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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 13
IRList Digest Thursday, 21 May 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
Query - Text DBMS for Mac?
- Are IRList queries answered?
- Automatic query formulation assistance?
- References on knowledge based systems for document retrieval
Announcement - Machine readable dictionaries available
- Position: intelligent systems for automated math reasoning
Call for Papers - ACL Applied Natural Language Conference
- 1988 Conference on Office Information Systems
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: Tue, 5 May 87 18:36:09 PDT
From: homo obsolescensis <XB.K98@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Subject: Seeking TDBMS
[From: INFO-MAC Digest Wednesday, 6 May 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 85 - Ed]
I apologize if this subject has been covered already, but I haven't
been able to locate an answer so far. I am trying to locate a text
data base management system (TDBMS) for the mac that would be
similar to Instant Recall or AskSam on the ibm. If anyone know of
such a program, I would be grateful if they would let me know
(off-net preferably). Thanks in advance.
Walter Henry
xb.k98@forsyth.stanford.edu <ARPA>
xb.k98@stanford <Bitnet>
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Date: Tue 5 May 87 23:33:14
From: Roland Hjerppe <rhj@liuida.uucp>
Subject: Re: IRList Digest V3 #2
Dear Ed,
. . .
Sometimes when reading questions or requests for information I wonder
if others have already answered or whether I should venture an answer.
It would be nice to have some kind of indication (satisfied, still
open, no answers) in the next issue (a regular feature) of the fate of
previous requests.
[Note: I think this is a great idea! Can the folks asking the
questions in future please do so? All the discussion I see is
sent along in later issues, so only the person raising the question can
really do wnat you ask. I expect that there are many people like you who
are being shy but who have important points to make that are not being
said. I'll be happy to filter replies if the volume or quality is
not appropriate - recently there has not been a lot of input to
IRList. - Ed]
Roland Hjerppe
LIBLAB, Linkoping University
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Date: Mon, 4 May 87 14:51:32 edt
From: egyhazy@vtcs1
Subject: query formulation aids
. . .
On a related topic,do you happen to know of papers,companies..dealing with
AUTOMATED QUERY FORMULATION AIDS?
Any lead appreciated..................Csaba
[Note: this refers to the situation of heterogeneous distributed DBMS
but could apply to IR systems too. See clarification obtained later,
below. Any comments on either topic should be of interest. - Ed]
Sorry,here are the specifics: As part of my work at NASA's DAVID Project,
a DBMS for heterogeneous distributed databases,we are starting to think about
possible front ends for the astrophysics community of users and their data-
bases collected by earth telescopes and future space telescopes.In other words
we are dealing with massive scientific databases such as location,movement etc.,
of stars,quasars and other such neighbors.
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Date: Tue, 19 May 87 13:44:40+0900
From: Kim Young Whan <mcvax!csd.kaist.ac.kr!ywkim@seismo.css.gov>
Subject: References on Knowledge-based Document Retrieval
I'm writing a Ph.D Thesis about Knowledge Based System for Document
Retrieval, especially about rule based system using uncertainty handling
mechanism (Bayesian, D-S Theory, Fuzzy Set Theory).
I'm looking for any reference having anything to do with it.
I'm also interesting in public-domain programs that are related to this field.
Sources written in LISP(Common LISP, GCLISP,Frantz-LISP, Zeta LISP) would be
preferred.
The information obtained will be collected and summarized and made
available to researcher on request.
Thanks for your assistance.
[Note: there has been quite a lot of work on this. There will be a
special issue of Information Processing and Management out this summer
on this topic. Several papers at the ACM SIGIR Conf. on R&D in
Information Retrieval in New Orleans in a few weeks will be about this -
I will announce how to get proceedings from ACM when they become available.
There was a 2 part article in JASIS by Biswas et al. recently.
Notable other systems include I3R by Croft and Thomson, RUBRIC by Tong
et al., CODER by Fox et al, CANSEARCH by Pollitt, ... Also, there are
abstracts in issues of ACM SIGIR Forum. If you are not an ACM SIGIR
member, I encourage joining -- it still only costs $6 to ACM members,
but dues will jump to $12 soon. - Ed]
Young-Whan Kim
Dept. of CS KAIST
P.O.Box 150, Cheongryang
Seoul, 131
Republic of Korea.
ywkim%csd.kaist.ac.kr@relay.cs.net(from cs-net)
ywkim%csd.kaist.ac.kr@wiscvm.wisc.edu(from bitnet)
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From: Mike Wilson <mdw%vax-d.rutherford.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Date: Tue, 12 May 87 19:08:31 -0100
Subject: Machine Usable Dictionaries.
The Oxford Text Archive is one of the specialist facilities supported by
the Oxford University Computing Service for the use of scholars.
The Archive has over 750 machine usable texts which it distributes for
research purposes. Among these are several machine usable and machine
readable dictionaries.
Two of these may be of particular use to researchers in Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Science, Cognitive Science and Psychology.
The Computer Usable version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
prepared by Roger Mitton at Birckbeck College, London. This is available
as two files listing 38205 and 68742 words, with their pronunciation,
detailed syntactic information and verb patterns.
The MRC Psycholinguistic Database, Machine Usable Dictionary: Version 2
prepared by Michael Wilson at the SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Oxon. This is available as a dictionary file and two access programs. The
dictionary file contains 150837 words (115331 different strings), giving 26
linguistic/psycholinguistic properties for subsets of these. These
properties include part of speech, written and spoken word frequency,
imagability, concreteness, Meaningfulness, phonetic transcription and status
of usage. The dictionary was designed to be used to select stimuli for
psycholinguistic experiments, but it may be used in other ways.
To obtain copies of texts a signed order form (containing a declaration
that the texts will be used for private scholarly research only) and
prepayment must be sent before any materials can be distributed.
A flat fee of 5 pounds sterling is charged for each text ordered. In addition,
there is a charge to cover media and postage, currently 15 pounds per tape (or
diskette) within Europe, or 25 pounds per tape (or diskette) outside Europe.
The number of texts that can fit on one tape varies greatly, according to
the format used to write the tape as well as the size of the text.
Further information about ordering the dictionaries is available from:
Oxford Text Archive
Oxford University Computing Service
13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6NN
U.K.
Messages and enquiries sent by electronic mail are welcomed. The Archive
has an account on the British Joint Academic Network (JANET), which also
has connections to EDUNET (ARPANET), EARN (BITNET, NORTHNET) etc ...
The JANET address for electronic mail is: ARCHIVE@UK.AC.OX.VAX3
>From ARPANET try: ARCHIVE%UK.AC.OX.VAX3@CS.UCL.AC.UK
>From EARN/BITNET try: ARCHIVE%UK.AC.OX.VAX3@UK.AC.RL.EARN
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Date: Tue, 12 May 87 17:21:42 GMT
From: Alan Bundy <bundy%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Lectureship at Edinburgh
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
DEPARTMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
TEMPORARY LECTURESHIP IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(AUTOMATED MATHEMATICAL REASONING)
The Department of Artificial Intelligence is the leading European
university centre for research into intelligent systems. Applications
are invited for a five year temporary lectureship in the area of
automated mathematical reasoning. The post has been created as the
result of the award of an SERC senior fellowship to Dr. Alan Bundy.
Candidates should have post-doctoral, or equivalent, experience and
proven ability for independent research and innovation. Besides
participating in the Department's teaching programme, the successful
candidate will be expected to contribute to its research in automated
mathematical reasoning.
Salary will be on the lecturer scale, 8,735 - 18,210 pounds per annum,
with superannuation under the University's scheme. The starting
salary will depend on age, qualifications and experience.
Further particulars may be obtained from:
The Personnel Office
63 South Bridge
Edinburgh, EH1 1LS
SCOTLAND.
quoting reference number 1301. Applications (six copies) including
curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of three referees, should
be sent to the same address not later than 8th June 1987.
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 87 02:49:39 edt
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: ACL Applied Natural Language Conference
"CALL FOR PAPERS"
SECOND CONFERENCE ON APPLIED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
9-12 February 1988, Austin, Texas, USA
Organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics
CONFERENCE SUMMARY: This meeting will focus on the application of
natural language processing techniques to real world problems. It will
include invited and contributed papers, panel discussions, tutorials,
exhibits, and demonstrations. Original papers are being solicited in
areas such as human-machine interfaces (including databases, expert
systems, report writers, etc.), speech input and output, information
retrieval, text generation, machine translation, office automation,
writing aids, computer-aided instruction, tools for natural-language
processing, and applications to medical, legal, or other professional
areas. Papers may present applications, evaluations, limitations, and
general tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate a
formalism or processing strategy are especially welcome. Papers or
panel proposals discussing end-user experience with natural language
systems are also encouraged.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit ten copies of a 6-8
page summary (single-spaced, exclusive of references, pica or elite
size type). The first page should begin with the title, the name(s) of
the author(s), complete address(es), and a short (5-6 line) abstract.
Papers should be sent to: Bruce Ballard
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 3C-440A
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
(201)582-5440
allegra!bwb@ucbvax.berkeley.edu
The submission should identify distinctive aspects of the work and
clearly indicate the extent to which an implementation has been
completed; vague or unsubstantiated claims will be given little
weight. Submissions should be substantively different from papers
currently under review or to be submitted elsewhere before the
notification date. All papers will be reviewed by members of the
Program Committee , which is composed of Bruce Ballard, chair (AT&T
Bell Laboratories), Madeleine Bates (BBN Laboratories), Tim Finin
(University of Pennsylvania), Ralph Grishman (New York University),
Carole Hafner (Northeastern University), George Heidorn (IBM
Corporation), Paul Martin (SRI International), Graeme Ritchie
(University of Edinburgh), and Harry Tennant (Texas Instruments).
SCHEDULE: Papers must be received by September 1, 1987. Notification
of acceptance will be sent by October 5, 1987. Camera-ready versions
of the full paper must be received by November 30, 1987.
OTHER ACTIVITIES: The meeting will include one day of tutorials by
noted contributors to the field. Facilities for exhibits and system
demonstrations will also be available. Persons wishing to arrange an
exhibit or present a demonstration should contact Kent Wittenburg or
Carl Weir, MCC, 3500 W. Balcones Center Drive, Austin, TX 78759;
(512)338-3626 or 338-3616; wittenburg@mcc.com or weir@mcc.com.
CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Local arrangements are being handled by
Jonathan Slocum and Barbara Smith, MCC, 3500 W. Balcones Center Drive,
Austin, TX 78759; (512)338-3571 and 338-3527; slocum@mcc.arpa and
barbara@mcc.arpa. For additional information on the conference or
about the ACL, contact Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research, 445
South Street, MRE 2A379, Morristown, NJ 07960; (201)829-4312;
walker@flash.bellcore.com or ucbvax!bellcore!walker. In addition to
the persons named above, the Conference Committee includes Norman
Sondheimer, USC/Information Sciences Institute, General Chair; Martha
Palmer, UNISYS, Tutorials; Jeffrey Hill and Brenda Nashawaty,
Artificial Intelligence Corporation, Publicity.
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Date: Mon, 4 May 87 14:29:36 edt
From: "Robert B. Allen" <rba@flash.bellcore.com>
Subject: OIS conference
CONFERENCE ON OFFICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Palo Alto, CA - March 23-25, 1988
Sponsored by: ACM-SIGOIS IEEE Computer Society TC-OA
In Cooperation with IFIP W.G. 8.4
COIS is a conference concerned with intelligent processing of information in
organizations - topics of interest include:
Effects of Technology on Human Organizations Information Systems
Object-Oriented and Intelligent Databases Planning Systems
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Social Processes
Multimedia/Hypertext Systems Organizational Design
Distributed Artificial Intelligence User Models
Voice/Video/Graphics Interconnect
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: G. Bracchi (Milan), S. Christodoulakis (Waterloo),
Bruce Croft (UMass), Peter DeJong (MIT), Les Gasser (USC), Eli Gerson
(San Francisco), Irene Greif (Lotus), Benn Konsynski (Harvard), Yoshifumi
Masunaga (Tokyo), Norm Meyrowitz (Brown), Alain Michard (INRIA), Juzar
Motiwalla (Singapore), John Mylopoulos (Toronto), Bill Newman (London),
Margi Olson (NYU), Fausto Rabitti (Pisa), Ron Rice (USC), Jeff Rulifson
(Syntelligence), Chris Schmandt (MIT), Lucy Suchman (Xerox PARC), Dennis
Tsichritzis, Geneva), C.J. van Rijsbergen (Glasgow), Andrew Whinston
(Purdue), Thomas Wu (NPS), Stan Zdonik (Brown)
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Najah Naffah (General Chair, Bull), Bob Allen
(Program Chair, Bellcore), Dave Choy (IBM, SJ), Skip Ellis (MCC), Carl
Hewitt (MIT), Fred Lochovsky (Toronto), Bob Root - (Treasurer, Bellcore),
Sig Treu (Pittsburgh), Alex Verrijn-Stuart (Leiden)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: TERRY WINOGRAD
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Submissions by September 21, 1987.
Papers will be judged for technical merit by appropriate subgroups of
the program committee. Submissions (max. 3500 words) may be made
either on paper (5 copies) or on some standard electronic medium to:
Conference on Office Information Systems
Dr. Robert B. Allen
2A-367
Bell Communications Research
Morristown, NJ 07960
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