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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 22
IRList Digest Friday, 7 August 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 22
Today's Topics:
Query - Papers, references for chapter on CD-ROM, Optical Discs
- Access to archive of IRList Digest
- Articles on IR software or library automation packages
- Comments on Natural Language Inc. handling unrestricted English
Announcement - Hypertext report on Jt. Scandanavian Computer Conf.
- Travel grant for 1988 Int'l Conf. on R&D in IR
Call For Papers - 11th Int'l Conf. on R&D in Information Retrieval
- ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symp. Principles DB 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: Thu, 6 Aug 87 16:46:20 edt
From: fox (Ed Fox)
Subject: Request for references, reprints etc. on CD ROM, optical discs
There will be a chapter in ARIST V.23, which should appear late in 1988,
on CD ROM and Optical Disc Publishing and Access. If you have done work
in this area and have papers or manuscripts, or know of publications by
others, please send references or reprints to
Dr. Edward A. Fox
Dept. of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
VA 24061
or call (703) 961-5113 (direct), -6931 (office to leave messages).
Thanks in advance for your assistance! - Ed
PS We are setting up a lab here for work on CD ROM, and will have
a graduate special topics course this fall, so welcome demonstration
discs or other information as well.
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 87 14:28:48 PDT
From: "Fred Gey [csr]" <gey@lbl-csam.arpa>
Subject: past volumes of IRList
Dear Ed Fox,
Please put me on the distribution list for IRList
Digest. Under what circumstances could I get a machine
readable copy of all past volumes of the digest (we have
suns, vax-vms, vax-4.2bsd, and ibm-pcs at this site).
Thanks, Fred Gey
Computer Science research Dept
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Rd.
Berkeley, CA 94720
(415) 486-6208
arpa: gey@lbl-csam.arpa
[Note: I have sent you the standard welcome msg and added you. The
welcome message explains about rights to the files, etc. Regarding
getting the archive, you can send me a tape and pay for handling etc.
or you can wait, probably about a month, till our ARPANET connection
is to the point that FTP is possible. - Ed]
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 87 15:59:02 EDT
From: Hugo_Cisternas@57scl1.ceo.dg.com
Subject: IRList: BRS, STATUS, IR Software for Data General?
I am interested in Library Automation (Cataloging, Circulation, Acquisition,
Info Retrieval). May be there are some information about this themes in back
issues of IRList, specificaly works on Data General Computers and/or using
the C or Pascal Language or the UNIX operating system, and perhaps the MUMP
Language . . .
I would like to know if you have any articles refering to BRS,
STATUS, STAIRS or other IR software. I am searching also for IR,
Library Automation or Circulation Control packages for UNIX and/or
for Data General machines (AOS/VS).
I would be very thankful to you if you may send me something.
Many thanks
Hugo E. Cisternas
[Note: We have not had much in IRList on this topic, and what there
has been is rather old. There were articles in the Communications of
the ACM in 1985 by Maron and Blair, and a related paper by Salton in
1986 that touched on use of STAIRS, but I have not seen much in
general in the research literature that relates to your interest. I
am sure that readers can send you much more data, and hope you can
summarize anything interesting you receive. - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 87 10:07:56 EDT
From: Bruce Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
Subject: Nat Lg Inc
A colleague asks me by Email about an outfit called Natural Language Inc.
He hears they claim to process `virtually unrestricted English text'
to create a relational database for query systems. He says they are
located in Berkeley. Anybody know more?
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 87 11:07:40 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN@NEUVM1>
Subject: Hypertext report available
My trip report from the NordDATA'87 Joint Scandinavian Computer Conference
is now available as ID-TR-1987-24. If you write our department for the
report, you will only get a single sheet of paper however, announcing that
the report is a hypertext, multi-media document which is only available
in computer-readable form.
To get a copy of this report, please send an initialized Macintosh
diskette to the following address (it would be nice if you include some
good shareware on the diskette, but this is not a requirement):
Jakob Nielsen
Department of Computer Science
Technical University of Denmark, Building 344
DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen
DENMARK
The report focuses on human factors and user interface design practice
in Scandinavia and also includes a hypertext version of my own paper
at the conference "Using Scenarios to Develop User Friendly Videotex
Systems" (in English).
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 87 08:24:04 CDT
From: Don <kraft%lsu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: travel grant for 1988 Intl Conf on R&D in IR, Grenoble, France
I have just received a travel grant for twenty or so stipends covering airfare
from the National Science Foundation so that U.S. residents can attend the
ACM/SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval, to be held in Grenoble, France on June 13-15, 1988.
The conference will include the topics of retrieval system modeling, artificial
intelligence and information retrieval, evaluation techniques, hardware
developments for retrieval systems, natural language processing, database
management and information retrieval, user interfaces, and advanced
applications.
Anyone interested in receiving a travel stipend should contact me. The deadline
for applying for a travel stipend is March 1, 1988.
Submission of papers (four copies of either a full paper of not more than 20-25
pages, or an extended abstract of about ten pages) with a complete author
identification and an abstract of about one hundred words must be submitted
by January 15, 1988 to:
Professor Gerard Salton
Department of Computer Science
4130 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
USA
Final copy is due May 16, 1988, with acceptance notification coming by March 21,
1988.
Don Kraft
kraft@lsu.edu
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 87 17:15 EDT
From: Equipe Chiaramella <siri@imag.UUCP>
Subject: CFP: SIGIR - Research and Development in Information Retrieval
CALL FOR PAPERS
SIGIR 88
in cooperation with the ACM
11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
ACM-SIGIR
JUNE 13-15 1988
GRENOBLE (FRANCE)
Conference Chairman : Yves CHIARAMELLA (USTMG - Grenoble, France)
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Program Comittee :
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M.ADIBA (F) G.KNORZ (Germany)
R.BOUCHE (F) S.MIRANDA (F)
A.BOOKSTEIN (USA) C.D.PAICE (UK)
M.F.BRUANDET (F) F.RABITTI (I)
E.CHOURAQUI (F) V.V.RAGHAVAN (USA)
W.B.CROFT (USA) K.VAN RIJSBERGEN (UK)
T.E.DOSZKOCS (USA) G.SALTON (USA)
A.S. FRAENKEL (Israel) P.WILLETT (UK)
N.FUHR (Germany) S.K.M. WONG (Canada)
Papers are invited on theory, methodology, implementation and applications of
information retrieval.
Communications from areas of prime interest for information retrieval, such
as artificial intelligence, database systems, office automation, hardware
technology, natural language processing, are welcome.
The main topics thus include, but are not limited to:
- retrieval system modelling :
linguistic models
mathematical models
cognitive and semantic models
- information retrieval and artificial intelligence:
knowledge representation
expert systems
thesaurus management
- evaluation techniques:
retrieval and system performances
system development and evaluation
- natural language processing:
parsers
deep understanding
multilingual systems
- information retrieval and database management:
storage and research techniques
multimedia databases
fifth generation databases
deductive databases
document databases for ofice automation
database machines
- user interfaces:
natural language interfaces
graphic interfaces
- advanced applications
INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS :
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Full length papers should not exceed 20 or 25 pages. Extented abstracts of
about 10 pages are also accepted. Both must contain a complete author
identification and an abstract of about a hundred words. Four copies of each
paper should be submitted to the Program Committee. Papers from North America
should be sent to G.SALTON; submissions from outside North America should be
sent to E.CHOURAQUI:
Gerard SALTON Eugene CHOURAQUI
CORNELL UNIVERSITY GRTC-CNRS
Dept. of Computer Science 31 chemin J.AIGUIER
4130 UPSON HALL 13402 MARSEILLE
ITHACA Cedex 9
N.Y. 14853 - 7501 USA FRANCE
Important dates :
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submission deadline : january 15, 1988
acceptance notification : march 21, 1988
final copy due : may 16, 1988
Communication ways :
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electronic address : siri@imag.UUCP
telex address : 98 01 34
telecopy address : 76 51 48 48
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= - mail address : Laboratoire IMAG - Genie Informatique =
= BP 38 - 38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex =
= FRANCE =
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= Address : --------------------------------------------------- =
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 87 11:36:19 PDT
From: Jeff Ullman <ullman@navajo.stanford.edu>
Subject: PODS call
[Forwarded from PROLOG Digest Thursday, 16 Jul 1987 Volume 5 : Issue 45]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on
PRINCIPLES OF DATABASE SYSTEMS
Austin, Texas, March 21-23, 1988
The conference will cover new developments in both the theoretical and
practical aspects of database and knowledge-base systems. Papers are
solicited which describe original and novel research about the theory,
design, specification, or implementation of database and
knowledge-base systems.
Some suggested, although not exclusive, topics of interest are:
architecture, concurrency control, database and expert systems,
database machines, data models, data structures for physical
implementation, deductive databases, dependency theory, distributed
systems, incomplete information, user interfaces, performance
evaluation, physical and logical design, query languages, query
processing, recursive rules, spatial and temporal data, statistical
databases, and transaction management.
You are invited to submit ten copies of a detailed abstract (not a complete
paper) to the program chairman:
Mihalis Yannakakis
Room 2C-319
AT&T Bell Laboratories
600 Mountain Avenue
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of significance,
originality, and overall quality. Each abstract should 1) contain
enough information to enable the program committee to identify the
main contributions of the work; 2) explain the importance of the work
- its novelty and its practical or theoretical relevance to database
and knowledge-base systems; and 3) include comparisons with and
references to relevant literature. Abstracts should be no longer than
ten double-spaced pages. Deviations from these guidelines may affect
the program committee's evaluation of the paper.
Program Committee
Serge Abiteboul Alberto Mendelzon
Krzysztof Apt Dale Skeen
Philip Bernstein Victor Vianu
Paris Kanellakis Mihalis Yannakakis
David Maier
The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 9, 1987. Authors
will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 8, 1987. The
accepted papers, typed on special forms, will be due at the above
address by January 8, 1988. All authors of accepted papers will be
expected to sign copyright release forms. Proceedings will be
distributed at the conference, and will be subsequently available for
purchase through ACM.
General Chairman: Local Arrangements:
Avi Silberschatz Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan
Dept. of Computer Sciences Dept. of Computer Sciences
Univ. of Texas at Austin Univ. of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712 Austin, Texas 78712
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