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IRList Digest Volume 2 Number 58
IRList Digest Tuesday, 11 November 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 58
Today's Topics:
Query - References on text processing/NLP approaches to IR
Announcement - New Digest for Writers and Educators
Seminar - Knowledge Gateways: Building Blocks and Beyond
Article - Y. Choueka of RESPONSA Project at Bellcore on Sabbatical
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: Mon, 3 Nov 86 13:18:01 CST
From: Raymonde Guindon <seismo!mcc.com!guindon>
Subject: references/bibliography for text processing approaches
Cc: guindon%sw.mcc.com@mcc.com
I am looking for any references on text processing/
natural language processing approaches to retrieval of
information from documents. If such biblio has not
been done, I'd volunteer to create it from the received
responses. One example of such work is by Michael
Mauldin (IRlist, May 22).
Thanks
Raymonde Guindon
[Note: this is a broad subject area! When you say "text processing"
you open up discussion to most of the information retrieval work done
in past decades, and when you mention NLP that might suggest a wide
area of AI work. Can you clarify, or do you really want everything
implied by your statement? Issues 52-54 had references on
automatic indexing; are you focusing only on retrieval or on document
analysis and indexing too? Are you concerned with bibliographic
references or on abstracts or on full text or on passages in full
text?. I suggest that whatever you produce be somehow
organized -- maybe you might make it in the form of a course outline
with references attached at the leaves of the outline tree. I suggest
that along with people sending you items, that we have more discussion
by IRList participants on how to develop such bibliographies as an
ongoing service to the community. I believe Dr. J. Deken of NSF was
interested in development of such bibliographies, and that a truly
cooperative effort might be very beneficial. I would be happy to have
a very long bibliography published occassionally in SIGIR Forum if
that will help the process. - Ed]
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 86 09:09 EDT
From: <COMPOS01@ULKYVX> (Composition Digest)
Organization: University of Louisville
Subject: New Moderated Digest for Writers and Educators Announced
This is to announce a new interest group devoted to the study of computers
and writing, specifically writing instruction in computer-based classrooms.
We are interested in articles pertaining to, but not limited by, the
following topics:
Human/Factors research and writing environments
Text editor design
Natural Language adjuncts to writing instruction
Computers and the soft sciences
Psychological effects of computer writing/instruction
Composition theory applied to computer-based instruction
Anecdotal accounts of computer writing experiences
Using the NET in the classroom
Computer-based conferences
Public domain software for the classroom
Reviews of writing and editing packages
Conference announcements and proceedings
Telecommunications and its effects on language
Writing without paper
Computers and hearing impaired students
Computers and learning disabled students
Computers and basic writers
Computers and humanists
Computers and writing professionals
This will be a moderated newsgroup with issues released weekly. It will be
a forum for writing professionals (those who must use computers for their
writing) and computing professionals (those who design the hardware and
software that writers depend upon) to meet and discuss issues relevant to
both fields, but we welcome notes from novice computer writers. Notes and
requests to be included on a mailing list should be sent to
BITNET: compos01@ulkyvx.bitnet
ARPA: compos01%ulkyvx.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 86 01:47:00 EDT
From: seismo!allegra!hoqam!wbf
Subject: Misc., Seminar
Ed,
Thanks for forwarding the messages about the reuse paper. Have you sent
copies to the two people who were interested, or should I? By the way,
the paper has been accepted for the HICCS conference next January. Brian
and I are planning to rewrite parts of the paper, and also do further
work in this area. I'll keep you posted.
[Note: the paper mentioned appeared in Issues 47-49 and should have
been received by all. - Ed]
...
Don Hawkins and Louis Levy of the library system were down last week
and gave us an interesting talk on knowledge gateways. I've included
the abstract of their talk.
...
Bill
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QAC RESEARCH SEMINAR
TITLE: Knowledge Gateways: Building Blocks and Beyond
SPEAKERS: Donald T. Hawkins and Louise R. Levy
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
DATE: Friday, October 10, 1986
TIME: 2 pm
LOCATION: HO 2N-431
ABSTRACT
Technological advances over the past two decades have made
data retrieval faster and easier. Some progress has even
been made towards increasing the relevancy of the data
obtained by the information user. Meanwhile, a whole
industry providing access to business, professional, and
sci/tech information electronically has sprung up. Despite
these activities, information sources remain scattered, hard
to find, and difficult to access. It remains the task of
technology and visionary individuals to build knowledge
gateways capable of leading knowledge-seekers to the needed
information, wherever it may be stored.
This talk will discuss the following topics relating to
gateways:
o Definition
o State of the art
o Technologies (building blocks)
o Examples of some gateways
o Visions of the future
SPONSOR: Bill Frakes HO 2H-530 x7186 hoqam!wbf
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 86 15:37:48 edt
From: choueka@thunder.bellcore.com (Yaacov Choueka)
Subject: Re: research in IR
Thanks for your note and sorry for my late response. I found what I was looking
for in a note by Salton in Forum 1980.
[Note: this refers back to the question in Issue 55 - Ed]
...
I am in Bellcore since sept., and will be here
for one year. I certainly hope to be able to visit a few inst. in the US,
and to have some talks about problems of mutual interest. Were exactly in
Virginia are you located? By the way it is possible now to connect to the
database in Israel from anywhere in the US using a simple PC with a modem
and a regular tel. line,via Telenet or Tymnet,and I am connected ,for example ,
from Bellcore. so live demonstrations of the system can be given.
I am appending a memo sent reecently to a few people in Bellcore,that will
remind you of us. Best regards.
LET'S GET ACQUAINTED
I just arrived from Israel, on a sabbatical from the
dept. of Math. and Comp. Sc. at Bar. Ilan Univ., invited by
Don Walker to spend a year of research at Bellcore.(You can
easily recognize me by the knitted "Kippah" I have usually
on my head).
Judging from the few days I am already here, I do have
wild expectations for a very interesting and fruitful year.
I am already overimpressed by this Garden of Eden of equipment
and hardware, in which so many Suns are shining, and in which
no fruit seems to be forbidden, except maybe for (what else)
Apples...
I am sure I am going to learn a lot here, although,
hopefully, it will be a mutually enriching experience.
I am bringing with me almost twenty years of experience in
teaching and research in computer science, some of it (in the
early years) in finite automata and formal languages theory,
but most of it in information retrieval, computational
linguistics and text processing.
I was part of the team that initiated the RESPONSA
project back in 1966, and I serve as its Director and Principal
Investigator since 1975.This is basically a full-text retrieval
system, one of the very first to be operational on a sizable
data base. The batch version was ready in 1968,and the On-line
version in 1980.The database consists today of some seventy
million words of running text in Hebrew, representing major
parts of the Jewish Heritage and classical writings. The largest
part of the database is the Responsa ("questions and answers")
collections, containing the full and unaltered text of 250
volumes (50,000 documents) of Rabbinical "answers", each
document being in fact a juridical decision given according to
the Jewish-Talmudic legal system, and related to an actual case
presented to a Rabbinical court or brought to the attention of a
prominent Rabbi, from various Jewish communities all over the
world.
The database, spanning about a thousand years and
originating from more than thirty different countries, is a
fantastic storehouse of information on Jewish law ,history,
philosophy, ethics, local customs and folklore. The system is
available On-line 24 hours a day, six days a week (never on
Saturdays and Jewish Holidays !) and can be accessed by PC's
with regular telephone lines via telecommunications networks
(Tymnet or Telenet, Isranet, etc.).It is routinely accessed by
tens of workstations in Israel, as well as from Chicago,
Los-Angeles and London. It is expected that in the next couple
of years hundreds of terminals will be connected to the system
in major universities, libraries, information centers, Jewish
institutions, etc., in the United States and in Europe.
I hope to be able to connect to the system and to demonstrate
it here in Bellcore soon. The software, by the way, has been
adapted for English databases too, and can handle quite large
ones (several hundreds of megabytes of text).
Besides serving the real needs of a real community of
users, the system is also used as an experimental laboratory
for information retrieval, computational linguistics and text
processing. Three Ph.d. and about fifteen graduate theses were
written in this environment. Some of the areas researched are:
feedback in document retrieval systems, text compression
(on both experimental and theoretical levels), character
manipulation, spelling errors' detection and correction,
automatic lemmatization, mechanical resolution of morphological
ambiguity, retrieval of collocations and idioms, expert systems
for citations' retrieval, etc. .
Among the many unique features available in the system
that distinguish it from currently available full-text packages
is a full-fledged morphological component embedded in the
retrieval part, as well as a subsystem that gives correct and
full morphological analysis of any word in Hebrew (the number of
which is estimated to be in the order of a hundred million).
I am now preparing a short report on the Project with
some more details on the research associated with it, including
references to published papers. The report will be distributed
to the 21230 division ,but if you know of anybody else who might
be interested in it, please let me know.
I will be happy to discuss any of papers to be
mentioned in this report with anyone who would be interested
in this, as well as to have informal talks with small groups if
there is any echo to this note... .
"The beginning of wisdom is to acquire wisdom..." (Proverbs)
Yaacov Choueka (pronounced Shweka)
MRE-2A325, #8295175.
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