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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 61
IRList Digest Thursday, 27 November 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 61
Today's Topics:
Email - Why multiple copies of #57?
- People at SMU (and comment on TR collection for IR)
Query - References on NLP Techniques in IR (clarification)
Reply - References and Information on Brain Hemispheres
Discussion - Dissertation Abstracts for IR?
- AIList handling of dissertation abstracts etc.
Call for Papers - SIGIR87 Conf. and Possible Funds for Travel
Seminar - Recent Research Advances in IR
Abstracts - Last Year's ASLIB Conf. at Wadham College
News addresses are ARPANET: fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 86 13:15 EST
From: Thomas Kunselman <CCSTK%CCOL.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU>
Subject: Re: IRList Digest V2
For some reason I received 5 copies of this file, Vol 2 Issue 57.
Just thought I would let you know in case the problem is on your end.
Thanks,
[Note: I sent only 1 to the distribution point, but you and I and a
number of others received multiple copies. We have not been able to
figure out the cause but it seems to not have happened since. I look
forward to when Virginia Tech is on the Internet (hopefully only a
matter of months now! Meanwhile, all I can do is apologize. - Ed]
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 86 00:32:45 est
From: E1AR0002%SMUVM1.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Subject: People at SMU, TR accumulation for IRList
...
As you know, the mailer was broken here and you took us off the irlist
mailing list. Also, Dr. Korfhage and one of the graduate students
working on information retrieval is now in Pittsburgh. ...
Dr. Eich will be teaching information retrieval next semester and
wants to see a copy or two to see if it would help her class.
...
I am still accumulating IR related materials from AILIST and TRLIST
for you.
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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 86 01:27:19 est
From: guindon%milano.sw.mcc.com@MCC.COM
Subject: Query: Text processing techniques and document retrieval
I would like any references on text processing techniques
(parsing, discourse analysis, etc.) that have been applied
for the purposes of document/information retrieval.
I am not interested in natural language interfaces per se,
but rather in the processing of the documents to be retrieved.
If such a bibliography does not exist, I would volunteer
building one from the received references.
Thanks
Raymonde Guindon
[Note: Thanks for clarifying the request that you sent earlier, which
appeared in IRList V2 #58. I hope that people will send you info on
their work, and look forward to receiving a bibliography from you for
IRList and possibly for SIGIR Forum. - Ed]
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Date: 12 Nov 86 20:57:42 PST (Wednesday)
Subject: re: Brain Hemispheres
From: "Earle_Kyle.WBST102a"@Xerox.COM
In response to the request for info on this (see below) I will be
sending you a few items from my extensive files on the general subject
of brain research in separate packages for ease of tossing away as you
see fit. Would appreciate it, though, if you would forward all to the
requestor as I couldn't figure out how to get through. I don't think
any of this really belongs on this dl so wouldn't advise broadcasting it
in your digest.
Earle Kyle
Xerox Corp. 102-19A
Webster, NY 14580
(716)422-3133
kyle.wbst@xerox.com
[Note: the request mentioned was in V2 #57. I am sending the
forwarded messages to ocbno@utkvx4.bitnet, who might want to send us
all a (short) summary of what relates to Information Science.
Thanks Earle! - Ed]
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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 86 01:29:15 est
From: mkh%sevax.prg.oxford.ac.uk@CS.UCL.AC.UK
Subject: Six character limit in indxbib
In IRList Digest V2 #53, Mitchell Wyle <wyle@ethz.uucp> writes:
For starters, I shall use Unix's addbib, sortbib, roffbib, indxbib,
lookbib suite of programs. The manuals say that one can change the
options of indxbib when it stems, stop lists etc. I have found the list
of the 100 most common words (/usr/lib/refer/eign), but I can't
figure out how to change the stemming from 6 characters. Can someone
out their in IRdigest-land help?
[Note: Perhaps Mike Lesk will read this or someone else at Bellcore
will prod him to ask about this? - Ed]
Any information on this would be very welcome here too - we are currently
using indxbib/lookbib etc. and the lower-level utilities they call as the
basis of our (small and rudimentary) online catalogue, but are having
problems with false drops caused by this 6 character limit.
David Brown, Librarian,
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
<library%prg.oxford.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 23:10 EDT
From: KROVETZ%cs.umass.edu@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA
To: ailist-request@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA
Subject: AI-related dissertations
[Note: this was forwarded by Ken Laws; see next msg. - Ed]
Ken,
Laurence Leff asked a question in a recent AIList about
the SIGART feature on AI-related dissertations. I compile
that list (along with a former co-worker, Susanne Humphrey).
I think the information could be forwarded to AIList if
you'd like me to. I spoke to the person at Dissertation
Abstracts International some time ago about making the
list available electronically, and she didn't think it
would be a problem, but said that I would have to write
a letter asking for formal permission. SIGART just
contains notices of the dissertations; Computational
Linguistics gets a stripped down version with just the
stuff related to natural language plus some stuff on
knowledge representation, but they also publish the abstracts.
If you'd like the information sent to AIList, would you
want just the notices, or the abstracts as well? Considering
the distribution that AIList gets, I think the abstracts
might be too much, but then again there's a fair amount
of volume in the bibliographies that get sent out.
On a side note: I've been trying to pursue a pet idea
I've had for some time - establishing a network library
for computer science tech reports and dissertations.
I've spoken with people at the CSNET information center,
and they thought it was a great idea, but the problem
is how to get it funded. What I have in mind is something
like the info-server that already exists. I've spoken with
people at the defense data network and NTIS, but couldn't
get anywhere. I'm trying to pursue avenues at NSF, but
unfortunately it doesn't fit neatly into any of their
"designated categories", and the group that deals with
miscellaneous stuff was recently eliminated. I'm still
going to keep trying, but any suggestions would be appreciated.
If it ever gets established, I hope to use it for some
post-doctoral work (I want to do my dissertation on conceptual
information retrieval).
-bob
krovetz@umass.csnet
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 86 02:17:46 edt
From: LAWS@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA
To: krovetz%cs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net
Subject: Dissertation Notices
[Note: The following message was sent along with the one above to me
and I feel they are both of interest to readers, but are easiest to
follow in the order given here. - Ed]
I'm forwarding your message to Lawrence Leff and Ed Fox since they may
have some comments.
Thanks for your offer. I agree that the abstracts would be too much
for AIList to publish, although I'm sure there are some readers who would
like as much text as possible (if only for their keyword searches). The
problem is that AIList is a broadcast medium, and it doesn't make sense to
broadcast more than people are willing to read.
The dissertation notices would be welcome. I do have negative feelings
about stealing 10% of SIGART's content, but I suppose the audiences and
archival properties are different. Certainly the retrieval properties
are different. I leave it up you whether you want to submit the
notices; if you do, I will forward them. Alternatively, you might submit
them to Lawrence and he could incorporate them in his bibliography.
I also have a desire to reduce the volume of AIList, which is taking so much
of my time that I can't afford to send for and read any of the material
appearing in these bibliographies. Everyone seems reasonably happy with
the status quo, but if we were all paying for the network services and the
man-hours spent reading this material, I wonder how many of us would ante up.
The problem, again, is the broadcast nature of the list. There really should
be a database server or perhaps umpteen sublists (as on Usenet) rather than
one linear stream. AIList does serve as a useful forum for the interaction
of many disciplines, but it really wouldn't harm anyone if there were separate
lists for seminars, conferences, and bibliographies. A good database server
would obviate the need to broadcast such messages at all, thus saving a lot
of Arpanet bandwidth.
Lawrence has already been building a database of CS reports. I'm not sure
of the details, but he's definitely the man to talk to. Ed Fox is plugged
into the information retrieval community and has an AIList retrieval system.
Feel free to ask the list readership about these matters if you want more
feedback.
-- Ken Laws
[Note: I have contacted the parties involved and asked for
appropriate permissions so that we can publish dissertation
information in IRList and SIGIR Forum. I welcome comments by readers
on this topic. I too feel that there is need to support network
distribution of information in a more orderly way than now must take
place - but I guess we are all in the middle of an evolutionary phase
of the transition to electronic publishing. - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 86 15:41:10 cst
From: Don <kraft%lsu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>
Subject: Re: news for Europeans about New Orleans?
There is a reasonable possibility, albeit far from definite yet, that we will
be getting some funds to support partial support for travel for non-U.S.
scholars to attend the ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and
Development in Information Retrieval, to be held at the Monteleone Hotel in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, on June 3-5, 1987. Extended abstracts or
papers are due on December 15, 1986, as stated in the Call for Papers,
published previously in IRList. Anyone interested in being considered for
a travel stipend should contact me as soon as possible, under the optimistic
assumption that we will get funded.
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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 86 13:33:17 est
From: fox (Ed Fox)
Subject: Graduate Seminar Series - talk by Dr. Abraham Bookstein
Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
Graduate Seminar Series - 11/18/86 @ 4pm
Recent Research Advances in Information Retrieval
Dr. Abraham Bookstein
Graduate Library School
University of Chicago
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 18:08:50 -0100
From: Wyle <seismo!mcvax!ifi.ethz.chunet!wyle>
Subject: More new references
Here are some entries from an Aslib conference at
Wadham College last year:
%A T Addis
%T Extended relational analysis: a design approach to
knowledge-based systems
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%A D Parkinson
%T Supercomputers and non-numeric processing
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%A D R McGregor
%A J R Malone
%T An architectural approach to advances in information retrieval
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%A M J Allen
%A O S Harrison
%T Word processing and information retrieval - some
practical problems
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Clustering and nearest neighbour searching
%A F Murtagh
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Experimenting with the automatic classification of books
%A P G Enser
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T An analysis of ranking for free text retrieval systems
%A N Teskey
%Z Z Raznak
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Interactive information retrieval: an artificial intelligence
to deal with biographical data
%A G P Zarri
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T A case system processor for the PRECIS indexing language
%A P Hancox
%A F Smith
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Linguistic methods in information retrieval systems
%A J Rouault
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Design of a system for the online elucidation of
natural language search statements
%A V Aragon-Ramirez
%A C D Paice
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Problem descriptions and user models: developing an
intelligent interface for document retrieval systems
%A H M Brooks
%A P J Daniels
%A Belkin
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T Information retrieval aids in an online public access catalogue:
automatic intelligent search sequencing
%A N N Mitev
%A S Walker
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T HEADS: A Cataloguing advisory system
%A W J Black
%A P Hargreaves
%A P B Mayes
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
%T An architecture for integrating data, knowledge, and
information bases
%A D A Bell
%B Informatics 8: Advances in intelligent retrieval
%I Aslib, Information House
%C 26-27 Boswell St, London WC1N3JZ
%E M Rowbottom
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