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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 01
IRList Digest Saturday, 17 January 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Editorial - Past, Present, Future of IRList
- Revised Welcome Message
Announcement - ACM/SIGIR Conference travel grants available
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: Thu Jan 15 18:22 EST 1987
From: fox
Subject: Past, Present and Future
This is the first issue of IRList Digest in 1987. There were 28 digests in
1985 and 71 in 1986. Presently, there are 249 recipients, of which 36
are distribution lists -- so there are well over 250 readers.
Addresses are for various parts of the DARPA Internet, for UUCPnet,
for BITNET, and for other networks reachable from those. There are
logical networks like CSNET, and others like Mailnet or corporate
networks. Many different countries are represented.
Readers come from the academic, governmental, and private sectors.
Some are involved in research, some are students, and some are
participating in commercial retrieval-related ventures. There are
libraries, library schools, computer science and information science
departments, etc. Readers have varying backgrounds, but all are
interested in information retrieval or related work.
1986 saw a steady growth in IRList membership, but with attendant
problems. New members do not always clearly state their electronic
mail address, and so it is not always possible to successfully add
them. The ARPANET-BITNET gateway, and the distribution point, seismo,
became overloaded. Now, BITNET readers receive their issues from
foxea@vtvax3.bitnet, and others receive copies redistributed from
seismo. It will be necessary for some sites with multiple readers to
set up a local redistribution list - you will be hearing more about
this in the near future if you do not anticipate my request.
Some IRList submissions will be coming out in (the soon to be released
Fall-Winter) ACM SIGIR Forum. SIGIR and the journal "Information
Processing and Management" (IP&M) have agreed to collaborate, so those
interested in sending journal articles can also send them in
electronic form to IRList (though details of handling figures etc.
must be discussed!) since I am involved in all 3 of these publications.
Perhaps we can thus move 1 step further toward electronic publishing.
Please send in more news! There are weekly or monthly seminars that
you could easily write up and send in so we can follow latest developments!
There are technical reports coming out - abstracts are welcome for
those and for papers and dissertations etc. We could also have more
lively discussions, comments on conferences, and other communication. We
have made a good start, and the world is hearing more about
information retrieval, but we can all do even more!
The message below is sent out to new members - please examine it to remind
yourself about the various particulars. I look forward to hearing from
you and to a lively year of IRList issues! Thanks, Ed Fox.
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Date: Sat Jan 17 13:42 EST 1987
From: fox
Subject: Revised Welcome Msg - Reminder What IRList is About
Welcome to the IRList. I am the moderator of the IRList discussion.
I am responsible for composing the digest from pending submissions,
controlling the volume and frequency of mail, keeping an archive, and
answering administrative requests. You may submit material for the
digest to a variety of places, depending on what network you are on
and how quickly and reliably you want mail to reach me. We do not
have to pay for our BITNET mail, and do pay for CSNET and UUCP
services, so if you can use BITNET that is best. That means:
If on ARPANET using domains use one of the following
fox%vtcs1.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
foxea%vtvax3.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
If on ARPANET and can't use domains use one of the following
fox%vtcs1.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
foxea%vtvax3.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa
If on BITNET, use fox@vtcs1 or foxea@vtvax3
If on CSNET, use an ARPANET form shown above
If on UUCPNET, use something like one of the following
... seismo!vtcs1.bitnet!fox
... seismo!vtvax3.bitnet!foxea
If you don't want to use BITNET (ex. because the BITNET-ARPANET
gateway is too clogged) then there are some other options:
If on ARPANET and can use domains
IRList%vt@relay.cs.net
IRList-Request%vt@relay.cs.net
fox%vt@relay.cs.net
If on ARPANET and can't use domains
IRList%vt@csnet-relay.arpa
IRList-Request%vt@csnet-relay.arpa
fox%vt@csnet-relay.arpa
If on CSNET
IRList@vt or IRList-Request@vt or fox@vt
If on UUCPNET
... seismo!vtisr1!fox
As you might expect, archival copies of all digests will be kept; feel
free to ask for recent back issues. Note that FTP is not possible, so
all communication must be by EMAIL or phone or letter. IRList is open
to discussion of any topic (vaguely) related to information retrieval.
Certainly, any material relating to ACM SIGIR (the Special Interest
Group on Information Retrieval of the Association for Computing
Machinery) is of interest. Our field has close ties to artificial
intelligence, database management, information and library science,
linguistics, ... A partial list of topics suitable are:
Information Management/Processing/Science/Technology
AI Applications to IR Hardware aids for IR
Abstracting Indexing/Classification
Citations Information Display/Presentation
Cognitive Psychology Information Retrieval Applications
Communications Networks Information Theory
Computational Linguistics Knowledge Representation
Computer Science Language Understanding
Cybernetics Library Science
Data Abstraction Message Handling
Document Representations Natural Languages, NL Processing
Electronic Books Pattern Recognition, Matching
Expert Systems for IR Probabilistic Techniques
Full-Text Retrieval Speech Analysis
Fuzzy Set Theory Statistical Techniques
Contributions may be anything from tutorials to rampant speculation.
In particular, the following are sought:
Abstracts of Papers,Reports,Dissertations Address Changes
Bibliographies Conference Reports
Descriptions of Projects/Laboratories Half-Baked Ideas
Histories Humorous,Enlightening Anecdotes
Questions Requests
Research Overviews Seminar Announcements/Summaries
Work Planned or in Progress
The only real boundaries to the discussion are defined by the topics
of other mailing lists. Please do not send communications to both
this list and AIList or the Prolog list, except in special cases.
I will try not to overlap much with NL-KR, except when we both receive
materials from contributors or from some bulletin board or researchers.
PLEASE "sign" subscriptions with full name and address so that people
can access you from Internet and/or BITNET (many other networks can be
reached through them and are certainly urged to participate). Editing
of contributions will usually be limited to text justifications and
spelling corrections. Editorial remarks and elisions will be marked
with square brackets. The author will be contacted if significant
editing is required. I have no objection to distributing material
that is destined for conference proceedings or any other publication.
I am involved in SIGIR Forum and unless you request otherwise may
include submissions in whole or in part in future paper versions of
the FORUM. Indeed, this is one form of solicitation for FORUM
contributions! Both IRList and the FORUM are unrefereed, and opinions
are always those of the author and not of any organization unless
there are other indications. Copies of list items should credit the
original author, not necessarily the IRList. If you are interested in
submitting to Information Processing and Management (IP&M), I would to
entertain a discussion with you as well.
The list does not assume copyright, nor does it accept any liability
arising from remailing of submitted material. I reserve the right,
however, to refuse to remail any contribution that I judge to be of
commercial purpose, obscene, libelous, irrelevant, or pointless.
Replies to public requests for information should be sent, at least
in "carbon" form, to this list unless the request states otherwise.
If necessary, I will digest or abstract the replies to control the
volume of distributed mail. However, PLEASE DO contribute! I would
rather deal with too much material than with too little. -- Ed Fox
Edward A. Fox, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science,
Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), McBryde Hall Rm. 562, Blacksburg VA 24061
(703) 961-5113 or 6931
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 87 11:42:10 est
From: kraft@LSU.CSNET
Subject: ACM/SIGIR Conference travel grant announcement for IRlist
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l s s u u Department of Computer Science
l ss u u 298 Coates Hall
l ss u u Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020
l s s u uu (504) 388-1495
lll ssss uuu u kraft%lsu@csnet-relay
January 9, 1987
Dear World:
I have just received the news from the System Develop-
ment Foundation that we have been given some funding for
travel grants to the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)/Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
(SIGIR) International Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval. This conference will be held in
the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on June
3-5, 1987.
The travel stipends are for distinguished non-U.S.
residents to travel to New Orleans to attend and participate
in the conference. The selection of the stipend awards will
be made by the Chairman of ACM/SIGIR and myself in accor-
dance to the following criteria: 1) acceptance of a paper to
be presented at this conference, 2) participation in this
conference program, 3) value of the attendee to this and
future conferences, and 4) potential growth of the attendee
by attending this conference. Anyone not residing in the
U.S. who would like some financial support to attend this
conference should contact me before the deadline of March 1.
It is not too late to begin planning now.
This conference is sponsored by ACM/SIGIR in coopera-
tion with BCS/IRSG, AICA, and IMAG. It is supported by
OCLC, Inc. and System Development Foundation, with other
support being generated. The topics to be covered by the
conference include retrieval system modeling, system
development and evaluation, knowledge representation, mul-
timedia retrieval, cognitive and semantic models, user
interfaces, natural language processing, linguistic models,
storage and search techniques, retrieval system performance,
retrieval in office environments, mathematical models,
hardware developments, complexity problems, and information
retrieval and database management. The Technical Program
Committee is being co-chaired by C. J. "Keith" van Rijsber-
gen and Clement Yu; in addition, the members include Abraham
Bookstein, Yves Chiaramella, Jochum Friedbert, W. S. Luk,
Fausto Rabitti, Nick Cerone, Martha Evens, Richard Frost,
Michael McGill, Gerard Salton, Michael Wong, Stavros Chris-
todoulakis, Aviezri Fraenkel, Tetsuro Ito, Esen Ozkarahan,
and Peter Scheuermann.
The Call for Papers said that papers were due on
December 15, 1986, with acceptance by February 15, 1987 and
final copies due March 20, 1987. If you need to submit a
last minute manuscript, contact Clement Yu (North America)
or Keith van Rijsbergen (outside North America).
Sincerely yours,
Donald H. Kraft
Professor and Chairman
ACM/SIGIR Conference Chair
P.S. Laissez les bons temps rouler.
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