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IRList Digest Volume 3 Number 33
IRList Digest Friday, 28 August 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 33
Today's Topics:
Announcement - Browser for Macintosh's: more details
Call for Papers - RIAO '88 (with encouragement to submit papers)
News addresses are Internet or CSNET: fox@vtcs1.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet UUCPNET: fox@vtopus.uucp
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Date: 25 Aug 87 09:40 EDT
From: Mark Zimmermann <science@nems.arpa>
Subject: brwsr/ndxr announcement
[Note: this is a sequel to msg in V3. #28 - Ed]
If anybody is interested and can figure out how to get a msg back to me, I'll
be happy to send you copies of my latest indexing and browsing programs in C.
They seem to work fine on the Macintosh, the VAX, and the Sun that I've tried
them on.
"ndxr.c" takes a single, arbitrarily-large, text file as input and produces
a complete inverted index to every word in that file. It currently runs at
over 2 MB/hour on the Mac Plus, and 6-12 MB/hour on a Sun 3/140, depending on
what else is running at the same time. Final index files are around 80%
the size of the input document, though one still needs 5-6 times the size of
the input document in free space on the disk while the index is being sorted.
(I'm working on reducing that intermediate storage requirement still.)
"brwsr.c" is a command-line-oriented version of the Macintosh Browser
program. It enables you to interact with an indexed document -- you can
search around the index itself, and when an interesting word turns up, drop
down into a key-word-in-context display of all the occurrences of that
word. From an interesting line in the KWIC display, you can then jump into
the actual text of the document. "brwsr.c" includes facilities for proximity
restrictions on searches (so the size of the search space can be cut down
for commoner terms -- e.g., instead of having to scroll through 10,000
occurrences of "Apple" you can only look at the 200 occurrences of "apple"
in the neighborhod of "Macintosh" or "Mac"). The browser also lets you
route output into a "notes" file as desired, so if you're not working in
a multiwindow cut/paste environment you can at least take some clippings
out of the text you have retrieved.
There's a third file, a descriptive commentary and mini-manual for using
"brwsr.c", that I can also send you if interested. "ndxr.c" is around 35 kB,
"brwsr.c" is around 55 kB, and the descriptive file is around 11 kB long.
Heavily commented C code, but designed to compile and run without any
editing or magic as far as I can tell (on VAX and Sun, anyway).
No guarantees, of course! ^z
(science@nems.arpa)
Mark Zimmermann, 9511 Gwyndale Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 87 19:13:03 edt
From: fox (Ed Fox)
Subject: more on RIAO '88
In V3 #20 the call for papers for RIAO '88 was published. I have heard that
there has been a disappointing response from US universities. Since some
of you may not have received #20, due to mail problems or summer trips,
I am sending out the call again.
Some may have noted that this conference is the same week as the
Office Information Systems Conference. Special arrangements will be
made to schedule people who want to attend both to speak on the 21st
or 22nd if they want to then go on to the OIS conference.
While it is desirable that systems being discussed be demonstrable,
it is understood that university systems are typically prototypes, so
people should not be scared off by that factor. - Ed
CALL FOR PAPERS
RIAO 88
USER-ORIENTED CONTENT-BASED
TEXT AND IMAGE HANDLING
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
March 21-24, 1988
Conference
organized by:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Centre National de Recherche des Telecommunications (CNET)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique
et Automatique (INRIA)
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris
Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique
Documentaires (CID)
US participating organizations:
American Federation of Information Processing Societies
(AFIPS)
American Society for Information Science (ASIS)
Information Industry Association (IIA)
This conference is prepared under the direction of:
Professor Andre Lichnerowicz
de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris
and
Professor Jacques Arsac
correspondant de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris
RIAO: Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur
A GENERAL INTRODUCTION:
RIAO 88 is being held to demonstrate the state of the art in
information retrieval, a domain that is in rapid evolution
because of developments in the technology for machine control of
full-text and image databases. This evolution is stimulated by
the demands of end-users generated by the recent availability of
CD-ROM full text publishing and general public access to
information data bases.
A group of French organizations has taken the initiative of
preparing this conference. Its wish in promoting this forum is
not only to stimulate and challenge researchers from all nations
but also to increase an awareness of European technology.
This "call for papers" is beeing distributed world-wide. We
want to reach individuals in the research communities throughout
the university and industrial sectors.
The conference will be held in Cambridge, MA. We hope that
it will encourage the exchange of European and American
viewpoints, and establish new links between research teams in
United-states and Europe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
General theme
Full-text and mixed media database systems are
characterized by the fact that the structure of the
information is not known a priori.
This prevents advance knowledge of the types of
questions that will be asked, unlike the situation found in
hierarchical and relational database management systems.
You are invited to submit a paper showing how the
situation can be dealt with. Special attention will be given to:
- techniques designed to reduce imprecision
in full-text database searching;
- data entry and control;
- "friendly" end-user interfaces.
- new media
A large number of specific subjects can be treated
within this general framework. Some suggestions are made in
the following section.
Specific themes
A) Linguistic processing and interrogation of full
text databases:
- automatic indexing,
- machine generated summaries,
- natural language queries,
- computer-aided translation,
- multilingual interfaces.
B) Automatic thesaurus construction,
C) Expert system techniques for retrieving information
in full-text and multimedia databases:
- expert systems reasoning on open-ended domains
- expert systems simulating librarians accessing
pertinent information.
D) Friendly user interfaces to classical information
retrieval systems.
E) Specialized machines and system architectures designed
for treating full-text data, including managing and accessing
widely distributed databases.
F) Automatic database construction scanning techniques,
optical character readers, output document preparation, etc...
G) New applications and perspectives suggested by
emerging new technologies:
- optical storage techniques (videodisk,
CD-ROM, CD-I, Digital Optical Disks);
- integrated text, sound and image retrieval
systems;
- electronic mail and document delivery based
on content;
- voice processing technologies for database
construction;
- production of intelligent tutoring
systems;
- hypertext, hypermedia.
Conditions for participation
The program committee is looking for communications
geared toward practical applications. Papers which have not been
validated by a working model, a prototype or a simulation, or for
which a realization of such a model seems currently unlikely, may
be refused.
Authors must submit a paper of about 10 pages doubled
spaced, and a 100 word abstract.
Four copies must be sent before October 30 to one of
these two addresses:
- RIAO 88, Conference Service Office, MIT, Bldg 7, Room 111
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139
- RIAO 88, CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 PARIS FRANCE
Each presentation will last 20 minutes followed by 10
minutes of discussion and questions.
Arrangement have been made with the international
journal "Information Processing and Management" for publishing
expanded versions of some papers.
High quality audiovisual techniques should be used
when presenting the paper.
Separate demonstration sessions can be scheduled
if requested.
Particular attention will be paid to :
- the use of readily available equipment for
demonstrations (IBM PC, APPLE, network connec-
tions...);
- pre-recorded video or floppy disk displays.
Hardcopy printouts of results should be avoided if
possible.
English is the working language of the conference.
For further information call:
in North America : Karen Daifuku,
tel: (202) 944 62 52
in other countries: Secretariat General du CID in France,
tel: (1) 42 85 04 75
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
French co-chairman US co-chairman
Prof. Christian FLUHR Dr. Donald WALKER
Universite Paris XI/INSTN BELL Communications Research
J.C. Bassano (F) Universite d'Orleans
A. Bookstein (USA) University of Chicago
J. Bing (N) Norwegian research Center for Comp. and law
E. Black (USA) T.J. Watson IBM Research Center
C. Boitet (F) Universite de Grenoble
J. Boucher (CAN) Universite de Montreal
C. Chen (USA) Simmons College
Y. Choueka (Israel) Bar-Ilan University
C. Ciampi (I) Instituto per la Doc. jiuridica
X. Dalloz (F) Centre National de la Cinematographie
T. Doszkocs (USA) National Library of Medecine
E. Fox (USA) Virginia Polytechnic Institute
E. Garcia Camarero (SP) Universitad Complutense de Madrid
C. Goldstein (USA) National Library of Medecine
G. Grefenstette (F) Universite de Tours
H. Hjerppe (S) University of Link~oping
D. Kayser (F) Universite Paris XIII
P. Kirstein (UK) University College of London
R. Marcus (USA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
P. Mordini (F) Ecole des Mines de Paris
C. D. Paice (UK) University of Lancaster
A. S. Pollitt (UK) The Polytechnic Queensgate Uddersfield
F. Rabitti (I) Instituto dei Elabor. della Informazione
J. Rohmer (F) Bull, Louveciennes
G. Sabah (F) LIMSI(CNRS) Orsay
T. Saracevic (USA) Rutgers University
W. Turner (F) CDST (CNRS) Paris
H. J. Schneider (FRG) Technische Universit~at Berlin
C. Schwartz (FRG) Siemens M~unchen
assisted by a Technical and an Organisation Committee.
APPLICATION FORM
NAME:...........................................................................
TITLE/POSITION:.................................................................
ORGANIZATION:...................................................................
ADDRESS:........................................................................
CITY:................................STATE:.......................ZIP:.........
COUNTRY:........................................................................
I plan to attend the conference, please send me the program: YES NO
I plan to present a paper: YES NO
Conference theme (circle one): A B C D E F G
Title of the communication:
Are you willing to present a demonstration of your prototype?
YES NO
Equipment needed:
Please mail this form before September 15, 1987 to:
RIAO 88
Conference Service Office
MIT
Bldg 7, Room 111
CAMBRIDGE, MA
02139 USA
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