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NL-KR Digest Mon Aug 8 16:35:55 PDT 1994 Volume 13 No. 34
Today's Topics:
Query: references on discourse structure
Program: ICCS'94 Conceptual Structures, Aug 94, College Park
CFP: EACL 95 Student Sessions European Comp. Ling. Mar 95, Dublin
Announcement: CogSci-94 Aug 13, Atlanta
Announcement: WLP 94 Logic Programming, Oct 94, Zurich
CFP: SDAIR95 Doc. Analysis and Info. Retrieval, Apr 95, Las Vegas
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From: Carolyn Penstein Rose <cprose@lcl.cmu.edu>
Subject: Query: references on discourse structure
To: nl-kr@ai.sunnyside.com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 94 14:43:58 EDT
I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University working on
a qualifying paper on discourse structure of negotiation dialogues.
I am looking for references to work challenging the
strict embedding assumption behind Grosz and Sidner's theory
of discourse structure especially with respect to dialogue structure,
or any work regarding multiple headed negotiations (i.e. when more than
one suggestion is presented in a single turn).
Please send responses to:
Carolyn Penstein Rose'
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: cecilia@umiacs.UMD.EDU (Cecilia Kullman)
Subject: Program: ICCS'94 Conceptual Structures, Aug 94, College Park
Date: 3 Aug 1994 09:16:29 -0400
Second International Conference on
CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES
ICCS'94
August 16-20, 1994
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA
ADVANCE PROGRAM
10th Anniversary Meeting
Conceptual graphs (cgs) comprise a representational language which
consists of a logic with a graph notation. It integrates several
features from semantic net and frame representations. Research
teams around the world are working on the application and extension
of cgs theory in many domains. This conference is the forum in which
cgs researchers report their progress. Domains featured this year are
natural language understanding, database modeling, and knowledge
representation for expert systems. Also, the conference will support
three special interest workshops: PEIRCE: A Conceptual Graph Workbench;
Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory; and Deep Knowledge
Enterprise Modeling.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Tuesday, August 16
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome Address
9:30 - 10:30 Opening Address - Eileen Way
11:00 - 12:00 Session 1
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Session 2
3:00 - 4:30 Session 3
4:30 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
5:30 Reception
Wednesday, August 17
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Session 4
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Pat Hayes
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Session 5
3:00 - 5:00 Session 6
5:30 Buffet Reception
Thursday, August 18
8:00 - 9:00 Registration/Officers Meeting
9:00 - 10:30 Session 7
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk - Jack Minker
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Session 8
3:30 - 4:30 Closing Address - John Sowa
4:30 - 5:00 General Meeting
Friday, August 19
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Third PEIRCE Workshop:
A Conceptual Graph Workbench
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Knowledge Acquisition
Using Conceptual Graph Theory
Saturday, August 20
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Deep Knowledge
Enterprise Modeling
INVITED TALKS
EILEEN WAY, SUNY at Binghamton
"Conceptual Graphs - Past, Present, and Future"
Pay Hayes, Beckman Institute, Urbana, Ill.
"Aristotelian and Platonic Views of Knowledge Representation"
Jack Minker, University of Maryland at College Park
"Deductive Databases - A Retrospective"
John F. Sowa, SUNY at Binghamton
"Representations of Representations"
WORKSHOPS
Third PEIRCE Workshop: A Conceptual Graph Workbench
Chairperson: G. Ellis (Australia)
PEIRCE is an international project, the purpose of which is to
integrate conceptual graph tool and application development.
We shall discuss implementation techniques for conceptual graphs,
including databases, programs, language standards, workbench programming
standards, dictionaries, and graphical user interfaces.
Applications and requirements for natural language processing,
information systems engineering, software engineering, and machine
learning will be included as well.
Knowledge Acquisition Using Conceptual Graph Theory
Chairperson: D. Lukose (Australia)
The major issues to be discussed at the workshop are when, how,
and where particular knowledge acquisition paradigms work successfully.
Consequently, this discussion will focus on the prototypical knowledge
structures requisite for the knowledge acquisition process, the
cgs operators, and the different knowledge-processing activities that
will enable the encoding of the domain knowledge into knowledge base
systems. A better understanding of "when," "how," and "where" questions
will no doubt help to lay a solid foundation for development of new
knowledge acquisition paradigms based on conceptual graph theory.
3. Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling
Chairperson: A. Bejan (USA)
Co-organizer: Michel Wermelinger (Portugal)
The purpose of the Deep Knowledge Enterprise Modeling
Workshop is to investigate the formalization, storage and management
of knowledge for enterprise models. Conceptual graphs are
attractive due to their semantic power, ease of use, and
processability, but other systems of logic are also interesting.
Participants will debate any method or technique that may bring
a solution to the next generation enterprise information
modeling tools.
ACCOMMODATIONS
The conference facility is the Inn and Conference Center at the
University or Maryland. Rooms are $69 for single and $89 for
double occupancy. To make a room reservation at the Inn
and Conference Center, please call 301-985-7310.
Additional rooms are available at the Greenbelt
Marriott at $97 - $112 for a regular room and $107 - $122 for
an upgraded concierge room. Marriott Reservations: (301) 441-3700.
Quality Inn has rooms for $44 - $49. Please ask for University of
Maryland rates. Quality Inn Reservations: (301) 864-5820.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information please contact Cecilia Kullman at
301-405-6722, cecilia@umiacs.umd.edu.
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ICCS'94 REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ___________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
Telephone: ___________________________
Fax: ________________________________
e-mail: ______________________________
___ $325 Conference fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94
___ $370 Conference fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94
___ $125 Student fee (excl. workshops) before 7/15/94
___ $175 Student fee (excl. workshops) after 7/15/94
___ $50 PEIRCE Workshop
___ $40 PEIRCE Workshop, student
___ $35 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
___ $25 Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, student
___ $35 Enterprise Modeling Workshop
___ $25 Enterprise Modeling Workshop, student
Amount Enclosed: $________________
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO "UMIACS-ICCS'94."
Conference fee includes proceedings and receptions.
Payment must accompany the registration form. Checks must be
in US dollars only and payable to "UMIACS-ICCS'94." Please do not send cash.
CREDIT CARDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Students must provide a copy of
a student I.D. card or a letter from an advisor for proof of student
status.
RETURN TO:
Johanna Weinstein
UMIACS
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742, USA
Tel.: (301) 405-6722. Fax: (301) 314-9658
e-mail: johanna@umiacs.umd.edu
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To: arpanet-bboards@mc.lcs.mit.edu,
Subject: CFP: EACL 95 Student Sessions European Comp. Ling. Mar 95, Dublin
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 12:22:24 +0100
From: Allan Ramsay <allan@monkey.ucd.ie>
EACL-95 STUDENT SESSION
CALL FOR PAPERS
7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
March 27--31, 1995
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
PURPOSE: The goal of this session is to provide a forum for students and
PhD-students to present work in progress and receive feedback from other
members of the computational linguistics community. The session will be
workshop-style, consisting of short paper presentations by student
authors; students and senior researchers who are not presenting are
invited to participate in the discussion. A committee of students will
organize the session, review submitted papers and decide on acceptance.
The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the
conference proceedings.
TOPICS OF INTEREST: Papers are invited on research on all aspects of
computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics,
discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and
morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based language modeling;
machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces
and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and
theoretical and applications papers of every kind.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original, unpublished work in
progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. Papers
submitted to the main conference will not be considered for the student
session. Students may of course submit DIFFERENT papers to both. Note
that having a student session for the presentation of ongoing work in no
way influences the treatment of student-written papers submitted to the
main conference. Rather, the student session will provide an entirely
separate track emphasizing students' "work in progress" rather than
completed work.
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Preference is given to e-mail submission. Student
authors should submit papers limited to 3 pages (including references,
figures, and appendices), with typeface no smaller than 10pt. LaTeX,
Postscript and plain ASCII formats are acceptable. LaTeX submissions
must be self-contained LaTeX source and should not refer to any external
files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX
2.09. An extra identification page should be sent SEPERATELY by
electronic mail, containing the title, author(s), address(es) and topic
area(s). Hard copy submissions should be made only if no e-mail access
is available. Papers outside the specified length and formatting
requirements are subject to rejection without review.
Those submissions which are accepted will be published in a special
section of the EACL conference proceedings.
Papers should be submitted to:
Thorsten Brants
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik, Geb. 17
Postfach 1150
D-66041 Saarbruecken, Germany
phone: +49 / 681 / 302-4682
FAX: +49 / 681 / 302-4700
email: eaclstud@coli.uni-sb.de
STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: If you have questions about the student
session, contact Thorsten Brants by e-mail, phone, FAX or post (cf.
above).
SCHEDULE: Authors must SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS BY OCTOBER 20, 1994. Papers
received after this date will not be considered. Notification of
receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon
after receipt. Authors will be NOTIFIED OF ACCEPTANCE BY DECEMBER 23
1994. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared in a double-column
format, preferably using a laser printer, must be RECEIVED BY 31
JANUARY 1995, along with a signed copyright release statement. The ACL
LaTeX proceedings format is available through the ACL LISTSERV. The
paper presentations will take place on MARCH 29-31.
MAIN CONFERENCE INFORMATION: For information on the main conference
contact
the Program Co-Chairs: or the Local Arrangements Chair:
Steven Abney and Erhard W. Hinrichs Allan Ramsay
Universitaet Tuebingen Department of Computer Science
Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University College Dublin
Abt. Computerlinguistik Belfield, Dublin 4
Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 Ireland
D-72074 Tuebingen, phone: (353)-1-7062479
Germany FAX: (353)-1-2687262
email: eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de email: allan@monkey.ucd.ie
ACL LISTSERV: LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic
document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at
Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the
archive should be sent as e-mail messages to
listserver@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request
command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using
LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and
"get acl-l <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the
archive. For example, to get an ACL membership form, a message with the
following body should be sent:
get acl-l membership-form.txt
Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have
many requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up
and may take a while (say, overnight) to be fulfilled.
The ACL archive can also be accessed by anonymous FTP. Here is an
example of how to get the same file by FTP:
$ ftp ftp.cs.columbia.edu
Name (cs.columbia.edu:pereira): anonymous
Password: pereira@research.att.com << not echoed
ftp > cd acl-l/Information
ftp > get 94.membership.form.Z
ftp > quit
$ uncompress 94membership.form.Z
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To: comp-ai-nlang-know-rep@uunet.uu.net
From: ashwin@cc.gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Subject: Announcement: CogSci-94 Aug 13, Atlanta
Date: 02 Aug 1994 21:29:02 GMT
Reply-To: cogsci94@cc.gatech.edu
[PLEASE POST]
Low-cost on-campus housing is still available for CogSci-94, which is
being held August 13-16 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Registration and
housing forms are available electronically by anonymous FTP from
ftp.cc.gatech.edu:/pub/cogsci94, on the World Wide Web (WWW) from
http://www.gatech.edu/cogsci/cogsci.html, and by e-mail from
cogsci94@cc.gatech.edu; or contact kathleen Eiselt, (404) 894-8591.
The complete conference schedule and technical program is also available from
these sources, and includes:
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
- David Woods, "Observations from Studying Cognitive Systems in Context"
PLENARY TALKS:
- Walter Schneider, "Identifying the Modules of the Mind with fMRI:
Imaging the Biological Stages in Visual and Language Processing";
Steven Small (discussant)
- Lila Gleitman, "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words -- But That's the
Problem"; Paul Smolensky (discussant)
- Michael Pazzani, "The Role of Existing Knowledge in Generalization";
Mark Keane (discussant)
- (panel) "Cognitive Science 2004: The Last 10 Years"; T. Simon, Chair; J.
Bates, D. Gentner, J. Greeno, G. Harman, M. Pazzani, W. Schneider
SYMPOSIA:
- "Scientific Creativity: Multidisciplinary Perspectives"
- "What Animal Cognition Tells Us About Human Cognition"
- "Learning New Features of Representation"
- "Cognitive Science Meets Cognitive Engineering"
- "Visual Reasoning in Discovery, Instruction, and Problem Solving"
- "The Role of Cases in Learning"
- "Collaborative Knowledge"
PAPER/TALK and POSTER SESSIONS on: Categorization; Reasoning; Collaborative
Problem Solving; Representation in Connectionist Networks; Situated Natural
Language; Foundations; Analogical Reasoning; Sentence Processing; Problem
Solving; Brain Modeling; Visual Perception; Mental Models; Learning; Belief
Modeling; Speech; Analogy; Visual Reasoning; Perception; Language
Acquisition; Syntactic Processing.
For further information, please contact Kathleen Eiselt,
cogsci94@cc.gatech.edu, (404) 894-8591.
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From: fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch (Norbert E. Fuchs)
Subject: Announcement: WLP 94 Logic Programming, Oct 94, Zurich
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 14:57:46 GMT
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First Call for Participation
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The Gesellschaft fuer Logisches Programmieren GLP - a subsection of the
Association for Logic Programming ALP - and the sections 1.1 and 1.2 of the
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik GI invite you to participate at the
10th Logic Programming Workshop WLP 94
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University of Zurich
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5 - 7 October 1994
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Logic programming originates from the discovery that a subset of predicate
logic can be given a procedural interpretation thus forming the basis for
logic programming languages like Prolog, its extensions and successors.
The unique features of logic programming make it especially attractive for
many applications in artificial intelligence, program development,
databases, processing of language, computer aided design, programming with
constraints etc.
Preliminary Program
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The program of the Logic Programming Workshop includes three invited
lectures
Francois Bry (LMU Munich), Logic without Model Theory
Andreas Krall (TU Wien), Implementation Techniques for Prolog
Nada Lavrac (IJS Ljubljana), Inductive Logic Programming
the tutorial
Thom Fruehwirth (ECRC Munich), Constraint Handling Rules
presentations of a selection of the 36 submitted papers, poster sessions,
and demonstrations. The languages of the workshop are German and English.
Program Committee
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J. Eder, University of Klagenfurt
N. E. Fuchs, University of Zurich
U. Geske, GMD Berlin
G. Gottlob, TU Vienna
S. Hoelldobler, University of Dresden
R. Marti, ETH Zurich
L. Pluemer, University of Bonn
Organisers
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N. E. Fuchs
Department of Computer Science
University of Zurich
CH-8057 Zurich
E-Mail fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch
G. Gottlob
Christian Doppler Laboratory for Expert Systems
Institute for Applied Informatics and System Analysis
Technical University Vienna
A-1040 Wien
E-Mail gottlob@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Venue
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The Logic Programming Workshop will be held in the Department of Computer
Science at the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich, a picturesque
park easily reached by public transport. The campus provides restaurants
and a coffee shop.
Fees for the Workshop
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The fee for the workshop is for
members of ALP/GLP, CompulogNet, GI, SGAICO SFr. 100
students SFr. 50
others SFr. 120
The fee covers admission to all lectures and presentations, a copy of the
proceedings and morning and afternoon refreshments.
Application
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Please send the attached application form before 21 September - preferably
by email - transferring at the same time your fee to the account of the
workshop.
Accommodation
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We ask all participants to take care of their accommodation. Please contact
the pertinent addresses directly. For tourist information contact the
Zurich Tourist Association (Verkehrsverein Zurich, Bahnhofsplatz 15,
CH-8023 Zurich, telephone: +41-1- 211 40 00, fax +41-1-212 01 41).
Rooms have been reserved in hotels situated only a short distance from the
Irchel Campus. Please make your reservations before September 1 using the
attached hotel reservation form.
A small number of more modest rooms are available at the dormitory of the
Hospital of the University of Zurich and can be booked on a
first-come-first-served basis. The rate for one night without breakfast is
SFr. 40. Please contact Ms. Vellumin (Wohndienst, Universitaetsspital,
Schmelzbergstrasse 26, CH-8091 Zurich, telephone +41-1-255 28 14) referring
to WLP 94.
The Zurich Youth Hostel (Jugendherberge SJH, Mutschellenstrasse 114,
CH-8038 Zurich, telephone +41-1-482 35 44, fax +41-1-481 99 92) is located
about 30 minutes by tram from the Irchel Campus.
Sponsoring
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The workshop organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the
following organisations: Association for Logic Programming ALP, ESPRIT
Network of Excellence CompulogNet, Gesellschaft fuer Informatik GI,
Department of Computer Science of the University of Zurich IFI, and Swiss
Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science SGAICO.
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Logic Programming Workshop WLP 94
Application Form
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Name
Organisation
Address
Country
Telephone
Fax
Electronic Mail Address
Fee
Member of Organisation /Member Number
Student (please send qualifying certificate)
Please return before 21 September to
N. E. Fuchs
Department of Computer Science
University of Zurich
CH-8057 Zurich
E-Mail fuchs@ifi.unizh.ch
and transfer your fee to
Account 1100-0052.371 "WLP 94"
Zuercher Kantonalbank
Postfach 715
CH-8010 Zurich
Switzerland
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Logic Programming Workshop WLP 94
Hotel Reservation Form
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Name
Organisation
Address
Country
Telephone
Fax
Electronic Mail Address
Arrival Date Arrival Time Departure Date
Please indicate the desired number and category of rooms. Rates are in SFr.
per room and night with continental breakfast, service charges and taxes
included.
No. Room 70-100 101-130 131-150 151-180 181-210
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Signature
Please return before 1 September to
Verkehrsverein Zurich
Kongressbuero
Postfach
CH-8023 Zurich
Switzerland
fax: +41-1-211 39 81
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Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 16:59 EDT
From: lewis@research.att.com (David Lewis)
To: nl-kr@cs.rpi.edu
Subject: CFP: SDAIR95 Doc. Analysis and Info. Retrieval, Apr 95, Las Vegas
Call for Papers
Fourth Annual Symposium
on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR '95)
April 24-26, 1995
Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Conference Chair:
Donna Harman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
SCOPE
The purpose of this symposium is to present the results of current
research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas in the general field
of Document Understanding. Papers on all aspects of document analysis
and information retrieval are solicited, with particular emphasis on:
Document Analysis
Multilingual OCR
Language identification
Multilingual character sets
Domain specific dictionaries / lexicons
Logical structure recognition
Recognition of tables and equations
Recognition of maps and mechanical drawings
Information Retrieval
Full-text retrieval
Retrieval from structured documents
Text categorization
Evaluation of IR systems
Image and multimedia retrieval
Language-specific influences on retrieval
Text representation
The two themes to be highlighted at this year's symposium are the
intersection of document analysis and information retrieval, and the
ramifications of multilingual data in both fields.
SUBMISSIONS
Please send seven copies of complete papers, with authors name,
address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address to the
appropriate Program Chair:
Larry Spitz, Chair (Doc. Analysis)
or
David D. Lewis, Chair (Info. Ret.)
c/o Information Science Research Institute
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Box 454021
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021
The papers should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000
words. Papers which have already appeared in journals or published
conference proceedings should not be submitted. Both camera ready and
machine readable copies of the accepted papers will be required. The
proceedings will be available at the conference.
CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
Papers Due October 1, 1994
Notification To Authors December 1, 1994
Camera Ready Copy February 1, 1995
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Document Analysis
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Larry SPITZ, Fuji Xerox (chair)
Henry BAIRD, AT&T Bell Labs
Andreas DENGEL, DFKI
Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi
Jonathon HULL, SUNY Buffalo
Junichi KANAI, UNLV
Juergen SCHUERMANN, Daimler Benz
Suzanne TAYLOR, Unisys
Karl TOMBRE, INRIA
Information Retrieval
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David LEWIS, AT&T Bell Labs (chair)
Christopher BUCKLEY, Cornell
Kenneth CHURCH, AT&T Bell Labs
Robert KORFHAGE, U. Pittsburgh
Fausto RABITTI, CNR-IEI
Kazem TAGHVA, UNLV
TOKUNAGA Takenobu, Tokyo Inst. Tech.
Howard TURTLE, West Publishing
Peter WILLETT, U. Sheffield
Ross WILKINSON, RMIT
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