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IRList Digest Volume 5 Number 02
IRList Digest Monday, 2 January 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 2
Today's Topics:
Email - Note changes in phone and postal address here
Reply - Addresses of OWL: producers of Guide
- References on IR evaluation
Query - Theory of IR systems and other pointers
- Dissertation: need database of books, LCSH thesaurus
- References on Super Book project
Announcements - Assistant Professor Position at UCLA
- Research Position at Edinburgh
- N. Meyrowitz on "Intermedia" VPI&SU 11/30/88 seminar
News addresses are
Internet: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtcc1
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 88 10:25:37 EST
From: Edward A. Fox <fox>
Subject: phone and address changes for IRList readers
My phone line has changed to
(701) 231-5113
effective immediately. Also, the full zip code here is 24061-0106.
See the welcome msg in revised form as sent out in V5 #1
for more details.
Regards, Ed Fox
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From: Mr Jack Campin <jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 88 13:08:44 GMT
Subject: for IRLIST digest (address for Guide)
Guide is produced by OWL (Office Workstations Ltd), who are at the following
addresses:
OWL International Inc Office Workstations Ltd
14218 NE 21st St 5 Abbeymount Techbase
Bellevue 2 Easter Road
WA 98007 Edinburgh EH7 5AN
USA Scotland
(1) 206 747 3203 (44) 31 659 6737
Compuserve 76545,444 Compuserve 72057,703
I would have posted this directly to the Dutch person asking the question but
the email address was too incomplete to be any use. Maybe full addresses could
be added in future?
[Note: I ask that in my Welcome msg -- I share your
frustration in that I tried to reach him by email several
times and all attempts failed. - Ed.]
Jack Campin, Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank
Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND. 041 339 8855 x6045 wk 041 556 1878 ho
ARPA: jack%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk USENET: jack@glasgow.uucp
JANET: jack@uk.ac.glasgow.cs PLINGnet: ...mcvax!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack
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From: Prof Keith Van Rijsbergen <keith@uk.ac.glasgow.cs>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 15:36:12 GMT
To: Peter.Capell@EDU.CMU.CAT
Subject: evaluation (ref. V4 #57 inquiry)
Try Information Retrieval Experiment, Butterworths, 1981, Sparck Jones (ed).
Contains good source material and references to the literature.
My book has a good chapter too.
C.J. van Rijsbergen.
[Note: Peter's address is incorrect - I also had trouble
reaching him and hope he can supply a correct one - perhaps
Peter.Capell%cat.cmu.edu@relay.cs.net
might work? - Ed.]
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From: unido!softcon!uh@uunet.UU.NET (Ulrich Herold)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.theory.info-retrieval
Subject: retrieval
Keywords: retrieval, databases
Message-Id: <367@softcon.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 16:04:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: softcon.367
Posted: Tue Dec 13 17:04:26 1988
Reply-To: unido!softcon!uh@uunet.UU.NET (Ulrich Herold)
Organization: SOFTCON GmbH, Muenchen
Lines: 17
Hello,
I am looking for some hints or pointers to get some informations
about the theory of information-retrieval-systems,
i.e. database structures, retrieve technics and so on.
Or you have some experience with some retrieval systems.
Bye for now
uli
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| SOFTCON GmbH | FAX: (49) 89 - 7911152 |
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[Note: see the reply below from C.J. van Rijsbergen. I also
suggest you try to come to the ACM SIGIR mtg in June 89 in
Cambridge MA, join ACM SIGIR, read the recent book by Salton
"Automatic Text Processing", and let us know if you have
specific questions. We would be interested to know more
about your work and progress. - Ed.]
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Date: Thu 22 Dec 88 11:12:24-EST
From: Hsinchun Chen <HCHEN@NYBVX1>
Subject: AI & IR (IRlist)
Hi,
I am a Ph.D. student (ABD) in New York University
working on my dissertation. My thesis topic is:
"An Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Design of
Online Information Retrieval Systems".
During the past two years I conducted two cognitive
psychology based empirical studies observing the information
seeking behavior of online catalog users alone (searcher/system
interactions, 30 subjects) and with the assistance of reference
librarians (searcher/librarian/system interactions, 34 subjects).
Findings concerning online search strategies, query refinement
process, and knowledge components during the search
were derived from these two studies.
An article reporting a consultation model between
searchers and librarians was published in the Proceedings of the
American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1987.
Other papers are either under review or in preparation.
Currently I am in the process of developing a prototype system which
will incorporate those interesting findings.
Two things are necessary
for the completion of the prototype system: a database of book
records (at least over a couple of thousand records)
and a computer-readable form of LCSH thesaurus
(with terms and relationships between terms like the real big
red book, but perhaps in a smaller domaim such as: artificial intelligence,
management science, etc.).
The purpose of this mail is to solicit any pointers to
these two resources: A DATABASE OF BOOKS AND AN ONLINE LCSH THESAURUS.
Your information may be able to save me two month's manual effort.
Also I am interested in exchanging ideas and information concerning
the general topic of "applying AI techniques in information retrieval".
Thank you for your attention.
-- Hsinchun Chen
Information Systems department
New York University
624 Tisch Hall
Washington Square
New York, NY 10003
TEL: 212-9984205
BITNET: HCHEN@NYBVX1
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Subject: Reference details re talk at ACM Doc. Proc. Systems Conf.
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 88 15:52:12 EST
From: furuta@brillig.umd.edu
By the way, there was a reference from the floor during Salton's talk
about the "Bell Labs Super Book" project. Can you give me a more
direct citation on that? Thanks.
--Rick
[Note: Perhaps some readers can give a list of references
about the Bellcore project and other similar efforts? - Ed.]
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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 88 12:40 PST
From: Christine Borgman <IIN4CLB@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: job announcement - at UCLA
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Teaching specialty in management
The UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science is
seeking to make a full-time appointment in the area of management
at the assistant professor level. Interest in public librarianship
or services to special populations is desirable. The successful
candidate will also have the opportunity to teach in other areas.
Applications are desired from persons with a doctorate, or from
persons about to receive one, with demonstrated experience or strong
potential in teaching, with interest and competence in theoretical
and empirical research and with the knowledge of professional
practice. Salary will depend upon record of experience and competence
within the following established range: Assistant Professor:
$32,400 to $34,900, on a nine month academic year basis. The date of
appointment will be arranged between the candidate and GSLIS.
Inquire and send resume with a list of three references to:
Robert M. Hayes, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024.
Priority consideration will be given applications received before
15 January 1989.
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION EMPLOYER
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 12:08:36 GMT
From: Alan Bundy <bundy%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK>
Subject: Research Position at Edinburgh
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
(Mathematical Reasoning)
Applications are invited for an SERC supported post, tenable, as soon
as possible, on a mutually agreed date. Appointment will be to
September 30 1989, initially, but with a strong possibility of renewal
to at least September 30 1991. The research is to develop proof plans
, a technique for guiding the search for a proof in automatic theorem
proving. The main application is to the automatic synthesis,
verification and transformation of logic programs using constructive
logic. The project is led by Professor Alan Bundy and Dr Alan Smaill.
Candidates should possess a PhD or have equivalent research or
industrial experience. Knowledge of logic is essential and knowledge
of artificial intelligence, formal methods in software engineering or
logic programming would be an advantage. Salary is on the AR1A scale
in the range 9,865 - 15,105 pounds p.a., according to age and
experience.
Applicants should send a CV and the names of two referees to:
Prof. Alan Bundy.
Department of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh,
80 South Bridge,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1HN,
SCOTLAND.
as soon as possible. The closing date for applications is 16th
January 1989. Further details may be obtained from Prof. Bundy (at
the above address or email to bundy@uk.ac.edinburgh or
bundy@rutgers.edu) quoting reference number 5613.
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 10:35:32 EST
From: Norman Meyrowitz <nkm@IRIS>
Subject: Abstract & Bio for VPI&SU CS Seminar 11/30/88
Intermedia: The Architecture and Construction
of an Object-Oriented Hypertext/Hypermedia System
and Applications Framework
Norman Meyrowitz
Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS)
Brown University
Box 1946
Providence, RI 02912
ABSTRACT
When is an object-oriented methodology appropriate for designing a large
interactive system? When is object-oriented programming the appropriate
implementation vehicle for such a system? How does one coordinate the
efforts of a team simultaneously designing and developing an object-oriented
system? What advantages does object-oriented programming provide? What
disadvantages? What hardware and software exist today to serve as a base
for such systems?
We offer a case study of the design, architecture, and construction of a
large-scale integrated set of object-oriented applications, with the objective
of providing one snapshot of the object-oriented development process to aid
in answering questions such as those posed above.
Specifically, we present a chronological tour through the development of the
Intermedia system -- a large-scale, object-oriented hypertext/hypermedia
system -- from project inception through system implementation. The system
provides the ability to create sophisticate linkages between documents from
a variety of applications as well as providing a development framework for
creating additional applications that possess that capability.
The talk will cover the requirements, design, architecture, and implementation
phases. Emphasis will be placed on critically examining the approaches
we have taken, pointing out areas where standardization and research could
produce object-oriented technology better-suited to the job at hand.
BIO
Norman Meyrowitz, Associate Director of Brown University's Institute for
Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), has directed the Institute's
hypertext and multimedia research since he helped found the Institute in 1983.
Most recently, Meyrowitz has managed and been the principal architect of IRIS's
Intermedia system, a networked, shared, multi-user hypermedia system for
research and education. He has served on the program committees of a variety of
conferences including Hypertext '87, OOPSLA '86 , '87 and '88 and COIS '88.
Meyrowitz's major research interests are in the areas of component software,
next generation "desktop" environments, hypermedia, compound documents, text
processing, user-interface design, and object-oriented programming. In the past,
he has designed one of the first UNIX-based wndow management systems, an
object-oriented page-layout system, and object-oriented extensions to the C
programming language. He has authored and co-authored many technical
publications and several major IRIS proposals, and has given a wide variety of
talks and lectures. He has worked with a number of industrial partners on
hypertext and multimedia research.
Meyrowitz graduated from Brown in 1981 with a degree in Computer Science. He is
a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and Sigma Xi.
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