From: SMTP%"LISTSERV@BINGVMB.cc.binghamton.edu" 23-APR-1996 08:26:22.24 To: CIRJA02 CC: Subj: File: "INDEX-L LOG9603B" Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:04:47 +0000 From: BITNET list server at BINGVMB (1.8a) Subject: File: "INDEX-L LOG9603B" To: CIRJA02@GSVMS1.CC.GASOU.EDU ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:33:52 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Sean O'Connell Subject: Pagemaker ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Do any of you use Pagemaker for indexing? If so can you share some advice about the program? Thanks. -- Sean O ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:34:26 ECT Reply-To: jsampson@cix.compulink.co.uk Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: John Sampson Subject: Re: Cindex and WordPerfect ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- If you have the index viewed sorted and formatted give the command PRINT/FILE=XXX.WP5 where XXX is the file root - a screen comes up with two columns of settings. The ones on the right default to 'n' but should be set to 'y' to get a formatted WordPerfect file. Once one enters these settings it should produce a WordPerfect file. This works for me but maybe your problem is different. As the file is a WordPerfect 5 file, later versions of WordPerfect will convert it on loading. _John Sampson_ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:34:39 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "David M. Greenbaum" Subject: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I've been looking into the possibility of moonlighting as an indexer. To that end,, I've read Mulvany's book and the INDEX FAQ at the ASI homepage, and have been lurking on the listserv for about a month. Since quitting the day job is not a possibility, the time I would have for doing an indexing job would necessarily be in the evenings and on weekends. My question is, how long does an indexer have, once proofs are received, to compile an index? The only indication I been able to uncover is the quote from the Chicago Manual that says the time pressure is "unreasonable." I've seen nothing that discusses the days/weeks that an indexer may have to complete a job. So I'm asking the experts - what's the turn-around time? David M. Greenbaum greenbau@law.acast.nova.edu ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:36:50 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: JanCW@aol.com Subject: Interesting web page index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- For those of you with web access, check out Adobe's web page index, at www.adobe.com. For some reason, they have chosen to do a keyword-in-context index on the Web. I cannot believe how much work must have gone into it, and I would love to hear other people's opinions on whether it is useful or not. I had to use it, and thank goodness what I needed to look up started with ADO, not TEC, or worse yet ZZZ. Looking forward to interesting opinions. Jan Wright ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:37:56 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Presley, Paula" Subject: URL for presses ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The addresses of the member presses of American Association of University Presses is at http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/0/central/members.html (for those of you looking for names/addresses of presses to whom you would like to address some promotional info. ________________________________________________________________ Paula Presley FAX 816-785-4181 VOICE 816-785-4525 Associate Editor, Thomas Jefferson University Press Northeast Missouri State Univ. (Truman State University July 96) McClain Hall 111-L, 100 E. Normal St., Kirksville, MO 63501-4221 Internet: ppresley%nemomus@nemostate.edu ________________________________________________________________ ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 11:39:13 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "stephen F. Chupack" Subject: INDEXING PHOTOS ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am interested in getting the name of programs people have found useful for indexing photographic images, where to obtain them, strengths and weaknesses, etc. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:57:48 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: JPerlman@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David, You ask a good question. Publishers usually want a 2-3 week turnaround on their projects. Some will come to you with emergencies of a week (or even less!). Rarely, very rarely, will you have more than 3 weeks. You have to understand that the indexing process is at the end of the publishing process. It's the very last thing to be done. Only thing left after you do your index is to get it into type, proof it, and run the entire press run for the book. The book has probably been delayed time and time again, as editor, author, printer, etc, all had delays and ate up some of the time allowed for the "publishing process." By the time they get to the index/indexer, they're in a tearing rush -- the marketing has been done, the publication date set, etc .... and you are the one they're waiting for. Ergo the short timeframe. As an aside, I am a fulltime indexer, after many years as a part-timer with another (fulltime) job. It's not easy, and you have to love it, because it's a late-night enterprise and demanding of a clear mind at that. I built my business up to the point where I was able to quit and do it fulltime and support my end of our financial life. I was literally working night and day by that time. Not an easy thing to undertake, yet many do it. Hope this helps present some of the realities of life for an indexer. Janet Perlman Southwest Indexing ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:58:00 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Isawriter@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David.... Most of the editors I have worked with seem to feel that one week is sufficient to index 200 pages. Or perhaps that is what I feel comfortable with and I nudge them in that direction. I have had the occasional project in which I am given much longer than that. I think the overriding factor is that while the index is not an afterthought, by the time the editor is ready for the index, everyone is getting impatient to see the project finished. Often, the author is proofreading the page proofs at the same time, and when that task is done, it is time to begin wrapping things up. Interesting question, and I am anxious to see others' thoughts on it. Craig Brown The Last Word ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:58:09 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: JanCW@aol.com Subject: Re: Pagemaker ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In a message dated 96-03-11 11:35:53 EST, soconnel@leo.vsla.edu (Sean O'Connell) writes: >Do any of you use Pagemaker for indexing? If so can you share >some advice about the program? >Thanks. >-- >Sean O I have done PageMaker indexing. Feel free to ask me some specifics, but in general, here's some tips: 1. Make sure your machine for indexing is set up exactly to match the production machine that laid out the pages. This includes installing the same fonts and targeting the same printer. Otherwise you could have a lot of problems with line ends changing. 2. Get a printout of the pages rather than attempting to work from the screen. You will occasionally need to actually count the number of paragraphs included in a page range. You work in Story Editor, which does not show you actual page breaks, so you need the printouts. 3. Book the files if there are multiple files. See the user's manual for instructions on booking. Do not let PageMaker handle the repagination unless you have talked to the production person and they think it is okay. Ask them to help you set up the booking if it is confusing. 4. Place your markers either at the end or beginnings of paragraphs. That way, if there are any rewrites, it will be easier for people to work around them. Don't put more than 100 markers on a page. (I once had an editor insist on about 60 entries for one page, and the file refused to work after I had put them in. There is justice in this world.) 5. Familiarize yourself with the styles used in the piece so that you can use the page ranging "to next change of style" or "to next level head" effectively. Familiarize yourself with how the pages have been laid-out: If you have multiple stories on a page, you will have to enter and leave story editor to index each one. Having the printouts will help here. 6. Be aware as you add more and more entries that things will get painfully slow. Dialog boxes take forever to appear. 7. You can work chapter by chapter through the book, but you will need all the files for editing and compiling. 8. Experiment with the see referencing until you figure it out. It is not intuitive. 9. Divide your editing pass into two sections: one in which you edit existing entries through the dialog boxes, and one in which you go back and add all new entries to the actual chapters. 10. PageMaker will not bold or italicize words within an entry, other than see and see also, so you can use **** or something to mark entries that will need manual formatting. 11. You might want to consider actually writing the index in CINDEX or MACREX, doing all your editing, making it really good, and then doing a page order sort and embedding the entries into PageMaker. This allows you to write it quickly, and keeps the PageMaker files free for production people to work with up till the last minute. You can even send your index to press, and then embed, which gives you much more time with the files when it is not so crazy. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:58:22 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: TRIP10@aol.com Subject: "VOCABULARY MANAGEMENT" ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On April 25th, 1996, the National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services is offering one of their most successful one-day events ever... VOCABULARY MANAGEMENT presented by Dr. Jessica Milstead - Principal of The JELEM Company Dr. Jessica Milstead is a recognized indexing expert. Her experience includes the development of a thesaurus system which is expected to contain 20 to 40 million documents within this decade. Whether you're an expert or intermediate indexer who wants to refine his or her skills, this is an event you can't afford to miss! *********************************** Are you searching for in-depth information on: vocabulary control; morphology of descriptors; relationships between vocabulary terms; indexing policies and their impact on thesaurus design; the display, development, and maintenance of a thesaurus; and thesaurus development software? Vocabulary Management explores these topics and much more. This seminar is designed to serve both the intermediate and experienced indexer who is interested in refining his or her skills. Indexing vocabulary control input and output (search) stages are examined, as well as the tools and methods for vocabulary management. *********************************** AGENDA: 9:00 - 9:30 ............................. Registration Morning Session .................... Introduction; Vocabulary Control -- Thesauri as Control Devices; Term Structure; Semantic Relationships; Thesaurus Development Exercise 12:00 - 1:30 ............................ Lunch Afternoon Session.....................Displays and Aids to Use; Development & Maintenance; Thesaurus Software; Indexing Policies; Search Assistance: Vocabulary Management at Output Discussion & Wrap-up ************************************************* DATE: Thursday, April 25th, 1996 LOCATION: APA, 750 First St., NW, Washington, DC COST: $195 ($155 NFAIS Members) To register, call NFAIS at 215-893-1561 or fax 215-893-1564. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. You may also e-mail your registration to CHUDIE@AOL.COM. Include your name, organization, address, city, state, phone & fax numbers, and an e-mail address if applicable, on ALL registrations. Seating is limited, so register today! This message is being posted to several lists. NFAIS apologizes for duplication. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:58:35 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: TRIP10@aol.com Subject: REINVENTING A&I PROCESSES: TOOLS & TIPS ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A one-day event from the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS)... REINVENTING A&I PROCESSES: TOOLS & TIPS Various techniques adapted from data processing, organizational analysis, and industrial process control can be used to improve and redesign current processes and to develop new ones. This hands-on seminar will allow attendees to receive an overview of these various techniques and actually use these techniques to solve hypothetical problems. Benchmarking and pilot studies are also discussed. The expert presenters are: William Fein, Information Access Company, who leads off with "Enterprise Modeling"; Renee Pysz, Document & Image Systems Consulting, who talks about "Data Modeling"; Steven Feild, Workflow, Inc., who will discuss "Coordinated vs. Production Workflow Tools"; and Neal Duffy, Cigna Systems, who will talk about "Problem Solving Techniques." ************************************************************* AGENDA: 9:00 - 9:30 .................................... Registration Morning Session........................... Enterprise Modeling (William Fein, Information Access Company); Data Modeling (Renee Pysz, Document & Image Systems Consulting) 12:15 - 1:45 ................................... Lunch Afternoon Session .........................Coordinated vs. Production Workflow Tools (Steven Feild, Workflow, Inc.); Problem Solving Techniques (Neal Duffy, Cigna Systems) Discussion & Wrap-up *************************************************************** DATE: Tuesday, May 7th, 1996 LOCATION: NFAIS, 1518 Walnut St., Suite 307, Phila., PA COST: $175 ($140 NFAIS Members) To register, call NFAIS at 215-893-1561 or fax 215-893-1564. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. You may also e-mail your registration to TRIP10@AOL.COM. Include your name, organization, address, city, state, phone & fax numbers, and an e-mail address if applicable, on ALL registrations. Seating is limited, so register today! This message is being posted to several lists. NFAIS apologizes for duplication. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:58:58 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: TRIP10@aol.com Subject: How to Get the Most from FOCUS GROUPS ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- * Does your organization conduct research??? * Is one of your methods focus groups??? * Do you wonder if you are getting the most from your efforts and if you are even conducting the focus group in the best possible way??? Then this one-day event from the National Federation of Abstracting & Information Services (NFAIS) is a must-attend seminar! NFAIS presents... DO YOU REALLY KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS? HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM FOCUS GROUPS This one-day event is an absolute must for Market Research Personnel and Product Development Specialists in the Information Industry! Hear actual case studies from leading organizations such as BIOSIS and ISI. See first-hand what a "proper" focus group facility should have. Find out what type of information could, and should, be revealed through successful focus groups. Find out what others are doing to make the most out of their focus groups! The expert speakers presenting the case studies are Alan Clarke from BIOSIS and Sheila Moorthy from the Institute for Scientific Information. ******************************************** AGENDA: 10:00 - 10:30 ......................... Registration Morning Session .................... Introduction; The Focus Group Facts; The Focus Group Facility Tour 12:15 - 1:30 ............................ Lunch Afternoon Session ..................Case Study I: BIOSIS (Alan Clarke, BIOSIS); Case Study II: Institute for Scientific Information (Sheila Moorthy, ISI) Discussion & Wrap-up ********************************************** DATE: Thursday, April 18th, 1996 LOCATION: Philadelphia Focus, 100 N. 17th St., Fourth Floor, Philadelphia, PA COST: $140 ($110 NFAIS Members) To register, call NFAIS at 215-893-1561 or fax 215-893-1564. We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. You may also e-mail your registration to CHUDIE@AOL.COM. Include your name, organization, address, city, state, phone & fax numbers, and an e-mail address if applicable, on ALL registrations. Seating is limited, so register today! This message is being posted to several lists. NFAIS apologizes for duplication. Thank you. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:49:20 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Nan Badgett <76400.3351@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David, I find the time given to complete an index varies greatly from client from client. One client of mine always gives 3 weeks for an index -- even for a 100 page book! Another wants miraculous turn-arounds -- sometimes less than a week. I think 2 weeks is fair and usually ask for that even though I don't always get it. I started my indexing business as a moonlighter. I cut the hours at my day job to 4 days per week -- that helped. It was not always easy to come home and work several more hours after a day at the office. I often got up at 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. and worked several hours before I even went to the day job. I did what I had to in order to become self-employed. Good luck, Nan Badgett Word-a-bil-i-ty ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:49:38 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: "Neva J. Smith" Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David Greenbaum asks > My question is, how long does an indexer have, once proofs are >received, to compile an index? Much of my work for scholarly / university presses has been done in a 3-week time period, sometimes longer. This has its advantages and disadvantages. The turnaround allows work to be done part time, in whatever time slots you haven't filled. However, the material is often involved and has complex conceptual relationships. So it's important to me to mark pages or keep notes of the various strands in the work. Of course, it is the challange of multidisciplinary works that keeps me excited about what I'm doing. Hope this helps, Neva = < +> = * = < +> = * = < +> = * = < + > = * = < + > = * = < + > = * = < + > Neva J. Smith, MLIS DataSmiths Information Services njsmith@bga.com PO Box 2157, Round Rock, TX 78680-2157 voice/fax +1-512-244-2767 & Editor, _Library Currents_ PO Box 2199, Round Rock, TX 78680-2199 ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:49:54 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: REvans4@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In a message dated 96-03-11 11:37:38 EST, you write: >My question is, how long does an indexer have, once proofs are >received, to compile an index? Your mileage may vary, but... I use CINDEX and specialize in computer books and my comfort zone is 80 pages per day, though I recently did 670 pages in 2 days by sharing the work with a subcontractor. I average 12-20 pages per hour depending on the client and complexity of the material. Six billable hours per day is a good day's work. Eight hours is a long day and ten is exhausting. With one particular client, my page average increased from 7 pages per hour to 12 over the period of a year. This was due almost entirely to increased proficiency with CINDEX. Dick Evans ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:50:39 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Wlively@aol.com ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ndex If possible I ask if the proofs can be "flowed" to me as they become available. If everything is to be send at once I ask for at least two weekends. ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 09:50:53 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Dan Freidus Subject: software choice? In-Reply-To: <199602271933.OAA07432@biology.lsa.umich.edu> ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I am looking for software to produce an index. I prefer to work on a Macintosh but will work on a Windows machine, or even DOS, if necessary. The project is an annotated bibliography, so entries may end up being tied to item numbers rather than page numbers. It will have several indices: author, geographic, subject (the latter two may be merged). I currently produce indices for Dissertation Abstracts, but we do that using a 20 year old monster COBOL program on a mainframe, so I wouldn't want to use that even if I could. Also, that uses a totally uncontrolled vocabulary (sometimes we have separate entries for singular and plural forms of the sameword!), while I would prefer to use something approaching a thesaurus for this project. Any suggestions, on software or other aspects of such a project, would be most welcome. Dan Freidus Science Editor, Dissertations Abstracts UMI, Box 56 300 North Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 800-521-0600 x4172 freidus@umich.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:25:45 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Carol Roberts Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > My question is, how long does an indexer have, once proofs are >received, to compile an index? I work mostly on scholarly books, and I (usually) get from two to four weeks. I always ask for four in case schedules slip. That's not to say that it *takes* me four weeks to index a book. ;-) Cheers, Carol Roberts, indexer and copy editor | Life is good. Carol.Roberts@mixcom.com | Milwaukee, WI | ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:26:02 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Mrowland@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I always ask for about three times as much time as I think I will need to complete an index--to make it possible to juggle jobs from various clients, and, sometimes, from the same client. Most deadlines are negotiated, rather than a fixed amoun of time, and sometimes page proofs come to me piecemeal, sometimes much delayed, changing our original schedule. I work for one client who has a "two-week turn-around" policy, and frankly, it puzzles me that they feel any index must be done in two weeks, regardless of when they need the index, or how long or complex the book is. I usually negotiate with them too. :-) Marilyn Rowland Indexing & Writing Cape Cod, MA ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:26:13 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Wildefire@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- David, Turn-around time seems to vary considerably from publisher to publisher and with type of publisher. There often seems to be little correlation between the size of the book and the amount of time available to index it--at least in my experience Consider that one client, a very large traditional publisher that uses a number of indexers, asked me to do a 742-page book on computer programming in five days, telling me that they couldn't find anyone that would do it. It wasn't the editor I usually work with. (I told her that it was because they wanted a miracle! I had to bring out the magic wand for that one.) One client routinely gives me a month, but then their books are advanced scientific works--very challenging material, plus they're a very well organized publisher, no slipping schedules, etc. Some clients give me a week or two weeks. Now software companies are a whole other ball game and seem to vary widely. For one company, I've had to produce quite a few "one-day wonders", yet at other times they've given me a month to six weeks. However, the longer lead times are due to their having to "chunk" books in to me, so it ends up becoming a study in masochism at the end anyway. One software company is so flexible that they call me and ask me when can I work them into my schedule and then usually gives me as long as it takes to index their books--a rare treasure. Yet another software company seems to never give me longer than a week. (On the last book I did for them back in December, they wanted it in three days and, in talking with them earlier this week, I learned that that book *still* hasn't gone to the printer yet!) Currently, I have a 900+ pager for a traditional book publisher lurking in the wings where the schedule has slipped twice already and when I finally get it, they'll probably want it done in two days. (Not hardly.) Anyway, with these wide variations in scheduling, I find myself having to juggle books frequently, interrupting the indexing of one to dash out another. If you're going to start on a part-time basis, I suggest seeking traditional book publishers as clients because software companies often have such hectic schedules that it would be impossible to juggle a day-job with indexing part-time, considering the all-nighters I often pull as a full-time indexer. (And I've gone whole weeks without going to bed for the night, just catching naps when I start hallucinating at the keyboard. Once I was in the house indexing for so many days that I was amazed to find the fruit trees in full bloom when I finally went out.) Lynn Moncrief TECHindex & Docs Technical and Scientific Indexing ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:26:43 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Wildefire@aol.com Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In a message dated 96-03-12 11:01:27 EST, Dick wrote: >With one particular client, my page average increased from 7 pages per hour >to 12 over the period of a year. This was due almost entirely to increased >proficiency with CINDEX. And probably also due to your increased familiarity with their material since many publishers tend to publish in a certain vein. When I started with one client, I didn't have a clue what their books were about (an object-oriented programming environment) and now their books are a piece of cake. (When I told the client that, he said, "Lynn, that's really scarey since even the programmers don't understand this stuff." Oh.) Lynn Moncrief TECHindex & Docs Technical and Scientific Indexing > > ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:27:05 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Debra Wallace Subject: SDAIR'96 ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval April 15 - 17, 1996 Alexis Park Resort Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsored by the Information Science Research Institute and The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas Symposium Chair Henry S. Baird, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Invited Speakers Information Retrieval - From Academic Research to Practical Applications Hans-Peter Frei; Union Bank of Switzerland Substituting Images for Books: Library Economics, Technology, and Politics Michael Lesk; Bellcore Text Recognition - From Pixels to Meaning Juergen Schuermann; Daimler Benz Research Center Team Debate "Defect Models are Important to Advance the State-of-the-Art of Optical Character Recognition" Affirmative Team: Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Robert Haralick; University of Washington Negative Team: Daniel Lopresti; Panasonic Technologies, Inc. George Nagy; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Document Analysis Committee Andreas Dengel, Chair, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Norbert Bartneck, Daimler Benz Research Center Hiromichi Fujisawa, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory Jonathan Hull, Ricoh California Research Center Junichi Kanai, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Larry Spitz, Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center Suzanne Liebowitz Taylor, Loral Defense Systems Karl Tombre, INRIA Lorraine Information Retrieval Committee Jan Pedersen, Chair, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Susan Dumais, Bellcore Stephen Gallant, Belmont Research Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards & Technology Marti Hearst, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center David Lewis, AT&T Research Peter Schauble, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Kazem Taghva, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Yiming Yang, Mayo Clinic/Foundation Papers Presented Maximum Spanning Trees for Text Segmentation Antonio P. Dias; Harvard University In-house Mail Distribution by Automatic Address and Content Interpretation Thomas Bruckner, Peter Suda, Hans Ulrich Block, Gerd Maderlechner; Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Development USeg: A Retargetable Word Segmentation Procedure for Information Retrieval Jay M. Ponte, W. Bruce Croft; University of Massachusetts Text Categorization: A Symbolic Approach Isabelle Moulinier, *Gailius Raskinis, Jean-Gabriel Ganascia; University of Paris, *Vtautas Magnus University Support Tools for Visual Information Management Gokhan Kutlu, Bruce A. Draper, Eliot B. Moss, Edward M. Riseman; University of Massachusetts Edit Distance of Regular Languages Horst Bunke; University of Bern Language Identification: Examining the Issues Penelope Sibun, *Jeffrey C. Reynar; Northwestern University, *University of Pennsylvania Fast Decision Tree Ensembles for Optical Character Recognition Harris Drucker; AT&T Bell Laboratories Length Normalization in Degraded Text Collections Amit Singhal, Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley; Cornell University Extraction of Thematically Relevant Text from Images Francine R. Chen, Dan S. Bloomberg; Xerox PARC Measuring the Effects of Data Corruption on Information Retrieval Elke Mittendorf, Peter Schauble; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Keyword-Based Browsing and Analysis of Large Document Sets Ido Dagan, Ronen Feldman, *Haym Hirsh; Bar-Ilan University, *Rutgers University Tailoring a Retrieval System for Naive Users Adrienne J. Kleiboemer, Manette B. Lazear, *Jan O. Pedersen; MITRE Corporation, *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints Marti A. Hearst; Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Degraded Character Image Restoration John D. Hobby, Henry S. Baird; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Automatically-Generated High-Reliability Features for Dichotomies of Printed Characters George Nagy, Xiaoyin Wang; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Retrieval Strategies for Noisy Text Daniel Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou; Panasonic Technologies, Inc. A General-Purpose Japanese Optical Character Recognition System Sargur N. Srihari, Geetha Srikantan, Tao Hong, Brian Grom; State University of New York at Buffalo, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition OCR and Voting Shell Fulfilling Specific Text Analysis Requirements Thorsten Jager; German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Logotype Detection in Compressed Images using Alignment Signatures A. Lawrence Spitz; Daimler Benz Research and Technology Center Reliable Recognition of Handwritten Marks in Checkboxes B. Latanzio, A. Garzotto; Swiss Life Information Systems Research Generalized Form Registration Using Structure-Based Techniques Michael D. Garris, Patrick J. Grother; National Institute of Standards and Technology Registration Pre-Registration: before March 15, 1996 On-site Registration: Sunday, April 14, 7:00pm to 10:00pm Monday, April 15, 7:00am to 11:00am Tuesday, April 16, 7:30am to 11:00am Location: Alexis Park Resort Cost: $425.00 before March 15, 1996 $500.00 after March 15, 1996 Hotel Accommodations Alexis Park Resort, located near the center of the Las Vegas strip, is the host hotel for the 1996 Symposium. If you choose to stay at the Alexis Park Resort, please make hotel reservations no later than March 14 to ensure room availability. A reservation form is included in this advance program for your convenience. Due to convention season in Las Vegas, ROOMS WILL FILL UP QUICKLY AT ALL HOTELS. Please make hotel reservations as soon as possible. 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Please reserve accommodations for: Name: Home Address: City: State/Country: Zip : Company Name: Business Address: City: State/Country: Zip: Business Phone: SINGLE OCCUPANCY - $100.00 (+8% tax) TRIPLE OCCUPANCY - $115.00 (+8% tax) DOUBLE OCCUPANCY - $100.00 (+8% tax) QUAD OCCUPANCY - $130.00 (+8% tax) Will Arrive: Time: Will Depart: Time: Enclosed is my deposit payable by (check one): Check _____ Mastercard _____ JCB _____ Visa _____ Am Express _____ Carte Blanche _____ Discover _____ Diners Club _____ Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Print name as it appears on card: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fifth Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE University of Nevada, Las Vegas April 15-17, 1996 Conference Registration Form Name: Title: Company: Address: City: State/Country: Zip: Telephone: Fax: E-mail Address: Registration Fees Pre-Reg Regular Amount before 3/15/96 after 3/15/96 Conference Registration $425.00 $500.00 $____________ (Includes lunch 4/15/96 and 4/16/96) Monday Dinner (per person) $ 20.00 $____________ Conference Proceedings (Extra Proceedings) $ 50.00 $____________ (One Proceedings is included as part of the registration fee) 1995 CD-ROM $100.00 $____________ (1995 Conference Proceedings and Annual Report) 1992, 1993 and 1994 CD-ROM $100.00 $____________ (1992, 1993 and 1994 Conference Proceedings and 1993 and 1994 Annual Report) TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: $____________ Enclosed is my payment payable by (check one): Check/Money Order _____ Mastercard _____ VISA _____ Discover _____ American Express _____ Make checks/money orders payable to: UNLV Board of Regents. 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For payment by credit card please fill out the following information: Credit Card Number: Expiration Date: Please Print Name (as it appears on card): I authorize ISRI/UNLV to debit my account for the TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: signature: ___________________________________ Mail, fax, or email completed conference registration form and payment to: Symposium Manager Information Science Research Institute Telephone (702)895-4571 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fax (702)895-1183 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454021 Email sdair@isri.unlv.edu Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 For a complete advance program: ftp site: ftp.isri.unlv.edu, directory:/pub/SDAIR96/AdvanceProgram.txt or send email to sdair@isri.unlv.edu ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:58:19 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Matthew Pressly Subject: Text with not-yet-final pagination ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- A while back, someone mentioned a method of indexing using entry numbers (sequentially assigned, with an increment of 5 or 10 to give you room to insert more later during editing (5,10,15,...)) instead of page numbers so that you can index a text that does not have its final pagination yet, then convert entry numbers back to page numbers when the final proofs are available. I think this method was intended for unpaginated texts (galleys?), but has anyone tried it on texts that go through frequent revisions? If so, how well did this work? Did it seem like it saved a significant amount of time in the long run over just indexing the original text with regular pages and then updating the page numbers when the final text was ready? Does anyone have any alternative methods to reduce the work required in keeping a pretty up-to-date index of a frequently changing text (without using embedded index codes)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Pressly ...uunet!motsps!oakhill.sps.mot.com!mattp mattp@oakhill.sps.mot.com ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:58:31 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Wildefire@aol.com Subject: Re: URL for presses ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In a message dated 96-03-11 11:39:25 EST, Paula wrote: >The addresses of the member presses of American Association of >University Presses is at >http://aaup.pupress.princeton.edu:70/0/central/members.html > >(for those of you looking for names/addresses of presses to whom you >would like to address some promotional info. > This is some great info that Paula gave us here. Just in case you lose the URL she gave (if your office is like mine with stacks of pieces of paper with URLs scribbled on them), you can also access this site via a link from ASI's own Web site at: http://www.well.com/user/asi Go to the publishers' section of our site and you'll see the link. A week and a half ago, Janet Perlman and I gave a presentation on using the Internet at the Southern California ASI chapter's annual conference. As part of the live Web demo, I had folks from the audience call out their choice of links to follow when I was demonstrating doing market research on the Web and someone chose this one, which was my first introduction to it. There's a treasure trove there, folks, and Paula did a great service by posting it here! BTW, as part of the demo for doing subject matter research on the Web, Bonnie McLaughlin suggested that we plug "Brazilian theater"--a topic I thought was rather obscure--into one of the Web search engines. And bingo!!!! You wouldn't believe the number of hits we got on it! We're talking the biggest library in the world at your very fingertips, ladies and gentlemen!!!! Lynn Moncrief TECHindex & Docs Technical and Scientific Indexing ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:41:03 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: BethJT@aol.com Subject: Re: software choice? ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- One option is to go to a dedicated biliography software. The one I have used to prepare annotated bibliographies in the past is Endnote Plus. It automatically creates entries in all the major formats or you can create your own style. It can also import files from other mac, DOS, or windows programs and is moderately priced. Whether something like Endnote or an indexing program is better for your purpose I'm not sure. You will need to judge by what you think your future needs will be. Beth Tudor Tudor Indexing ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:42:18 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: MCLAUGHB@cgs.edu Subject: How long do you get to compile an index? ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- For those who are indexing as a second career with a full-time day job, seasonal cycles are also a consideration. For example, I index for university presses, and most of my work comes in the January-June period for summer or fall catalogs. July and August are generally dead periods for me, and a light schedule resumes in the fall. Because I know that I will have the opportunity to make most of my money in the winter-spring period, I schedule heavily during that time, and take vacation time from my full-time job if I need it rather than pulling all-nighters and jeopardizing work quality on both jobs, not to mention my health! This cycle has been consistent for me for the last four or five years, so I can plan fairly closely when I will need to take vacation days. Most of my clients ask for a three-week turnaround, although two weeks is also common in this sector. Bonny McLaughlin mclaughb@cgs.edu ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:52:36 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Charlotte Skuster Subject: Re: How long do you get to compile an index ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: sconroy@slonet.org > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > David, > I find the time given to complete an index varies greatly from client from > client. One client of mine always gives 3 weeks for an index -- even for a 100 > page book! Another wants miraculous turn-arounds -- sometimes less than a week. > I think 2 weeks is fair and usually ask for that even though I don't always get > it. Seems like two weeks is more or less standard in my area as well--college textbooks and similar nonfiction. I've had five days to do an 800-page scientific book (nearly killed me), and I've had a month to do a 150-page self-help workbook. One of the problems with working in stages (when you get a few chapters at a time "hot off the typesetter") is that you end up creating a list of bloopers that you really don't know have been fixed in final pages. I've found the most amazing errors (some of which would never be caught by the average proofreader) working from first-pass page proofs. But working this way does avoid the horrible last-minute crunch when you get 750 pages and have just a few days to turn in the index. Thank goodness for FedEx, and for file transfers over the Internet! =Sonsie= ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:52:46 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: Jennifer Comeau Subject: In-house MS Editorial position ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ASSISTANT PROJECT EDITOR Act as editorial liaison with authors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and Production Department colleagues for the University of Nebraska Press, publishers of 160+ books each year and the largest academic press between Chicago and California. Evaluate MSS for compliance with publisher's requirements; advise authors on substantive and format revisions; ensure that MSS meet permissions requirements. Prepare MSS thoroughly for pencil and electronic copyediting using a variety of Press databases and word processors. Bachelor's plus two years experience in scholarly publishing, to include copyediting, required; equivalency considered. Excellent grammar, spelling, and editing skills essential. Must have demonstrated ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously. Computer proficiency required. Familiarity with standard usage and style manuals necessary. Knowledge of a major European language preferred. Excellent benefits and work environment. Submit cover letter of application with resume, the names of three professional references, and two editing samples (with author queries) postmarked by March 29, 1996, to Jennifer Comeau, Managing Editor, University of Nebraska Press, 312 North 14th St., Lincoln NE 68588-0484. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is committed to EEO/AA and ADA. If you need assistance under the ADA, please contact Jennifer Comeau.