuff on
their Fall meeting since SIGIR has a special session as a part of
that meeting. I finally got all the material together and the Forum
issue has been finalized. Due to the lateness of it, I decided to
make the issue coming out Spring-Summer 86. That is, there will not
be another issue until Fall.
...
I will be at Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana for 1986-87. My address
is mentioned in the inside front cover of Forum. I don't have an
account set up for me yet. I will ask them to call it 'RAGHAVAN'.
When done, my electronic address should be raghavan@usl.csnet.
I expect to be there from August 10, 1986.
...
I will mail you abstracts that I have included in the Spring-Summer
issue of Forum later today(providing our flexlink between VAX and IBM
systems is alive)for the digest. I will also send the electronic
version of the table of contents. Vijay
[Note: look forward to this information on SIGIR Forum issue soon! It
is a very informative issue. - Ed]
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Date: Wed Jul 16 08:22 EDT 1986
From: fox
Subject: address for SIGIR Forum submissions
Please send all contributions for Fall 1986 issue of ACM SIGIR Forum
to co_editor:
- Ed Fox (BITNET[cheapest]:foxea@vtvax3 or foxea%vtvax3.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa;
CSNET:fox@vt;Internet:fox%vtisr1.uucp@seismo.css.gov;UUCP:seismo!vtisr1!fox)
Dr. Edward A. Fox; Dept. of Computer Science; 562 McBryde Hall
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061; (703) 961-5113 or 6931
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 10 September. Many thanks for
your assistance.
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Date: 10 Jul 1986, 12:36:26
From: (James Heilik) <USERLIJM@UALTAMTS.bitnet>
Subject: appropriateness of IRList
[Note: this msg is composed from several sent. It illustrates
interests of some of our members. Comments on such efforts and
discussion of library automation work is most certainly appropriate
for IRList Digest. - Ed]
...
Some of us at the University of Alberta library are interested
in joining your IRList.
...
I am still not sure how appropriate our membership is. We are not
involved in research work per se; our main project at the moment is
the mounting of a public access on-line catalog. We have a pilot
version operating now with about 65 terminals and 350,000 records.
Aiming for mid September for the big production one.
...
Thanks for the back issues of IRList. For our library installation,
we are building on IBM's DOBIS/LIBIS. Cataloguing data from the
bibliographic utility UTLAS.
...
Regards, Jim Heilik
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Date: Sun 13 Jul 86 20:10:27-PDT
From: Martha Evens <EVENS@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA>
Subject: ACL Meeting Report
ACL MEETING
The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics was held at Columbia University in New York City from
June 10-13, 1986. There were six half-day tutorials on June 10:
Introduction to Computational Linguistics by Ralph Grishman, Natural
Language Generation by Kathleen McKeown, Structuring the Lexicon by
Robert Ingria, Recent Developments in Syntactic Theory by Anthony Kroch,
Current Approaches to Natural Language Semantics by Graeme Hirst, and
Machine translation by Sergei Nirenburg. Paper sessions and forums on
special issues were held June 11-13. Workers in Information Retrieval might be
particularly interested in the papers on morphology by Byrd, Church, and Barton,
the papers on question-answering by Guindon and Stallard, and the forum on machine translation featuring John White, Matin Kay, and Margaret King. There
were in addition fourteen exhibits including six book publishers. A copy of
the Proceedings may be obtained from Dr. Donald E. Walker at Bell
Communications Research, 445 South Street, MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960.
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From: fox
Date: Sat Jul 12 17:33 EDT 1986
Subject: AAP Announces Author's Guide for Electronic Manuscript Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ----- June 27, 1986
For additional information contact: Carol A. Risher, (202) 232-3335
AAP, 2005 Mass. Ave., N.W., Wash. DC 20036
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has prepared four guidebooks
to assist authors and editors in using the AAP Standard for Preparation
and Markup of Electronic Manuscripts. These books are available from AAP
[Note: contact Ms. Risher regarding ordering - the charge is nominal - Ed]
The first volume, the "Author's Guide", explains how to use the AAP
Provisional Standard for the Preparation and Markup of Electronic
Manuscripts. In non-technical language, the Author's Guide instructs
an author in the basic steps necessary to prepare a manuscript with
AAP markup so that the electronic file can be efficiently transferred
to a publisher. The Author's Guide covers the most basic rules for
AAP markup.
The second volume, the "Reference Manual on Electronic Manuscript
Preparation and Markup," provides information on how to prepare more
complex manuscripts that may include simple tabular material. It
explains more about the provisional standard and includes a compre-
hensive listt of all manuscript elements and their associated tags.
The first two guides should provide introduction and markup procedures
for a large body of non-technical publications.
The third volume, "Markup of Mathematical Formulas," expands on the
basic concepts described in the first two guides. This guide
describes markup rules for mathematical formulas that will be embedded
in text and for marking up stand-alone mathematical formulas. This
markup scheme can be used by technical and non-technical
professionals. It uses only the standard characters (ISO 646 and
ASCII) recognized by most devices involved in electronic manuscript
transmission and processing.
The fourth volume, "Markup of Tabular Material," describes the tagging
scheme for denoting both simple, single-cell tabular materials and
detailed, complex tables.
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