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IRList Digest Volume 4 Number 50
IRList Digest Saturday, 12 November 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 50
Today's Topics:
Email - Help with IRList
- BITNET mail failure
Query - Citations to RABBITT work at Xerox
- More like "Hypertext on Hypertext"
- Bibliographic software
- Info for AI geneology and bibliography
Call for Papers - ASIS Midyear 1989
News addresses are
Internet: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtcc1.bitnet (replaces foxea@vtvax3)
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 88 06:48:56 EST
From: Edward A. Fox <fox>
Subject: Help needed - IRList Delays and Mail Handling
Dear Readers,
I apologize for the fact the IRList has not been coming out
very often. I need some help. Here are some points of explanation:
1) Mailing list maintenance has become a real mess. I have been
trying to use Apple's version of A/UX on a Mac II to manage IRlist
mail, and am afraid there are a number of problems which I hope
Apple will fix in their next release. So, recently, I have
been trying to switch to use several VAX systems, and while I
think I now have a reliable scheme to try, am afraid that people
may have missed a number of issues. I suggest that people use
FTP or use our Listserv archive to get missed issues if they know
how to do that. Instructions on FTP are in the Welcome msg I
send everyone - let me know if you need a copy. I invite anyone
who can explain it to send instructions on how to use Listserv
to access the complete database of IRList messages we have
accessible that way. I also ask that as much as possible,
people sign all submissions and requests for address changes
with an address that I can use and recirculate - it
sometimes takes several days of trying to figure out from
the "From:" field how to get back to someone.
2) I am finding it difficult to keep up with all the address
changes and errors. I would welcome a volunteer to take over
the address list maintenance, and even the moderator job, if
such is desired. As ACM Press Database and Electronic Products
continues to develop, I will have even less time to handle the
address problems. And I am sure someone else must have a better
arrangement than I have here -- involving a Mac II and 3 VAXen
and an IBM mainframe whenever I have to update addresses.
3) I am afraid that UUCP mailing of IRList has not been very
reliable. Please note that there is a USENET group (I am not
sure if that has been getting through either, though):
comp.theory.info-retrieval
UUCP users may want to refer to that instead of getting
private messages which I am now sending via BITNET since
other means cause our mailers to fail.
Thanks for your patience as I try to eradicate our backlog and
get issues sent out reliably.
- Ed.
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 14:14:15 EDT
Reply-To: Pat Reber <PJRCU@CUNYVM>
Sender: Link failure announcements <LINKFAIL@BITNIC>
Subject: Lost Mail Files at CUNYVM Internet Gateway
Due to a system malfunction, all mail files awaiting delivery to the
Internet via the CUNYVM gateway as of 1:00 p.m., October 31st have been
lost. This affected between 1500 and 1800 mail files. (It did not affect
mail over 3 days old -- that had either been delivered or returned as
undeliverable.)
We regret this inconvenience.
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Pat Reber, Info Rep/CUNY
Director of User Services
The City University of New York/University Computer Center
555 W. 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-903-3622
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From: Prof Keith Van Rijsbergen <keith%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 88 14:06:57 BST
Subject: Citations on RABBITT work at Xerox
Can anyone send me recent citations to the RABBIT work
done by TOU, WILLIAMS etc at Xerox.
keith van rijsbergen
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Date: 4 Nov 88 19:12 EST
From: JNEVINS%HERC.decnet@ge-crd.arpa
Subject: Query.. Do you have more items like "HYPERTEXT ON HYPERTEXT"?
To: Ed Fox , Editor ACM Press Database and Electronic Products
From: Jim Nevins, Programmer at GE
53 Appleton St, Apt 3
Arlington, MA 02174
Subject: The "HYPERTEXT ON HYPERTEXT" for the IBMpc is GREAT !!
(especially mouse version)
I especially enjoyed your HYPERTEXT item because
I recently worked on PROJECT ALBERT here at GE where we touched on
Electronic manuals. Project Albert is a small, portable, Ai-based,
diagnostic system that in addition has on-line electronic manuals.
All of ALBERT is in a prototype mode.
Funny thing is our potential customer thought that the best part
of our system wasn't the AI....
wasn't the diagnostics... wasn't even ALBERT !
They were excited about the Electronic manuals !!
Do you know what language HYPERTIES was written in at the University
of Maryland ??
Do you have other educational products for sale that run on
IBMpc/xt/at/386 based machines ??
[Note: Regarding other products, there are versions of
Hypertext on Hypertext for Mac under HyperCard, and for SUNs
and Apollos under KMS. There may be a version using OWL's
Guide which runs on IBM PCs and Macs. I hope Ben Shneiderman
at U. Maryland, who was editor in charge of Hyperties version,
will reply regarding the language used for development - I
will guess that they used "C".
We are planning a series of other products and welcome
your comments and suggestions (and any volunteering of
assistance! There are various CD-ROM and diskette and SUN
cartridge tape distribution plans but it would be very nice
to have an expression of user preferences so we can
prioritize our efforts appropriately. Thanks for the
interest - Ed.]
Also... I read that you are directing the creation of the Virginia Disc
Series of CD-ROM products. Do you have any CD-ROM products for sale.
I have a CD-ROM player at home and we have a couple here at work that
we are using for research/education. At one point we looked at adding
a CD-ROM drive to ALBERT but the power/size requirements are to much
for ALBERT to bear.
[Note: Virginia Discs are free - would you like one? We are
finally close to pressing Virginia Disc One - have added the
Windows Version of Personal Librarian, a new version of
TOPIC, and are adding more IR test collections - an old
collection from TIME, the LISA collection from Sheffield,
and the Rutgers collection of Dialog records used in a large
set of experiments by Saracevic et al. If we can get all
the remaining missing files ... - Ed.]
-- JIM NEVINS
Email: CBSVAX::JNEVINS%HERC.decnet@GE-CRD.ARPA
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Date: Sat, 05 Nov 88 17:54:32 CST
From: Gerald Kutish <ACRC0008@UNLVM>
Subject: bibliographic software
Can anyone give me some information on the all time best
BIBLIOGRAPHIC program on MS-DOS or Macintosh which does
the following:
-takes bibliographic citation
-abstract
-extract by key-word
-sort by author etc
-reformat the citation to fit publication
-database like
thanks--gerald kutish
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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 88 14:32:25 PDT
From: rik%cs@ucsd.edu (Rik Belew)
Subject: Request for information for AI genealogy, bibliography
AI GENEALOGY
Building an AI family tree
Over the past several years we have been developing a collection of
bibliographic references to the literature of artificial intelligence
and cognitive science. We are also in the process of developing a
system, called BIBLIO, to make this information available to
researchers over Internet. My initial work was aimed at developing
INDEXING methods which would allow access to these citations by
appropriate keywords. More recently, we have explored the use of
inter-document CITATIONS, made by the author of one document to
previous articles, and TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATIONS, developed by editors
and librarians to describe the entire literature.
We would now like to augment this database of bibliographic information
with "cultural" information, specifically a family tree of the
intellectual lineage of the authors. I propose to operationalize this
tree in terms of each author's THESIS ADVISOR and COMMITTEE MEMBERS,
and also the RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS where they work. It is our thesis
that this factual information, in conjuction with bibliographic
information about the AI literature, can be used to characterize
important intellectual developments within AI, and thereby provide
evidence about general processes of scientific discovery. A nice
practical consequence is that it will help to make information
retrievals from bibliographic databases, using BIBLIO, smarter.
I am sending a query out to several EMail lists to ask for your help
in this enterprise. If you have a Ph.D. and consider yourself a
researcher in AI, I would like you to send me information about where
you got your degree, who your advisor and committee members were, and
where you have worked since then. Also, please forward this query to
any of your colleagues that may not see this mailing list. The
specific questions are contained in a brief questionnaire below, and
this is followed by an example. I would appreciate it if you could
"snip" this (soft copy) questionnaire, fill it in and send back to me
intact because this will make my parsing job easier.
Also, if you know some of these facts about your advisor (committee
members), and their advisors, etc., I would appreciate it if you could
send me that information as well. One of my goals is to trace the
genealogy of today's researchers back as far as possible, to (for
example) participants in the Dartmouth conference of 1956, as well as
connections to other disciplines. If you do have any of this
information, simply duplicate the questionnaire and fill in a separate
copy for each person.
Let me anticipate some concerns you may have. First, I apologize for
the Ph.D. bias. It is most certainly not meant to suggest that only
Ph.D.'s are involved in AI research. Rather, it is a simplification
designed to make the notion of "lineage" more precise. Also, be
advised that this is very much a not-for-profit operation. The results
of this query will be combined (into an "AI family tree") and made
publically available as part of our BIBLIO system.
If you have any questions, or suggestions, please let me know. Thank
you for your help.
Richard K. Belew
Asst. Professor
Computer Science & Engr. Dept. (C-014)
Univ. Calif. - San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
619/534-2601
619/534-5948 (messages)
rik%cs@ucsd.edu
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AI Genealogy questionnaire
Please complete and return to:
rik%cs@ucsd.edu
NAME:
Ph.D. year:
Ph.D. thesis title:
Department:
University:
Univ. location:
Thesis advisor:
Advisor's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Committee member:
Member's department:
Research institution:
Inst. location:
Dates:
Research institution:
Inst. location:
Dates:
Research institution:
Inst. location:
Dates:
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AI Genealogy questionnaire
EXAMPLE
NAME: Richard K. Belew
Ph.D. year: 1986
Ph.D. thesis title: Adaptive information retrieval: machine learning
in associative networks
Department: Computer & Communication Sciences (CCS)
University: University of Michigan
Univ. location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thesis advisor: Stephen Kaplan
Advisor's department: Psychology
Thesis advisor: Paul D. Scott
Advisor's department: CCS
Committee member: Michael D. Gordon
Member's department: Mgmt. Info. Systems - Business School
Committee member: John H. Holland
Member's department: CCS
Committee member: Robert K. Lindsay
Member's department: Psychology
Research institution: Univ. California - San Diego
Computer Science & Engr. Dept.
Inst. location La Jolla, CA
Dates: 9/1/86 - present
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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 88 11:10 PST
From: Christine Borgman <IIN4CLB@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: ASIS Mid-Year meeting
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: Please forward to anyone who may be interested.
Submitted by Christine Borgman, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, 213/825-1379.
IIN4CLB@UCLAMVS
Call for papers and session proposals
THE USER INTERFACE
1989 American Society for Information Science Mid-Year Meeting
May 21-24, 1989, San Diego
THe 18th ASIS Mid-Year Meeting, May 21-24, 1989, in San Diego,
California, will present the state-of-the art in the design of
interfaces for information retrieval systems, online public
access catalogs and other information technologies. We will
identify major tendencies, trends, influences, and approaches
in interface design and discuss their significance for the systems
of the future.
Particular focus will be placed on the major activities involved
in the design of interfaces, such as tools and techniques for
interface design, user models and their application, and the
process of task and interaction analysis.
Program ideas and contributions are invited in all related areas.
Discussions and explorations of existing interfaces, particularly
those that imply lessons for other designers, are also welcome.
Major themes in *The User Interface*:
Tools
- Rapid prototyping systems
- Design environments
- User interface development and management tools
Natural Language Interfaces
- Interfaces that allow natural language input by users
Artificial Intelligence Approaches
- Expert systems and knowledge-based approaches
Interface styles
-Command, menu, or direct manipulation: their uses and advantages
Adaptive-Adaptable Systems
- Systems or systems features that are user-modifiable or that adapt
to specific users
Usability
- Evaluation and testing of interfaces and interface ideas
Guidelines and Standards for Interfaces
- International, national, or in-house
Interested presenters are encouraged to expand on any of these theme
ideas. Acceptance will be based on the relevance of the topic,
substantive nature of the presentation, and clarity.
Proposals should take the following form:
Contributed papers: Submit the title and a 250-word abstract
Demonstration proposals: Submit a written description of a
demonstration of a particular system related to the meeting topic.
Include a statement of the equipment requirements to support the
proposed demonstration.
Panel discussion proposals: Submit a one-page description of a
topic for a panel discussion and a list of possible speakers to
address the topic.
For fullest consideration, all proposals should be submitted by
November 21, 1988. Notification of acceptance or rejection will
be made by January 3, 1989.
All proposals and inquiries should be submitted to:
Martin Dillon, 1989 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting
Director, Office of Research
OCLC
6565 Frantz Road
BITNET: MJD@OCLCRSUN
ASIS Special Interest Groups wishing to sponsor SIG programs should
contact Debora Shaw, Indiana University, at SHAW@IUBACS.
ASIS SIG/UOI (User Online Interaction) is interested in co-sponsoring
sessions. For further information contact Thomas Martin of Syracuse
University at TMARTIN@SUVM.
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