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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ 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.] ------------------------------ From: Vic Tisone 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------ VENDER ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION SPECIFICATIONS ------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------ 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.] ------------------------------ From: BITNET%"JZEM@MARIST" 9-JUL-1988 15:55 To: FOXEA Subj: Do online costs effect search style? Received: From MARIST(MAILER) by VTCC1 with Jnet id 6576 for FOXEA@VTCC1; Sat, 9 Jul 88 15:55 EDT Received: by MARIST (Mailer X1.25) id 6575; Sat, 09 Jul 88 15:55:25 EDT Date: Sat, 09 Jul 88 15:46:45 EDT From: "William J. Joel" 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.] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Jun 88 09:05 From: "H.Ludwig Hausen +49-2241142426" To: "Prof.Dr. Edward A. Fox" 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) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jul 88 10:41:22 CDT From: "Dr. Raghavan" 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 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jun 88 08:38:32 EDT From: Don Walker 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 ------------------------------ END OF IRList Digest ********************