FOXEA@VTVAX3.BITNET (03/09/88)
IRList Digest Tuesday, 8 March 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
Announcement - Extracts from SIGIR FORUM now in press
- NSF awards abstracts may be searchable through DIALOG
- HyperCard stack version of report on Hypertext 87
- Common LISP / INGRES interface available
- Course on hypertext
Abstract - Presentation at SIGIR meeting at Microsoft CDROM Conference
News addresses are
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BITNET: foxea@vtvax3.bitnet
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 88 11:12:08 CST
From: "Dr. Raghavan" <raghavan%raghavansun%usl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET>
Subject: Excerpts from ACM SIGIR Forum that is in press
Fall86/Winter87 CONTENTS Volume 22, Number 1-2
SIGIR NEWS
Chairman's Message ...................................1
News from the Vice Chairman...........................2
Institutional Sponsorship Program.....................3
ARTICLES
Comment on Some Recent Comments on Information Retrieval, C.T.Meadow5
Toward Hypertext Publishing, Robin Hanson.............9
REPORT ON SIGIR SESSIONS
At the ASIS 50th Anniversary Conference..............27
At the Microsoft's Third International CD ROM Conference28
ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES
Selected from Recent Issues of Journals..............29
Selected from Dissertation Abstracts International...38
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Symposium on New-Technique-Application in Library52
11th World Computer Congress - IFIP'89...............54
OOPSLA-88............................................56
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
RIAO-88: User-oriented Content-Based Text and Image Handling57
COIS-88: Office Information Systems.................63
International Conference on Extending Database Technology65
BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Forum Editor.....................................68
SIGIR Conference-1989................................68
ACM Conference on Document Processing................68
Errata...............................................68
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BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Forum Editor: Ed Fox has stepped down from his role as co-editor of this
publication. Dr. Bill Frakes of AT & T Bell Laboratories has kindly agreed to
take over the responsibilities. His addresses are given on the inside front
cover. Submissions to the Forum, in the future, can be sent to Bill Frakes or
Vijay Raghavan. Ed Fox will continue to handle the IRlist Digest, our elec-
tronic newsletter. Thanks, Ed, for your valuable contributions.
SIGIR Conference-1989: The 12th ACM international SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in IR will be in Boston at the Marriott Cambridge
between June 26-28, 1989. The General Chairman is Bruce Croft and the Program
Chairman is Nick Belkin.
ACM Conference on Document Processing Systems: This Conference is being co-
sponsored by SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI and SIGOIS and will be in Santa Fe, NM between
Dec. 5-9, 1988. The Conference is under the general chairmanship of Rick
Beach. For further information please contact Ann Solem, Los Alamos National
Laboratory at (505)667-5460.
Errata: In the last issue of the SIGIR Forum (Vol. 21, no., 3-4), the table
of contents from the SIGIR-87 Conference was reproduced, which resulted in
perpetuation of all original errors. On page 47, the paper by Bruce Croft
should have Bruce Croft and David D. Lewis as authors and the title should be
``An Approach To Natural Language Processing for Document Retrieval.''
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INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORSHIPSHIP PROGRAM
An Invitation to Sponsor ACM-SIGIR...
SIGIR is a special interest group within ACM devoted to the advancement
of activities in the subject area of information retrieval. For many years
now, SIGIR members have been active in the investigation and the exchange of
ideas pertaining to the theory, methodology and applications of information
retrieval. The efforts of this group have helped provide the necessary
encouragement and the impetus for the recent surge of research and developmen-
tal initiatives in this area.
The following list gives an indication of the topics that are of interest
to the membership.
retrieval system modeling combining information retrieval
evaluation techniques in IR and database management systems
hybrid/extended Boolean models retrieval in office environments
user interfaces image retrieval
natural language processing indexing and thesaurus constructions
knowledge representation multimedia retrieval
hardware architectures for IR distributed processing in IR
storage and search ret. system efficiency & performance
techniques expert systems for ``intelligent'' IR
hypertext systems video and optical disks
graphic and windowing techniques
The international recognition and active involvement of SIGIR members is
evidenced by activities such as the following:
+ The SIGIR sponsored annual conference on Research and Development in Infor-
mation Retrieval is held, alternatively, in North America and Europe;
+ SIGIR organizes interdisciplinary workshops in cooperation with other spe-
cial interest groups (e.g. SIGDOC, SIGMOD);
+ SIGIR Forum, the newsletter of the group is published regularly. The forum
serves as an informal medium for the dissemination of information and opinions
on matters of interest to the membership; there is also an electronic digest
that provides members a medium for rapid information exchange.
+ Special sessions are organized by SIGIR members at the annual meetings of
larger organizations such as the ASIS and the ACM.
It is an exciting time now in the history of the SIGIR.
SIGIR has a roster of about 2000 professionals, researchers and institu-
tional members who have an interest in the area. Until now the community has
been well served. But with increasing costs and overhead charges by headquar-
ters, the financial ability to serve this community is diminishing, in spite
of a the recent increase in membership dues.
Consequently, we are introducing an Institutional Sponsorship Program.
The idea is to seek financial support from corporations, government agencies
and other organizations that have a strong interest in IR related activities.
The proposed amount of support is $500 per year. The benefit to the institu-
tion will be three fold:
(i) The publicity received by having the sponsor's name identified in ____
issue of the Forum. Furthermore, new New institutional sponsors will be
recognized with a one page description of their key activities, using a
standard format.
(ii) Two employees designated by the sponsor will be automatically members of
SIGIR and will receive all communications and publications of the group.
(iii)
The institutional representatives attending the SIGIR sponsored confer-
ences will be able to register at the reduced rates offered to ACM
members.
We the officers of SIGIR invite you cordially to consider this option and
support or solicit support for SIGIR through this program. For more details
contact Bruce Croft (see inside front cover).
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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 88 13:53:28 -0500
From: "Joseph G. Deken" <jdeken@note.nsf.gov>
Subject: award abstracts
I saw the following in one of our internal newsletters, and
I thought it might interest you:
In January of this year, OIS submitted foundation-wide award abstracts
to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for inclusion in the
FEDRIP database... NSF hopes that abstracts will be added to FEDRIP and
be available through DIALOG by late March.
This may be useful for quick forms of some of the award information
we talked about earlier.
JGD
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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 88 15:22:49 DNT
From: Jakob Nielsen Tech Univ of Denmark <DATJN@NEUVM1>
Subject: HyperCard stack with report on HyperTEXT workshop available
To: IRList <FOXEA@VTVAX3>
My report on the recent HyperTEXT workshop is now available
in a hypertext version in the form of a 400 K HyperCard stack.
To read it, you will need a Macintosh and APple's HyperCard program.
To get a copy of this electronic document please send two
double sided Macintosh diskettes to the following address. One diskette
will be returned to you with the hypertext report and the other will
be kept to cover postage and hanling.
Jakob Nielsen
Technical University of Denmark
Dept. of Computer Science
Building 344
DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen
Denmark
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 88 16:08:50 PST
From: "Jeffrey C. Sedayao" <sedayao%postgres.Berkeley.EDU@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: Common LISP / INGRES interface available
Announcing the availability of CLING, Common LISP INGRES interface.
CLING is a Common LISP package that permits a user to manipulate and
query an RTI Ingres database. Databases can be created and destroyed,
and tuples appended and retrieved, all with Common LISP functions.
Versions for Sun Common LISP (Lucid) and Franz Allegro Common LISP
are available.
CLING cam be retrieved via anonymous FTP from postgres.berkeley.edu.
Jeff Sedayao
...ucbvax!postgres!sedayao
sedayao@postgres.berkeley.edu
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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 88 16:55:13 EST
From: Ben Shneiderman <ben@mimsy.umd.edu>
Subject: Hypertext Course
. . .
The University of Maryland University College
Center for Professional Development
presents
HYPERTEXT: A NEW KNOWLEDGE TOOL
A 3-day course taught by:
Ben Shneiderman, Charles Kreitzberg, Gary Marchionini, and Janis Morariu
May 9-11, 1988
Overview
This course presents hypertext systems and concepts in order to facilitate the
development of hypertext applications. Participants will learn and use avail-
able systems, understand implementation problems, recognize which applications
are suitable, and design knowledge to fit hypertext environments.
Course Outline
Monday, May 9
Ben Shneiderman, Introduction to Hypertext and Course Overview
Monday and Tuesday, May 9-11
Charles Kreitzberg, Hypertext for Business Applications
Tuesday, May 10
Gary Marchionini, Hypertext for Information Retrieval
Wednesday, May 11
Janis Morariu, Hypertext in Education and Training
Ben Shneiderman, Discussion and Course Conclusion
Who Should Attend
Software implementers, hypertext database designers, documentation specialists,
training developers and managers, database developers, designers of diagnostic
problem solving systems, corporate information officers, and user services
staff, should benefit from this course.
Selected Topics
o Review history of paper documents and hypertext systems to understand the
relative advantages of paper and electronic information systems.
o Define hypertext and recognize when it might be appropriate.
o Identify the varieties of hypertext systems and study exisiting commercial
and research systems (HyperCard, Hyperties, Notecards, Guide, Hypermedia,
etc.)
o Discuss key system features (traversal mechanisms, database design,
videodisk, string search, indexing, etc.)
o Determine how to structure knowledge to suit hypertext and understand the
differences between linear and network text.
o Learn how to evaluate hypertext systems (user interface for browsing,
authoring tools, speed, data storage).
o Integrate hypertext with existing systems (automatic loading of existing
data, importing/exporting files, printing).
Faculty
Ben Shneiderman, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of
Computer Science, head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and
member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at The University
of Maryland.
Charles Kreitzberg, Ph.D., is president of Cognetics Corporation, a software
development firm specializing in the design of human-centered products.
Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the College of Library
and Information Services at The University of Maryland.
Janis Morariu, Ph.D., is assistant director of the Center for Instructional
Development and Evaluation at The University of Maryland University College.
More Information and Registration
This course is presented by The University of Maryland University College,
Center for Professional Development. The location is the Center of Adult
Education, University Blvd. at Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland.
Classes are held from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm daily. A special IBM/PC lab
session is scheduled Monday May 9.
The course brochure contains more information (description, daily outline,
faculty background, registration form). To obtain a copy, please call
301/985-7195, or to register 301/985-7157. For content information, please
contact Janis Morariu at 301/985-7897.
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 88 12:50:14 EST
From: Daniel Ford <watmath!watdragon!daford@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: RE: Seattle & SIGIR
Hi, below is the abstract and biographical sketch you requested.
... Dan
In my presentation I will briefly present results from a paper to appear at
the SIGMOD '88 conference this June in Chicago. I will outline a model of
retrieval from CLV optical disks and then discuss exact and approximate
results for their expected retrieval performance for a variety of
situations. Our analysis takes into account disks with and without a
mirror in the access mechanism, small objects completely placed within
block boundaries, placement that allows block boundary crossing, as well as
very large objects (such as documents). I will also describe some
fundamental implications of physical data base design for data bases stored
on CLV optical disks.
Biographical sketch
Daniel Ford is currently a Ph.D. graduate student in the Office Automation
Lab in the Department of Computer science at the University of Waterloo in
Ontario, Canada. He has a B.Sc. (Hons.) (1984) degree from Simon Fraser
University and a M.Sc. (1985) degree from the University of British
Columbia, both in Computer Science. His areas of interest are performance
analysis of optical disk systems and multimedia databases. Mr. Ford has
worked in both North America and Europe and is a member of the ACM.
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