========================================================================= Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 16:58:00 EDT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: David Lewis Subject: CFP : SDAIR95 Call for Papers Fourth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval (SDAIR '95) April 24-26, 1995 Desert Inn Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada Conference Chair: Donna Harman National Institute of Standards and Technology SCOPE The purpose of this symposium is to present the results of current research and to stimulate the exchange of ideas in the general field of Document Understanding. Papers on all aspects of document analysis and information retrieval are solicited, with particular emphasis on: Document Analysis Multilingual OCR Language identification Multilingual character sets Domain specific dictionaries / lexicons Logical structure recognition Recognition of tables and equations Recognition of maps and mechanical drawings Information Retrieval Full-text retrieval Retrieval from structured documents Text categorization Evaluation of IR systems Image and multimedia retrieval Language-specific influences on retrieval Text representation The two themes to be highlighted at this year's symposium are the intersection of document analysis and information retrieval, and the ramifications of multilingual data in both fields. SUBMISSIONS Please send seven copies of complete papers, with authors name, address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address to the appropriate Program Chair: Larry Spitz, Chair (Doc. Analysis) or David D. Lewis, Chair (Info. Ret.) c/o Information Science Research Institute University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 454021 Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 The papers should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages or 5,000 words. Papers which have already appeared in journals or published conference proceedings should not be submitted. Both camera ready and machine readable copies of the accepted papers will be required. The proceedings will be available at the conference. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE Papers Due October 1, 1994 Notification To Authors December 1, 1994 Camera Ready Copy February 1, 1995 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Document Analysis ----------------- Larry SPITZ, Fuji Xerox (chair) Henry BAIRD, AT&T Bell Labs Andreas DENGEL, DFKI Hiromichi FUJISAWA, Hitachi Jonathon HULL, SUNY Buffalo Junichi KANAI, UNLV Juergen SCHUERMANN, Daimler Benz Suzanne TAYLOR, Unisys Karl TOMBRE, INRIA Information Retrieval --------------------- David LEWIS, AT&T Bell Labs (chair) Christopher BUCKLEY, Cornell Kenneth CHURCH, AT&T Bell Labs Robert KORFHAGE, U. Pittsburgh Fausto RABITTI, CNR-IEI Kazem TAGHVA, UNLV TOKUNAGA Takenobu, Tokyo Inst. Tech. Howard TURTLE, West Publishing Peter WILLETT, U. Sheffield Ross WILKINSON, RMIT ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 16:39:15 +1000 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: DWIGHT WALKER Subject: On-Line Help for MS Windows applications I attended a 2 day course 1-2 August in Sydney run by 'Structured Writing and Training' (61-2-2626900) on writing on-line help for MS Windows software. It was aimed at technical writers for software projects. Technical documentation is organised using the Windows HELP facility to enable the user to get appropriate help while using the software. There is a product called HDK2 from Virtual Media Technology, Neutral Bay, NSW, (61-2-9592355) that automates a lot of the production of the help document. It requires Word for Windows and the help compiler. We were up to the 'SEARCH' button in on-line help. There was reference to this being like a back-of-the-book index. This seemed like a good point to pass on in this electronic age. I am interested in possibly doing some technical writing but the skills of indexing come in handy when it comes to information retrieval. The usual comment from people who use on-line help is that they can't find the topic they are after. Here is an opportunity to direct skills mainly oriented at paper-based documentation to electronic media. There are also the extra non-linear ways of browsing the information on-line: hypertext links, browsing backwards and forwards in a stream of topics. You have to arrange the system so that the user doesn't get lost in hyperspace! In passing, the Australian Bureau of Statistics produced their catalogue of products as a Windows HELP file. You navigate through it using the table of contents, topics (searches) or hypertext links to related topics. You can add bookmarks and leave annotations all electronically by the HELP system. Cheers, Dwight Walker dwalker@ozemail.com.au Sydney, Australia ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 18:09:27 18000 Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Hazel Blumberg-McKee Subject: FAQ of August 5, 1994 Just wanted to send along a note about the USDA indexing course that was mentioned in the recent FAQ. There are two correspondence courses available: a beginning indexing course, "Basic Indexing," which now costs $281; and a more advanced indexing course, "Applied Indexing," which now costs $275. Both correspondence courses include all materials. In the USDA Graduate School's address, insert "Ag Box 9911" after "Correspondence Program." You can call the USDA Correspondence Program at (202) 720-7123. The TDD number is (202) 690-1516. Many thanks to Nancy Etheridge, who pointed out the changes in price to me. -- Hazel Blumberg-McKee (hazelcb@freenet.tlh.fl.us) "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."--H. G. Wells ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 21:58:37 EDT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: BMcElroy01@AOL.COM Subject: Re: ZyIndex vs. Folio Two additional options to consider, if distributing text is your main concern, are Replica and Common Ground. Replica is from Farallon and Common Ground is from No Hands. Both are "no frills" (or limited frills), allow copy to clipboard, printing, search etc. I've used both and prefer Replica. The viewers can be distributed (I believe in both cases) for free - if you are not a commercial distributer of information. In the case of Replica, at least (I don't know for Common Ground) the rights to distribute commercially come very cheap. Check w/ Farallon, but it's something like $200/year per platform (Windows or Mac) for up to x of viewers (a few hundred?) and a quarter each after that. It seems like a really good deal to me. :::Brian McElroy ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 13:26:22 EST Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jean Bailey I'd like some information about how to subscribe. Thanks Jean Bailey Conservation Unit Fisher Library FO3 University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Tel: +61 2 692 4691 Fax: +61 2 692 2890 e-mail: jbailey@extro.ucc.su.oz.au