FOX@VTCS1.BITNET ("Edward A. Fox") (11/02/87)
IRList Digest Sunday, 1 November 1987 Volume 3 : Issue 37
Today's Topics:
Reply - Personal filing systems (offer to help)
Query - Software to assist scholars of ancient texts
- Relational DB toolkits with source code
- Network re social systems science
- How types of knowledge are classified (esp. in organizations)
- Neural networks and IR
- Hypertext discussion group
Discussion - Literature on browsing
Announcement - Conference on the Uses of Large Text Databases
Call for Papers - CAIS (linking mind and machine)
News addresses are
Internet or CSNET: fox@vtcs1.cs.vt.edu
BITNET: fox@vtcs1.bitnet
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Date: Mon 5 Oct 87 10:05:39-PDT
From: Ken Laws <LAWS@IU.AI.SRI.COM>
Subject: Research on Filing Systems [See V3 #36 - Ed]
Cc: IIN8PXB%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU, STEIN@WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
A very interesting IRList issue. While I have no expertise in the
theory of personal filing systems, I have always been fascinated by
taxonomies and other means of organizing knowledge. I would be happy
to help out if someone wants to study the evolution (or current
structure) of the machine vision field. (This includes digital image
processing, analysis, and understanding, with interfaces to perceptual
psychology, neurophysiology, computational geometry, remote sensing,
geology, geodessy, computer graphics, computer science, mathematics,
and many other areas. I can't claim to understand it all -- indeed,
computer vision is itself not well understood -- but I am familiar
with much of the literature.)
-- Ken Laws
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1987 18:52 CST
From: Robin C. Cover <ZRCC1001@SMUVM1>
Subject: texts of ancient languages
Professor Fox: I am a professor of semitics and am interested in full-text
retrieval software which can be used to concord/index/search machine-readable
texts of ancient languages. I am also interested in various aspects of mechano-
linguistics: statistical thematics, content analysis, disambiguation, etc.
I would appreciate being added to the mail list for (BITNET) IRList -- in hopes
of making contact with other scholars interested in study of ancient texts.
Many thanks! Professor Robin C. Cover; 3909 Swiss Avenue; Dallas, TX 75204
214/824-3094.
Acknowledge-To: Robin C. Cover <ZRCC1001@SMUVM1.bitnet>
PS. I would like to be added to your IRList. The topics given in the
ARPANET SIGLIST sound like it's the SIG most centrally focused on my
area of interest. I am helping supervise a hypertext project, and we
need advice at critical junctures from people in AI, linguistics and
similar sub-disciplines.
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 87 10:58:10 PDT
From: Mark Richer <RICHER@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: Relational DB toolkits
I'm interested in finding RDB toolkits with full source provided for
programmers. Multi-user capabilities would be very nice. I should say
I'd like source in C. I want to use this on a Macintosh so it has to be
possible to port.
I know of one toolkit for the Mac called inside out which comes as a
linkable object library, but they won't sell source and I don't know
anything about the product (do you?). I'm not even sure they have anything
execpt the MPW Pascal version shipping, but they claim they will support a
host of C and Pascal compilers on the Mac.
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Mark
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 87 19:40 EST
From: STEIN@wharton.upenn.edu
Subject: network for those interested in social systems sciences
. . .
Finally, I wonder if I can create a network for that subset of the
irlist (or other lists) who are interested in research in
social systems sciences coming from the same tradition as my
graduate group (exlained in previous memo)--please advise.
. . .
Sincerely Yours,
Eric W. Stein
Social Systems Sciences
The Wharton School
U. Penn
Stein@Wharton.upenn.edu
[Note: I certainly have no objects to others setting up discussion
groups, but am happy to include any subscribers and news in this area
if it comes my way. Eric is referring to his msg in V3 #36 in case
you have forgotten - sorry for not getting this follow up msg out
sooner. - Ed]
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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 87 21:26 EST
From: STEIN@wharton.upenn.edu
Subject: knowledge classification
. . .
I'm interested in how types of knowledge are classified; e.g. declarative,
procedural, implicit, tacit, etc. Does anyone know the seminal works
in this area? Most current research, especially in AI and in the
expert database systems literature? I'm interested in the types of
knowledge structures that exist in organizations.
yours,
Eric Stein
U. Penn
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 87 12:12:46 PST
From: richardp@violet.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Neural networks and IR
Richard Petersen
School of Library and Information Studies
2150 Kittredge St.
Berkeley, CA. 94720
(415) 642-1464
1210 Paru St. #E
Alameda, CA. 94501
(415) 523-9571
richardp@violet.bitnet
Dear Professor Fox,
I am currently a doctoral student at the School of
Library and Information Studies at U.C. Berkeley. My field
of research is the application of Neural Networks (also know
as Parallel Distributed Processing or Connectionism) to the
problem of Information retrieval. I would be interested in
contacting and corresponding with anyone who is currently
working on similar kinds of applications.
I have also heard that you are currently compiling a
collection of test data bases used for information retrieval
studies. I would be extremely interested in the possibility
of acquiring such test retrieval systems for my research. Of
particular interest are those retrieval data bases used by
Salton and Spark-Jones; Cranfield 400, Smart, and Inspec.
[Note: I plan on having a number on a CDROM. I encourage IR researchers,
especially those in Europe who have collections that I do not have, to
contact me so NPL, Cranfield, etc. can be included. - Ed]
Such a retrieval data bases may serve as a comparative
benchmark of a neural networks effectiveness in terms of
other information retrieval systems. Neural Networks are
characterized by binary vector and matrix representations
similar to that used in document-term matrices. The term
based binary representation of documents may be formulated
as a distributed representation (parallel distributed pro-
cessing) used in neural. networks. Such a representation
could be used in classification and feedback processes
employed in neural networks. My particular area of study is
in the application of relevance feedback mechanisms to ther-
modynamic PDP models such as the Boltzman machine and Har-
mony theory.
I would appreciate any help you could give me, espe-
cially in regard to the acquisition test retrieval systems.
I would also greatly appreciate your evaluation on the use
of such retrieval data bases in the application of Neural
Networks to the Information Retrieval problem.
Sincerely,
Richard Petersen
richardp@violet.bitnet
[Note: I will make an announcement regarding the CDROM with IR
collections when dates and prices are known. I suggest you contact
Bruce Croft at croft%cs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net regarding your work
since there may be a conference in part relating to this. - Ed]
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Date: Mon Aug 31 16:35:16 1987
From: omepd!littlei!foobar!sdp!sdp@seismo.CSS.GOV
Subject: Hypertext
Hello,
. . .
I'm looking for a program called HYPE. It's a small hypertext editor written
in Turbo Pascal.
Anyone know of any other interesting PD hypertext code?
Is there a hypertext mailing list or discussion group anywhere on the net?
Is there demand for one?
Thanks,
Scott Peterson
OMO Software
Intel, Hillsboro OR
sdp.hf.intel.com!sdp
omepd.intel.com!littlei!foobar!sdp!sdp
[Note: I found this msg in AIList Digest and wonder if there were any
replies about the discussion group. Hypertext certainly seems to me
to be a topic that should be covered by IRList -- I welcome any news
and discussion. See the following message, for example. I certainly
hope that we get a number of reports from people going to Hypertext '87,
which will occur very shortly. - Ed]
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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 87 13:11:23 CST
From: JEFF HUESTIS <C81350JH@WUVMD>
Subject: QUICK BIB ON BROWSING
I've tapped into an interesting part of the database literature lately,
starting from citation number 29 in Salton's selected abstracts in
SIGIR Forum 21(3-4). The concept of browsing is critical for anyone
trying to model user behavior, and the small body of database browsing
literature seems to offer some useful terminology and ways of looking
at things that are applicable to IR. There doesn't seem to be a whole
lot out there, so it may be useful to someone if I list a couple of
representative citations, aside from the above. If this is old hat
to anyone, I'd appreciate contributions.
Larson, James A. "A visual approach to browsing in a database
environment," Computer, 19(6):62-71; June 1986.
^^^^^^^^
Motro, Amihai. "Browsing in a loosely structured database,"
SIGMOD Record, 14(2):197-207; 1984 (Proceedings of the SIGMOD
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
Annual Meeting, Boston, June 18-21, 1984, edited by B. Yormark).
A common thread through all this stuff seems to be the acknowledgement
that not every user knows what he wants, but he knows what he likes
when he sees it. Adaptive search strategies, relevance feedback,
query refinement, etc.
The ideal IR system should work from the initial query: "Uh..."
[Note: In some ways, the concept of hypertext is simply that of
intelligent, personal or aided, browsing. I feel that there should
not be a split into camps of people working on hypertext and others
working on IR -- we will all benefit if hypertext capabilities are
included in those IR systems where such is possible. After all, V.
Bush's memex inspired both kinds of effort. - Ed]
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 87 10:00:58 EDT
From: Maureen Searle <msearle@watsol.waterloo.netnorth>
Subject: Conference reminder
Would it be possible to include this announcement in the IRList DIGEST?
Thank you.
Maureen Searle
Centre for the New OED
University of Waterloo
msearle%watsol@waterloo.csnet
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University of Waterloo, Centre for the New OED
Waterloo, Ontario
Conference on the Uses of Large Text Databases
November 9th and 19th, 1987
Deadline for registration is October 15. Because of a rotating Canadian
postal strike, registrations can be made by phone (519) 885-1211 ext 6183
or by electronic mail to mjfehlner%watsol@waterloo.csnet.
Conference fees are:-
Registration $90.00 (CDN) $68.00 (U.S.)
Proceedings $20.00 (CDN) $15.00 (U.S.)
Mon. evening Dinner $30.00 (CDN) $23.00 (U.S.)
Recommended hotel is the Walper Terrace Hotel, 1 King Street West,
Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 2Z9.
Rates are $54.00 (CDN)/night (single) and $60.00 (CDN)/night (double).
Reservations should be made directly with the hotel by calling (519) 745-4321,
specifying that you are attending the conference.
Transportation from Toronto Airport to Kitchener is available from
Airways Transit at a special conference rate of $17.00 (one way).
Reservations can be made by calling (519) 578-0110, again specifying
that you are attending the conference.
If you have further questions please contact the Centre at the above
number or via electronic mail.
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Date: 21 Oct 87 20:04 -0300
From: Michael Shepherd <shepherd@cs.dal.cdn>
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS -- Connexions: linking mind and machine
. . .
CALL FOR PAPERS
Connexions: linking mind and machine
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
The 16th annual conference of the Canadian Association for
Information Science will convene at the University of Ottawa,
in Ottawa, Canada, May 12 - 14, 1988.
This conference will interest information professionals,
data processing and computer specialists, engineers and others
involved in documentation, communications and computer science.
Previously unpublished papers are solicited. Authors are invited
to submit papers for presentation in either English or French.
Topics may include, but will not be limited to,the following:
- the transfer of information through the information chain
from source to supplier to consumer
- new hardware technologies and software systems and how
they connect to existing systems and services
- new ways of organizing knowledge to expedite its transfer,
such as artificial intelligence and expert systems
- ergonomics and the studies of the interactions between
information systems and users
- the study of information science and its links to other
disciplines as diverse as psychology, linguistics,
communications, computer science and engineering
Three copies of a 500 to 1000 word abstract with the author's full
name, affiliation, address and telephone should be submitted to:
Prof. Charles Meadow
c/o CAIS 88
P.O. Box 38, Station B
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
K1P 6C3
Selected papers will be published in the Canadian Journal of
Information Science.
IMPORTANT DATES: 15 Nov - Abstract Due
30 Dec - Papers Due
For further information regarding the conference, please contact:
David Holmes at the address above, or by telephone: (613)-564-4074
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