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IRList Digest Volume 5 Number 01
IRList Digest Monday, 2 January 1989 Volume 5 : Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Email - Revised Version of Welcome Msg: Please Read!
News addresses are
Internet: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtcc1
Happy New Year!
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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 89 09:21:48 EST
From: Edward A. Fox <fox>
Subject: New Version of Welcome Information - please read!
Welcome to the IRList. I am the moderator of the IRList discussion.
I am responsible for composing the digest from pending submissions,
controlling the volume and frequency of mail, keeping an archive, and
answering administrative requests. Please read the relevant
parts of the message below so we can all benefit as much as
possible from IRList.
SUBMISSIONS AND INQUIRIES
You may submit material for the digest, or ask administrative type
questions, to a variety of places, depending on what network you are on
and how quickly and reliably you want mail to reach me. We do not
have to pay for individual mail deliveries, but they do vary in speediness
and reliability. Possibilities include:
If on ARPANET and can use domains, or on CSNET, use one of
fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
fox%fox.cs.vt.edu@dcssvx.cc.vt.edu (if above fails)
foxea%vtcc1.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
If on BITNET, use foxea@vtcc1
If on UUCPNET, (since I have no direct link) use something like
... seismo!vtcc1.bitnet!foxea
I handle my correspondence on a variety of machines so please note the
addresses above and use them unless I say otherwise, even if you get a
message from me from another machine.
Note that there is a parallel USENET discussion group
comp.theory.info-retrieval
which you can participate in - feel free to ask to be removed from
the direct distribution list if you choose to participate that way
instead. Posting of IRList to USENET is handled by
Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
1017 Molalla Avenue, Suite 3
Oregon City, Oregon 97045, USA
(503) 657-7294 hplabs!hpfcla!hpubvwa!vantage!ray
but you probably won't have to contact him unless you think
there is a problem with the USENET feed.
ARCHIVES
As you might expect, archival copies of all digests will be kept; feel
free to ask for some recent back issues. Note that FTP is now finally
possible; here are the details. Use something like one of the following
to connect:
ftp fox.cs.vt.edu
or ftp 128.173.2.110
The password for account "guest" is "anonymous". The archives are inside
the "guest" directories: irlist_v1, irlist_v2, irlist_v3, irlist_v4, etc.
Most are single issues but early issues are grouped together. Also,
the 3 volumes of IRList from 1985 through the end of 1987 were on beta
copies of the CD-ROM, Virginia Disc One, that was produced by Nimbus
Records under my direction in 1988. The final version of that disc will be
produced in ISO form in Jan. 1989 and will have the above-mentioned 3
volumes in searchable form using Personal Librarian, as before, but will
also have downloadable ASCII files for volumes 1-4. Virginia Disc 3,
which will be mountable under A/UX for Apple Macintosh II systems running
that version of UNIX, will also have an archive of volumes 1-4 and should
be distributed early in 1989. Contact me for free copies of either disc.
Finally, people who know how can use BITNET "listserv" software to access
the irlist-l archive on BITNET node vtvm2 for searching and extraction.
However, if these are not possible for you, then all communication about
the archive must be with me, using EMAIL or phone or letter.
TOPICS
IRList is open to discussion of any topic (vaguely) related to
information retrieval. Certainly, any material relating to ACM SIGIR
(the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of ACM --
the Association for Computing Machinery) is of interest. Our field
has close ties to artificial intelligence, database management,
information and library science, linguistics, ...
A partial list of topics suitable are:
Information Management/Processing/Science/Technology
AI Applications to IR Hypertext and Hypermedia
Abstracting Indexing/Classification
CD-ROM / CD-I / ... Information Display/Presentation
Citation Studies Information Retrieval Applications
Cognitive Psychology Information Theory
Communications Networks Knowledge Representation
Computational Linguistics Language Understanding
Cybernetics Library Science
Data Abstraction Matching
Dictionary Analysis Message Handling
Document Representations Natural Languages, NL Processing
Electronic Books Optical Disc Technology and Applications
Electronic Publishing Pattern Recognition
Evidential Reasoning Probabilistic Techniques for IR
Expert Systems in IR Speech Analysis
Full-Text Retrieval Statistical Techniques
Fuzzy Set Theory Storage Media and Devices
Hardware Aids for IR Thesaurus Construction
Human-Computer Interaction User Interface Design
Contributions may be anything from tutorials to rampant speculation.
In particular, the following are sought:
Abstracts of Papers,Reports,Dissertations Address Changes
Bibliographies Conference Reports
Descriptions of Projects/Laboratories Half-Baked Ideas
Histories Humorous,Enlightening Anecdotes
Questions Requests
Research Overviews Seminar Announcements/Summaries
Work Planned or in Progress
The only real boundaries to the discussion are defined by the topics
of other mailing lists. Please do not send communications to both
this list and AIList or the Prolog list, except in special cases.
I will try not to overlap much with NL-KR, except when we both receive
materials from contributors or from some bulletin board or researchers.
PLEASE SIGN YOUR NEWS AND INQUIRIES!
PLEASE "sign" subscriptions with full name and address so that people
can access you from Internet and/or BITNET and/or USENET (many other
networks can be reached through them and are certainly urged to
participate). Note that it is very hard to reach many sites, so be
sure you make it simple by having the "high level domain" be one of:
ARPA BITNET COM EDU GOV MIL NET UK UUCP
If your address does not end in one of those, add in the name of the
appropriate relay machine that is on one of those networks, if you can.
It may be impossible for me or others to reach you if you do not follow
this simple procedure -- you know where you are but we still lack a global
directory system that allows others to find you flexibly and reliably!
PLEASE SEND IN DROP OR ADDRESS CHANGE REQUESTS!
Please let me know if you no longer want to receive the digest, since
it is much harder to track that down by my getting mailer error messages.
Note that IRList does not come out on a regular schedule. It will often
come out in batches, since it is so hard to get all of the address
changes made more frequently. Thus, you can help us all by letting me know
promptly about address changes. You can inquire if you think you may have
missed an issue, since I enforce the policy of dropping any members
off the list if I keep getting delivery errors and can't get an answer
from you or your postmaster.
EDITORIAL POLICY
Editing of contributions will usually be limited to text justification
and spelling corrections. Editorial remarks and elisions will be marked
with square brackets. The author will be contacted if significant
editing is required. I have no objection to distributing material
that is destined for conference proceedings or any other publication.
I support ACM SIGIR Forum and unless you request otherwise may encourage
inclusion of submissions in whole or in part in future paper versions of
the FORUM. Indeed, this is one form of appeal for FORUM contributions!
Both IRList and the FORUM are unrefereed, and opinions are always those
of the author and not of any organization unless there are other
indications. Copies of list items should credit the original author,
not necessarily the IRList. If you are interested in submitting to
Information Processing and Management (IP&M), I would be happy to
entertain a discussion with you as well. Also about The Laserdisk
Professional, an excellent publication about CD-ROM and optical discs.
Another home for IR publications is ACM Transactions on Office
Information Systems which will probably be renamed to reflect this but
can be submitted to now - for more information contact the ACM SIGIR
Chairman and TOOIS editorial board member, W. Bruce Croft at
croft%cs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net
or the Editor in Chief of TOOIS, Robert Allen at
rba@flash.bellcore.com
One last announcement - feel free to contact me regarding book or
"electronic products" to be distributed under the ACM Press label -
see the article by Peter Wegner in Feb. 1988 CACM or my article that
appeared in the Aug. 1988 CACM.
The list does not assume copyright, nor does it accept any liability
arising from remailing of submitted material. Further, no liability
is accepted for use of such materials for information retrieval research,
including distribution of test collections. I reserve the right,
however, to refuse to remail any contribution that I judge to be of
commercial purpose, obscene, libelous, irrelevant, or pointless.
I also reserve the right to republish and/or redistribute IRList
submissions or collections thereof in electronic form, on CD-ROM, etc.
Replies to public requests for information should be sent, at least
in "carbon" form, to this list unless the request states otherwise.
If necessary, I will digest or abstract the replies to control the
volume of distributed mail. However, PLEASE DO contribute! I would
rather deal with too much material than with too little. -- Ed Fox
Edward A. Fox, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science,
Virginia Tech (VPI&SU), McBryde Hall Rm. 562, Blacksburg VA 24061-0106
(703) 231-5113 or 6931 fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
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