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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 06
IRList Digest Tuesday, 14 April 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
Query - Seeking dictionary with parts of speech
- AI bibliographies
Seminar - CANSEARCH and Knowledge-Based Intermediary Systems
SIGIR - Front matter of FORUM that should arrive soon
COGSCI - Natural Object Categorization
News addresses are ARPANET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
CSNET: fox@vt UUCPNET: seismo!vtisr1!irlistrq
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 87 02:15:25 est
From: vtcs1::in% <LAWS@sri-stripe.arpa>
Subject: seeking dictionary with part-of-speech noted
I am in search of a machine readable dictionary or lexicon with
part-of-speech denoted. Anybody know of one?
The purpose is to create a fact database in prolog as part of
a `natural language' interface. Any comments?
--
Dave Stoffel (703) 790-5357
seismo!mimsy!dave
dave@Mimsy.umd.edu
Amber Research Group, Inc.
[Note: a reply appeared in digest NL-KR recently. Also, we are getting very
close to finishing the Collins Dictionary of the English Language lexicon
here, which will be in the form of Prolog facts and will include
POS information. It should be available from Oxford Text Archive
after we send it to them. - Ed]
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 87 02:15:32 est
From: vtcs1::in% <LAWS@sri-stripe.arpa>
Subject: AI bibliographies
Does anyone have a file containing all the titles of papers published
in the leading AI sources e.g. Journal, IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI etc.? It
would be nice to do a string search for certain topics and find relevant
papers instantly.
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 87 02:35:32 est
From: vtcs1::in% <LAWS@sri-stripe.arpa>
Subject: computer science seminar
Dr. Steven Pollitt of the Dept. of Computer Studies and Mathematics,
Huddersfield Polytechnic (UK) will give a seminar on Monday, March 23,
11:30 a.m., in the Colloquium Room of the Chase building at Dalhousie
University. Dr. Pollitt is currently doing research in information retieval
at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
The seminar in entitled, "CANSEARCH and Knowledge-Based Intermediary Systems."
It is concerned with the building of a knowledge-based intermediary system
for end-user searching of the cancer therapy literature references stored
in the MEDLINE database.
The seminar is sponsered by the Computing Science Division of Dalhousie.
For more information contact Mike Shepherd, 424-2572.
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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 87 22:16:43 est
From: foxea@vtvax5
Subject: Front section of next ACM SIGIR Forum
Fall 86 / Winter 87 ACM SIGIR Forum
Page 1 Table of Contents
SIGIR NEWS
From the Editor 1
Growth of IRList Digest 1
From the Treasurer 2
Reminder! 1987 Int'l Conf. on R&D in IR, New Orleans 2
New Arrangement between SIGIR and IP&M 3
Conference Reports
Conf. on R&D in IR, Pisa Italy, 1986 4
1st Int. Conf. on Expert Database Systems,
South Carolina, 1986 6
NSF Awards 11
Articles
Van Rijsbergen 23
Frakes 30
Marcus 37
Abstracts of Articles in IR Area
Selected by G. Salton 39
Selected by M. Wyle 51
Announcements
Chemical Structures 61
Santa Cruz 62
Join SIGIR 63
SIGIR Order Form 64
____________________________________________________________________________
Page 2 From the Editor
As can be seen from the size of this Forum, information
retrieval is an area of growing importance. Costs are
growing, as indicated in the special message from our
Treasurer (see page 2). Interest in our work is growing, as
evidenced by a new special relationship recently established
with Information Processing and Management (see page 3)
and by the growth of membership in IRList (see below).
Many of the awards recently made by the National Science
Foundation are tied in with research in information retrieval
(see pages 11-22). We hope SIGIR will grow in membership
rapidly too -- please make copies of the form on page 63 and
distribute it widely to those who might become members.
There are also changes. Several revised addresses and
other differences can be seen in the inside front cover. The
parts of the National Science Foundation relating to
information retrieval have been reorganized; our field is now
more closely allied with knowledge and data bases. [There is
now a Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent
Systems with programs on Information Impact, Interactive
Systems, Knowledge and Database Systems, and Robotics and
Machine Intelligence.] The conference report on pages 4-10
about expert database systems should therefore be of
particular interest. The article by C.J. Van Rijsbergen reflects
a shift in approach to retrieval problems. It appeared in the
Proceedings of the Pisa Conference, which can be ordered
from ACM (see form on page 64). Abstracts of other
presentations from that Proceedings appear on pages 45-50.
The article by William Frakes suggests that information
retrieval can be important in software engineering, and the
article by Richard Marcus gives insights based on use of
information retrieval in corporate libraries.
Remember to come to the 1987 SIGIR International
Conference in New Orleans -- see the reminder on page 2.
Also, remember to send in book reviews, articles, abstracts,
dissertation abstracts, announcements, or other items of
interest. Please provide camera ready single spaced copy --
this issue was held up because many items had to be retyped to
save pages.
Please contribute and help SIGIR grow!
Ed Fox, Co-Editor
_____________________________________
Growth of IRList Digest
IRList Digest, an electronic digest encouraged by ACM
SIGIR, has grown since its inception in August 1985 so that
now there are hundreds of readers around the world. Volume
1 had 28 issues, and Volume 2 (for 1986) had 71. There are
subscribers on the DARPA Internet, the UUCP network,
BITNET, CSNET, and many other networks that have
gateways to one or more of these. Abstracts, articles,
announcements, calls for papers, questions, discussions,
bibliographies and important mailing issues are included.
New members are encouraged; just send an electronic message
indicating what network you are on, and what your complete
address is. However, if you are at a site that currently receives
IRList and has a local redistribution list, then you can ask your
computer system manager instead to add you locally.
Please use IRList as your discussion list, to help with the
growth and development of SIGIR!
Ed Fox
IRList Editor
BITNET: fox@vtcs1 or foxea@vtvax3 CSNET: fox@vt
Internet: fox@vtcs1.cs.vt.edu UUCPnet: seismo!vtopus!fox
____________________________________________________________________________
Page 2 From the Treasurer
The SIGIR dues of $6.00 for a regular membership have been held constant
for many years, making us one of the least expensive SIGs to belong to. During this time our expenses have risen, including the overhead charge applied to us
by the ACM headquarters. This charge is currently $5.00 per year per member.
The average cost of a newsletter is $2.00 per subscriber. This puts our costs
this year (including 3 newsletters) at well over $11.00 per member, creating a
projected deficit of over $15,000, and bringing our reserve to a dangerous
level. Obviously we cannot continue at this level of deficit spending, and
are therefore asking approval from the SIG Board for a raise in dues to the
following schedule.
Regular members $ 12.00
Associate members 12.00
Student members 6.00
Designees 12.00
Non-ACM members 40.00
Subscriptions 24.00
This increase will allow us to have a balanced budget next
year.
I feel that these dues are still a bargain, expecially
considering the three vastly improved newsletters this year,
including interesting articles and conference/workshop
reports, timely information on conference programs and NSF
grants, and many pointers to current journal articles pertinent
to our field. Obtaining a balanced budget is a first step
towards providing more service to our members.
Donna Harman, Treasurer
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REMINDER!!!
1987 ACM SIGIR INT'L CONFERENCE on
R&D in INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
This conference will be held in the Monteleone Hotel in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA on June 3-5, 1987. This
conference is sponsored by ACM/SIGIR in cooperation 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, multimedia 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
Rijsbergen 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
Christodoulakis, Aviezri Fraenkel, Tetsuro Ito, Esen
Ozkarahan, and Peter Scheuermann.
Donald H. Kraft, Professor and Chairman
ACM/SIGIR Conference Chair
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Computer Science
298 Coates Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4020
(504) 388-1495
kraft%lsu@csnet-relay.arpa
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Page 4 NEW ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN SIGIR AND IP&M
I. ANNOUNCEMENT
ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information
Retrieval) has many members involved or interested in
research activities. Some of those members receive news
through IRList Digest, but only if they have access to a
computer network reachable from BITNET or the DARPA
Internet. All SIGIR members receive the Forum, which is an
unrefereed newsletter. As a additional aid to SIGIR members,
and to better serve the readers of "Information Processing and
Management," an international journal published by
Pergamon Press, a new arrangement has been established
between ACM SIGIR and IP&M.
1) Pages Set Aside
Since SIGIR members are actively involved in research that
is of interest to IP&M readers, there will be a number of pages
set aside each year for SIGIR use. Some of the possibilities are
listed below; other suggestions are welcome.
2) SIGIR Meetings
IP&M will publish selected papers from SIGIR meetings, and
will if agreeable to all, publish a special issue where such
papers are assembled.
3) Special Issues
IP&M is interested in special issues on topics related to SIGIR
members' work and/or broader interests. An example of this
is the special issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Information
Retrieval" now being assembled by W. Bruce Croft. An
editor can be appointed for other such issues when a suitable
topic is identified.
4) Articles
IP&M is interested in receiving other articles from SIGIR
members. They should be sent to the Liason (see 7 below) and
will be reviewed by at least 2 referees in standard fashion.
Submissions to SIGIR Forum that have such potential will be
screened with this in mind.
5) Camera Ready Publications
Brief communications can appear quickly in IP&M if sent in
camera ready form -- providing a fast publication outlet.
6) Announcments
IP&M is willing to publish SIGIR announcements such as
calls for papers, free of charge.
7) Liason
Dr. Edward A. Fox has been appointed to serve on the
editorial board of IP&M. He will serve as a liason between
SIGIR and IP&M. He can be contacted to receive submissions
of any of the types mentioned above, or for other related
matters. Correspondence should be sent to
Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061
II. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
In light of the above arrangements, a call is hereby made to all
SIGIR members to send in articles, announcements,
suggestions for special issues, or other comments relating to
this new arrangement. Please communicate directly with the
Liason and be sure to indicate that you wish your submission to be
considered for IP&M.
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 87 16:43:45 est
From: vtcs1::in% <DEJONG%OZ.AI.MIT.EDU@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Cognitive Science Calendar [Extract - Ed]
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 1987 15:52-EST
From: JHC at OZ.AI.MIT.EDU
Subject: Revolving Seminar (wednesday)
- - - -
Wednesday, 4 March 2:00pm Room: NE43-8th floor playroom
Natural Object Categorization
Aaron F. Bobick
Stanford Research Institute
One of the most commonly proposed goals of a perceptual system is that
of object recognition. Yet, to date, we have been unable to define
precisely what the task of recognition really entails. In this talk I
will provide a definition of recognition in terms of classifying
objects into natural categories and I will discuss some of the issues
relating to the discovery of these categories. A procedure for
recovering good perceptual categories which is based upon the
uncertainty of categorical inferences will be presented; one important
property of this procedure is that the vaildity of the recovered
categories can be tested explicitly. This procedure has been tested
in the domains of leaves (using descriptions, not images), soybean
diseaes (Michalski's data), and bacterial infections. Finally, some
potential extensions of this work will be related to the machine
learning literature.
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