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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 71
IRList Digest Sunday, 21 December 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 71
Today's Topics:
Email - vtisr1 down for a week
- More about redistribution at finhutc.earn
Query - Applying connectionism to IR performance problems
Query - Pisa Proceedings for SIGIR members
Reply - Pisa Proceedings and SIGIR finances
Announcement - Message Understanding Conference
CSLI - Resurrection of Metaphors: A Tool for Transdisciplinary Migration
News addresses are ARPANET: fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt
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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 86 17:53:22 est
From: fox (Ed Fox)
To: rick@seismo.css.gov
Subject: vtisr1
Rick:
vtisr1 is down for a week, till probably 12/30, when it will come back
up as a 3B2/310 instead of a 3B2/300, with new software. If you can hold
mail, please do so, or if you can send instead to me at another address
like
fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa
please do that.
. . .
Regards, Ed
[Note: the above is included here since there are IRList members who
use UUCP mail to correspond with IRList. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Let me wish all of you a happy Holiday Season! - Ed]
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 86 12:09 N
From: LILIUS@FINFUN.bitnet
Subject: LISTSERV usage
Hi !!
I have received several requests for subscription, but this
is not quite what I wanted.
Users wanting to subscribe from LISTSERV@FINHUTC should issue
the command TELL LISTSERV AT FINHUTC SIGNON "Name" IRLIST.
This will put you on the list. You can also issue INFO as a
command to LISTSERV. This will give you some help.
Cherio,
Johan
[Note: Thanks for clarifying things! This should help people who were
confused by the message in IRList V2 #69. - Ed]
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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 86 01:39:47 est
From: wyle@ifi.ethz.chunet
Subject: Where are the reviews, comments?
So far, only Dr. G. Salton sent me a review of the conspectus paper.
What does the readership of IRlist think of the possibilities of
applying connectionism to the IR performance problems?
Mitch Wyle wyle@ifi.ethz.chunet@relay.cs.net (arpa and csnet)
!cernvax!ethz!wyle (uucp)
[Note: this refers back to the article that made up Issue 62 - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 86 14:54 PST
To: FOXEA@VTVAX3
From: IIN4CLB@UCLAMVS.bitnet
Subject: Pisa proceedings
Ed,
Seeing the reference list for the Pisa meeting
reminds me that I have yet to receive the usual copy
of the SIGIR Forum that is the conference proccedings.
Do you know what has become of it? If not, can you
tell me who does (and his/her email address)?
Thanks in advance.
Chris
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 86 08:15:35 est
From: foxea@vtvax3
Subject: list, Pisa
Chris:
. . .
Regarding Pisa Proceedings, I made an announcement in IRList Digest
V2 #59 of 14 November about how to obtain a copy. Unfortunately, the
SIG is going to have to raise dues - with $6/year dues we are already
in the red and can't send a $18 book out! Yes it is unfortunate, and
I am sure there are many members who are unhappy about this, but unless
we raise dues way beyond the $12 now planned, we will have to stick with
this policy. We welcome comments on how else to handle this.
. . .
Regards, Ed
[Note: People can call ACM at 800-342-6626 and order Proc. 9th Int'l
SIGIR Conf. on R&D in IR for $18 ($24 for non-members) plus $3
handling. - Ed]
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 86 13:03:15 PST
From: Beth M. Sundheim <sundheim%trout@nosc.ARPA>
Subject: Conference: Message Understanding
[Forwarded from NL-KR Digest 12/16/86 Volume 1 Number 29 - Ed]
MESSAGE UNDERSTANDING CONFERENCE
Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
For the past six years, researchers at the Naval Ocean Systems Center
(NOSC) have been investigating automated processing of text in
Naval messages. These messages are characterized by all of the problems
anticipated in processing natural languages, with the problems of telegraphic
input and technical sub-languages playing prominent roles.
To get a better appreciation of relevant ongoing R & D in this area,
NOSC will host a Message Understanding Conference (MUCK) in June 1987.
Participation in this conference will be by invitation only and will be
limited to those who have technical approaches that are most promising
for the particular problem of processing military messages.
The conference will be conducted in the form of a workshop, including
software demonstrations of the technology being developed by the individual
participants. If you are involved in text processing, especially military
message processing, and are interested in participating in this conference,
contact Beth Sundheim of NOSC (sundheim@nosc).
Those who indicate an interest will receive a technical document
containing an unclassified version of a set of Naval tactical messages,
representing the types of text processing problems encountered.
Respondents will also receive details relative to the conference. Through
subsequent dialog, participants in the workshop will be selected.
G. R. ALLGAIER
Head, Artificial Intelligence Branch
By direction of the Commander
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 86 00:55:53 est
From: EMMA@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: CSLI Calendar, December 11, No. 10 [Extract - Ed]
NEXT TINLUNCH
Resurrection of Metaphors
A Tool for Transdisciplinary Migration
Egon E. Loebner
System Performance Center
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
January 8, 1987
It is proposed that some techniques which can accelerate entry into a
second scientific professional practice are analogous to the well
established deductive techniques by which many adults approach the
acquisition of a second language in a deliberate fashion. A
successful migration from one language community to another relies on
the transference of linguistic, cognitive and societal skills of
individuals from one system to a different system, which nevertheless
shares many linguistic and cultural universals with the former system.
The claim put forward here is that the very same skills are
transferred during transdisciplinary migration.
Language acquisition data, collected on four continents, strongly
suggest that "being bilingual can have tremendous advantages not only
in terms of language competencies but also in terms of cognitive and
social development" (W. E. Lambert, 1981, NYAS, Vol. 379, pp. 9-22).
I believe that becoming multidisciplinary can lead to similar
advantages in terms of professional and scientific competencies and
can induce an expanded metadisciplinary development of cognitive and
communicative skills.
The talk concentrates on the role that can be played by a
remarkable analogy, invented 131 years ago, by the world's master
builder of theory construction, James Clerk Maxwell. He defined it as
"that partial similarity between the laws of one science and those of
another which makes each of them illustrate the other". I plan to
show how such partial similarities can be extracted using textual
analyses of now dead metaphors which, while alive, aided theory
construction by, in the words of T. S. Kuhn, "calling forth a network
of similarities which help to determine the way in which (scientific)
language attaches to the world". Buttressing my argument through
reference to recent findings of linguists, philosophers,
psychologists, and educators on the role of metaphor in theory
construction and reconstruction, I plan to argue that dead metaphors
in unrelated fields are relatable if their metaphoricity had a common
origin and that these interrelations constitute a transformational
grammar that can assist in interpreting concepts of one field in terms
of the other field.
Finally I wish to suggest that the transdisciplinary migration
technique can not only enhance new discipline acquisition but can also
provide the metascientific means to integrate and unify practices and
theories in different branches of science, even in those that appear
to be quite remote at this point in history.
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