1ate: Thu, 31 Jul 86 18:36:46 edt From: vtisr1!irlistrq To: fox Subject: IRList Digest V2 #32 Status: R IRList Digest Thursday, 31 July 1986 Volume 2 : Issue 32 Today's Topics: Query - Citations for papers on machine readable dictionaries - Availability of machine readable almanacs? Reply - Oxford concordance program Discussion - Differences between document files Announcement - Job at Cambridge - NRC and ARI Associates Program SIGIR - News from Chairman and Forum co-editor Raghavan - FROM THE EDITOR from next issue of SIGIR Forum - Table of Contents from next issue of SIGIR Forum References - ACM Trans. on Office Inf. Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 86 19:49:04 EDT From: Jim Davis Subject: Citations on dictionary papers Could we please have the full citations for the papers by Sherman and Peterson on Webster's 7th? I'd like to read them. [Note: this is referring back to my msg to nwc-143b.arpa@sefai in issue 31. References are: 1) Peterson, James L. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: A Computer-Readable File Format. TR-196, Univ. of Texas at Austin Dept. of Comp. Sci., May 1982. 2) Sherman, D. A New Computer Format for Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. In Computers and Humanities, 8:21-26, 1974. Maybe Jim will comment on this? - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Jul 86 06:45:18 edt From: LEWIS@cs.umass.edu Subject: query on almanacs I would appreciate any information people could give me on the availability of online almanacs or similar large bodies of broadranging statistical data. Public domain or cheap would be preferable, of course. Please send replies to me; if there is sufficient demand I will summarize for the digest. Thanks, David D. Lewis Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst "well, I used to think it was LEWIS@UMASS-CS and lately it's been LEWIS%cs.umass.edu@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA but maybe it's longer now" [Note: perhaps amsler@mouton.arpa might make some comments? - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: 28-JUL-1986 17:44:08 From: LOU%UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX1@AC.UK Subject: Oxford concordance program Oxford Concordance Program I have just seen the note from Jana Lamont on IRList on 4 July. [Note: see V2 #31 of 16 July 1986 - Ed] The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) is sold under licence from Oxford University Computing Service. At present there is a one-off price of 130 pounds sterling including documentation. OCP is is written in Fortran and is very easy to implement. It is running at over 230 institutions throughout the world on all major machine ranges. For more information and an order form, mail SUSAN@VAX2.OXFORD.AC.UK on BITNET or write to Oxford Concordance Program Oxford University Computing Service 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN UK or Phone 44-865-56721 and say that it is an enquiry about OCP Susan Hockey ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1986 01:24 EDT From: James H. Coombs Subject: diff marks [Note: see discussion in issues 24 and 31 - Ed] I don't know of anything available to locate only "significant" differences between document files. Presumably, such software would have to be table driven so that the user could control what the program treats as significant and what it ignores. The only programs that I know of are designed to treat all differences as significant. You might be able to "relax" these somewhat, however, by translating your files into SOUNDEX first--that at least would collapse most of the trivial spelling differences. You might also consider contacting Polytron Corporation. They have a version control system with a builtin comparator that appears to be very sophisticated. Their program is a little expensive (ca. $350), so I am not optimistic about their cooperating with you on a special project. It might be worth a phone call, however. "Significant" troubles me. Sounds as though you need a parser; perhaps a semantic interpreter as well. If you can settle for something like "at least five words in sequence have been changed," then the problem should be quite manageable. There are several good DIFF/COMPARE programs floating around for PCs, and I bet the authors would be happy to consult, sell source code, etc. 1) Polytron Corporation [product is PVCS] PO Box 787 Hillsboro, OR 97123 (503) 648-8595 2) Seven Valleys Software I have the source (in C) for their Compare and Update programs. It includes 'ignore case', 'ignore white space between words', 'resync on n lines'. If you have a programmer, this might be a good start. Let me know if you want me to send this. An ARC file would be most convenient, but I can send it as ASCII as well. (Yes, this is legal.) Author: Cheyenne C. Wills 12 West Locust St. Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17055 (717) 697-5198 Written for: Seven Valley's Software P.O. Box 99 Glen Rock, Pa 17327 3) I have C source for another by Charles Daney 19567 Dorchester Drive Saratoga, CA 95070 (408) 257-8440 4) Chris Dunford wrote an "HDIFF" for a prototypical source code control system. I don't have the source for this, but Dunford seems to be a good programmer and might be interested in discussing possibilities. Christopher J. Dunford 10057-2 Windstream Drive Columbia, Maryland 21044 CompuServe 76703,2002 Source STR211 It sounds as though you must have an interesting application in mind, but it is hard to tell just what you need. In any case, I would like to hear more about it. --Jim Acknowledge-To: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jul 86 16:38:23 BST From: William Clocksin Subject: Job The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, is looking for a faculty member to strengthen A.I. in the Laboratory. No very detailed specification is put upon candidates. We are looking for someone with a fairly down-to-earth approach who nevertheless has a proper grasp of theory, who will extend or complement the present range of interests. People in the Lab active in the area include Boguraev, Clocksin, Gordon, Sparck-Jones, and Pulman. The Lab is also active in functional programming, logic, and verification. Send a c.v., list of publications, and the names of not more than three referees to: Secretary of the Appointments Committee, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K. as soon as possible. For more information, contact William Clocksin (wfc@uk.ac.cam.cl or wfc%cam.cl@cs.ucl.arpa) ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jul 86 12:33:00 EDT From: "PSOTKA, JOSEPH" Subject: NRC Announcement for Associates Program The National Research Council (NRC) and the Army Research Institute (ARI) are entering an agreement to provide recent graduates and established scientists an opportunity to compete for research associate awards. The Associateship Program with ARI will focus on Intelligent Training Systems (ITS) research. Ideally the candidate would be interested in research on semantic memory, knowledge representation, qualitative modelling, student modelling, causal reasoning, or any of the other important research topics connected with ITS. There are two levels of competition: recent Ph.D.s (5 yrs and under ) and senior scientists (more than 5 yrs). Associates are expected to work some time at ARI. Tenure is for one to two years. Stipend varies from about $25,000 on up, to be negotiated. Official applications are to the NRC, but for more information, contact: Joseph Psotka, Ph.D. Army Research Institute 5001 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, Va 22333-5600 (202)274-5540 PSOTKA@ARI-HQ1 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST From: Vijay V. Raghavan Subject: Clem's request Dear Ed, Clem phoned me yesterday. He asked me to remind you to include in future IR digests information on SIGIR conf. 86, and conf. 87. ... With Regards, Vijay [Note: Clem [Yu] is chairman of ACM SIGIR and Vijay is one of the two co-editors of ACM SIGIR Forum; I am the other. Please note comments in the next msg about the SIGIR Conference for 1986. Further details will be given in next issue of IRList. We also hope that Don Kraft will send an electronic version of call for papers for 1987 conference to be included in a future IRList issue. - Ed] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST From: Vijay V. Raghavan Subject: FROM THE EDITOR - taken from next issue of SIGIR Forum The purpose of this note is two fold: first, I want to highlight some of the contents of this issue; secondly, I want to mention a few items of general interest that are not included elsewhere in the Forum. Starting on Page 2, there is the preliminary program of the 9th Annual International ACM-SIGIR Conference to be held in Pisa, Italy this Fall. Also included is the registration information. SIGIR members will NOT receive a separate mailing of this information. On pages 7 through 17, the first installment of summaries of papers given at the Workshop on Foundations of Adaptive Information processing are included. The workshop was sponsored by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research and the Computer Science Department of the University of Regina, and was held in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 10-11, 1985. The workshop followed the ACM/SIGIR annual international conference on research and development in information retrieval, held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada during the previous week. The remaining summaries will appear in future issues of the Forum. Another interesting item in this issue is the report by M. Lesk on the workshop held last November at the Waterloo's Center for the New OED. As is usually the case, abstracts of articles recently published in journals in the area are also included. The program highlights for ASIS annual conference (pp. 46-48) mentions the special sessions I have put together on behalf of SIGIR. Now for a few items of general interest: - The IR-list Digest, an electronic medium for communication between reseachers/practitioners in the field is alive and well. Ed Fox (address in back of front cover) is the co- ordinator of the IR-list Digest; - While there are enough items being submitted to make up issues of Forum, I always wonder how well received and interesting this publication is. I would like to see at least one or two technical papers in each issue. I need your help in this regard. I would also like to receive feedback and criticisms, which may help make the Forum attractive to most subscribers; - For the year 1986-87, I have accepted a faculty position at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Anyone wishing to correspond with me should use the address shown on the back of the front cover. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1986 12:06 CST From: Vijay V. Raghavan Subject: SIGIR FORUM Contents SPRING-SUMMER 1986 CONTENTS Volume 20 Issue 1-4 SIGIR NEWS >From the Forum Editor ............................... 1 Preliminary Program & Registration Information SIGIR-86 Conference in Pisa, Italy .............. 2 Summary of Papers Presented at University of Regina Workshop in June, 1985 (Part 1) Metric Data Models and Associated Search Strategies ............................... 7 Research into Fuzzy Extensions of Information Retrieval ........................... 12 A Unified Approach for Artificial Intelligence and Information Retrieval ....................... 14 A Concept-learning Information Retrieval System-Basic Ideas .............................. 16 Workshop Report Information in Data: using the Oxford English Dictionary on a Computer ................ 18 Book Review Information and Misinformation: An Investigation of the Notions of Information, Misinformation, Informing and Misinforming by C. J. Fox ......... 22 Abstracts of Articles in IR Area Selected from Recent Issues of Journals ......... 23 Selected from 1984 Issues of Journals ........... 30 Announcement Syracuse University School of Information Studies ......................................... 42 Call for Papers ACM SIGIR 1987 International Conference on Research and Development in IR ............... 43 GI Conference on Database Systems for Office Automation, Engineering and Scientific Applications .................................... 45 Program Highlights 1986 Annual Meeting of ASIS ..................... 46 FJCC '86 ........................................ inside of back cover ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jul 86 18:40:32 edt From: rba@LAFITE.BELLCORE.COM Subject: April 86 issue of ACM Trans. on Office Inf. Systems Papers appearing in: ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems April, 1986 Communications Design in Co-oP: A Group Decision Support System. T.X. Bui and M. Jarke A Society Model for Office Information Systems. C-S Ho, Y-C Hong, and T-S Hong BARQUE: A Browser for Relational Databases A. Motro A System for Generating Direct Manipulation Office Systems S. Hudson and R. King ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************