FOXEA@VTCC1 (07/21/88)
IRList Digest Tuesday, 19 July 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 38
Today's Topics:
Email - Changes from vtvax3 to vtcc1 for BITNET mail
Query - SMART system
- On-line documentation software
- Stemming algorithms
- Do on-line costs effect search style?
- LaTeX submissions to ACM SIGIR FORUM
Reply - Electronic submissions to FORUM
Announcement - Call for nominations for IJCAI awards
News addresses are
Internet or CSNET: fox@vtopus.cs.vt.edu or fox@fox.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet (later on will be foxea@vtcc1)
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From: VTCC1::JARRELLRA "Ronald A. Jarrell"
Date: 18-JUL-1988 20:25
Subj: Routing tables
[Note: this is in reply to my query, on behalf of many IRList
subscribers who wondered why they could not reply to messages I send
out from vtcc1. I asked when the BITNET routing tables would have
vtcc1 included so we can drop vtvax3 as incoming address. - Ed.]
The current tables include CC1, and PSUVM has us listed on their machine.
However the adjacent nodes to it don't, so I can't track it any
farther. It generally takes 2-3 weeks for the table to get installed
on major nodes, and up to 2 months for all the minor ones.
We recommend including warnings in all outgoing mail that VTCC1 may
not be known to the receiving node, and that reply mail be directed
to VTVAX3 instead, which will be delivered to VTCC1.
-Ron
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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 13:12:23 EDT
From: dlee@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Dik Lee)
Subject: Public-domain SMART
Prof. Fox,
In a previous item in SIGIR digest, it was mentioned that
the SMART system by Chris Buckley and Gerard Salton was in public
domain and available on UNIX. Since you also mentioned in the same
article that you are involved in that project, I was wondering if you
can tell me where and how I can obtain the system.
- Dik Lee
Dept. Computer and Information Science dlee@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University ..!cbosgd!tut.cis.ohio-state!dlee
Columbus, OHIO 43210-1277 614-292-2568
[Note: I suggest you send an email message to Professor Salton's
secretary - geri@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Geri Pinkham)
or write directly to him at - Dept. of Computer Science,
Cornell Univ., 4130 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-7501. I believe you
will need a system running 4.xBSD UNIX. - Ed.]
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From: Vic Tisone <tisone@hao.ucar.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.theory.info-retrieval,comp.misc
Subject: ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION SOFTWARE
Date: 29 Jun 88 21:42:11 GMT
Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu
Reply-To: tisone@hao.ucar.edu
Organization: High Altitude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO
We have formed a Documentation Advisory committee where I work. We are
in the process of doing a survey on ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION SOFTWARE that might
be available out there. We have generated a few guidelines as to what we
need and they are as follows:
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VENDER ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION SPECIFICATIONS
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1.) The on-line documentation system should easily interface with many
different types of networks, operating systems and terminals.
2.) The system should provide a reasonable functional response time for
users.
3.) The system should easily maintainable. The system should provide easy
system backup, file restore, and system updating.
4.) The vender should have the flexability to customize their software.
5.) The software should ave the ability to gather user statistics on use of
documentation on-line system.
6.) The software should have the ability to gather users' comments as to the
quality and errors in the current on-line documentation.
7.) It would be nice if the software had a standard documentation program so
that all documentation written would be of the same style and format and
easily entered into the documentation database.
8.) Vender should be easily accessible for problems and respond to fix
software bugs in a reasonable time.
in a reasonable time
We would like to obtain any information as to people out there are using.
What venders are out there that might supply such software. If software
is currently working, are you happy with it. We would like any information
if possible. Thanks much.
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From: mcvax!prismaa.prl.philips.nl!aalbersb@uunet.UU.NET
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 88 09:39:15 +0200
Subject: stemming algorithms
Hi,
Is there somebody on the IR-list who can give me (references to)
stemming algorithms? Since I am not a linguist, I prefer to get
some detailed descriptions of algorithms instead of very general
ideas on them.
Thanks in advance.
IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg
Philips Research Laboratories
P.O.Box 80000
5600 JA Eindhoven
The Netherlands UUCP: aalbersb@prismaa.prl.philips.nl
[Note: I hope you can get Drs. Paice and Porter to reply, or Bill
Frakes to tell how to get his dissertation on stemming. Donna
Harman has also done some interesting studies recently, so perhaps
we can get you some useful discussion rather than just have you
find out about some older algorithms. - Ed.]
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From: BITNET%"JZEM@MARIST" 9-JUL-1988 15:55
To: FOXEA
Subj: Do online costs effect search style?
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 88 15:46:45 EDT
From: "William J. Joel" <JZEM@MARIST>
Subject: Do online costs effect search style?
To: FOXEA@VTVAX3
Currently I am a professor of computer science, but for seven and a
half years before that I was an information specialist, that is, I did
online searches for a living. The firm I worked for utilized outside
services so that cost was always a factor. We were told to prepare our
searches as best as possible before we got online, so as to keep costs
down. Yet, I always got the feeling that the best searches I did were
when I prepared merely the basic idea of a search, and then fleshed it
out once I got online.
I'd like to make an analogy. When one goes to the library to do a search
of the stacks. one usually does not prepare a strategy completely before
going. Searching the stacks is an interactive activity and I feel that
online searching is much the same. Only, online searching has a cost
associated with it that stack searching usually does not.
Do others share my views?
Bill Joel
Marist College
email: jzem@marist.bitnet
[Note: I think that one of the exciting qualities of CD-ROM is that
it is a media where people can have their own copies of databases (if
the drives become more widely available and database prices come
down) so people can not be under pressure of time and money when
doing research. - Ed.]
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 09:05
From: "H.Ludwig Hausen +49-2241142426" <HAUSEN@DBNGMD21>
To: "Prof.Dr. Edward A. Fox" <foxea@vtvax3>
Subject: add to list, electronic submissions
Dr. Fox, please add me to the IRlist.
I am interested in adaptive IR techniques and the application of
IR systems in engineering (software engineering, systems engineering,
etc.). How can I obtain back issues? Is it possible to get a content
list?
[Note: I announced ftp services in #36 and I hope we will get
listserv files and searching ready soon. - Ed.]
By the way are you the editor of the SIGIR FORUM? If so is it possible
to send you a contribution, written in LATEX, by e-mail?
[Note: no, I am no longer editor. Co-editors are Vijay Raghavan (see
next message) and Bill Frakes. - Ed.]
Yours,
H A N S - L U D W I G H A U S E N
GMD Schloss Birlinghoven Telefax +49-2241-14-2618
D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 Teletex 2627-224135=GMD VV
West GERMANY Telex 8 89 469 gmd d
E-mail hausen@dbngmd21.BITNET
Telephone +49-2241-14-2440 or 2426
P.S.:GMD (Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung)
German National Research Institute of Computer Science
German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT)
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 10:41:22 CDT
From: "Dr. Raghavan" <raghavan%raghavansun%usl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET>
To: hausen%dbngmd21.bitnet@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: electronic submission to SIGIR Forum
Dear Hans,
I heard through Ed Fox about your interest in submitting an article
to the Forum. You may send LATEX document to me by e-mail. I can have
it processed locally. Thank you for your consideration of the SIGIR
Forum. With best wishes, Vijay Raghavan
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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 88 08:38:32 EDT
From: Don Walker <walker@FLASH.BELLCORE.COM>
Subject: IJCAI Computers & Thought and Research Excellence Awards
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IJCAI AWARDS
THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence to a scientist who has
carried out a program of research of consistently high quality over a
period of years that has produced a number of substantial results. If
the research program has been carried out collaboratively the award may
be made jointly to the research team. The first recipient of this
award was John McCarthy in 1985.
The award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $1,000 plus
travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The researcher(s) will be
invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the
results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings.
Primarily, however, the award carries the honour of having one's work
selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in the
maturing science of Artificial Intelligence.
We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research
Excellence to be made at IJCAI-89 in Detroit. The accompanying note on
Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards provides the relevant details.
THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence by an outstanding young scientist
in the field of artificial intelligence. The Award carries with it a
certificate and the sum of $1,000 plus travel and subsistence expenses
for the IJCAI. The Lecture is presented one evening during the
Conference, and the public is invited to attend. The Lecturer is
invited to publish the Lecture in the conference proceedings. The
Lectureship was established with royalties received from the book
Computers and Thought, edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman; it is
currently supported by income from IJCAI funds.
Past recipients of this honour have been Terry Winograd (1971),
Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977),
David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983),
Hector Levesque (1985), and Johan de Kleer (1987).
Nominations are invited for The Computers and Thought Award to be made
at IJCAI-89 in Detroit. The note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI
Awards describes the nomination procedures to be followed.
SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS
Nominations for The Computers and Thought Award and The IJCAI Award for
Research Excellence are invited from everyone in the Artificial
Intelligence international community. The procedures are the same for
both awards.
There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom should
not be in the same institution as the nominee. The nominee must agree
to be nominated. There are no other restrictions on nominees,
nominators or seconders. The nominators should prepare a short
submission of less than 2,000 words, outlining the nominee's
qualifications with respect to the criteria for the particular award.
The award selection committee is the union of the Program, Conference
and Advisory Committees of the upcoming IJCAI and the Board of Trustees
of IJCAII, with nominees excluded. Nominations should be submitted
before December 1st, 1988 to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-89:
Wolfgang Bibel
IJCAI-89 Conference Chair
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, CANADA V6T 1W5
Tel. +1-604-228-6281
Net: bibel@ubc.csnet
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