5.0284 Symposium: SGML, ODA, Information Retrieval (1/60)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 20 Aug 1991 18:35:55 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0284. Tuesday, 20 Aug 1991.

Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 12:58:25 -0400
From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
Subject: Symposium on SGML, ODA, and Information Retrieval


SYMPOSIUM

APPLYING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TO MARKED-UP OR STRUCTURED DOCUMENTS

Rockfeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399
9am to 5:15pm, 18 October 1991

Organized by the Center for Advanced Study of Information Systems Inc. (CASIS)
under the sponsorship of Dr. F. Seitz, President Emeritus, Rockfeller University


PROGRAM

Chaired by Pierre Aigrain, Former French Minister

General Introduction: Bruce Merrifield

>From overflow of documents to answering impredictable questions
Norbert Paquel, CANOPE

The Text Encoding Initiative
Don Walker, Bellcore

Linguistic analysis: exploiting structure and extracting structure
Lisa Rau, General Electric R&D

Semantic extension to text retrieval
James Driscoll, University of Central Florida

Utilization of a text algebra for retrieval of information from a hierarchical
database, incorporating heterogeneous structured documents
F. Burkowski, University of Waterloo

Incorporating human aspects in human computer interaction in information
retrieval
Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University

Exploiting SGML information for document retrieval
Yuri Rubinsky, SoftQuad, Inc.

SGML, distinguishing Intelligence from formating
Sam Wilmott, Software Exoterica Corporation

Interaction with ODA structure
Mark Bramhall, Digital Equipment Corp.

PANEL SESSION: Practical evolution of retrieval techniques in enterprise-wide
document databases
Chaired by Joshua Lederberg, Past President, Rockfeller University
and Nobel Prize Winner

For more information and to register, contact:

CASIS, Attention: Mrs M.T. Maurice
220 East 72nd Street
New York, NY 10021, USA
Phone: (+1-212) 879 4019
Fax: (+1-212) 879 4552