KDD Nuggets 94:4, 1994-02-23 Contents: * John Guidi: Workshop on Information Retrieval and Genomics * Y. Shum: Query -- Automatic Hyperlinking ? The KDD Nuggets is a moderated list for the exchange of information relevant to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), e.g. application descriptions, conference announcements, tool reviews, information requests, interesting ideas, outrageous opinions, etc. Contributions to kdd@gte.com; Add/delete requests to kdd-request@gte.com -- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (moderator) ------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 10:06:19 EST From: jng@jax.org (John Guidi) Subject: Workshop on Information Retrieval and Genomics: Papers Due March 2 ***************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***************** Workshop on Information Retrieval and Genomics May 2-4, 1994 Lister Hill Center Auditorium National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD This workshop brings together researchers and developers in information retrieval (IR) technologies with scientists who are actively involved with research in genomics (genetics, molecular biology, and allied fields). People involved in informatics efforts that support these activities are especially encouraged to participate. A number of efforts are underway to create new, or to improve extant, resources that provide information on DNA sequences, genetic linkage, gene expression, phenotypic effects, comparative genetics, etc. There are a number of areas where IR can make further contributions in the development of these resources. Examples include, but are not limited to: efficient handling of unstructured text; interoperability of text and databases; navigational issues; indexing; linguistic analysis of sequences; motif identification; network access to singular and federated systems; user interface issues. The goals of this interdisciplinary workshop are to: 1) classify some of the problems that providers of genomic resources are faced with, and how these problems are currently being addressed. 2) provide feedback from the IR community as to the techniques currently being used by the genomics community to address their IR needs. 3) identify specific IR areas and topics that have potential and that require additional research. 4) provide a forum for real collaborations to develop among members of the IR and genomics communities. Participation in the workshop will be by invitation, based on electronic position papers submitted by prospective participants. Position papers should be one page in length and should consist of a description of research interests and/or practice related to the stated goals of the workshop. Some participants will be selected to give talks and participate in panel discussions at the workshop, based on their position papers. The position papers will be distributed as a collection at the workshop. Please submit position papers electronically to the address ir-genomics@jax.org; papers must be composed using the template at the end of this message. Deadlines March 2, 1994 - Deadline for receipt of electronic position papers. April 1, 1994 - Notification of acceptance. Conference Chairperson Ed Fox (VPI & State University) Program Chairperson John Guidi (The Jackson Laboratory) Program Committee Ron Ashany (National Science Foundation) David Benton (National Center for Human Genome Research) Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Dan Davison (University of Houston) Ken Fasman (Johns Hopkins University) Bob Futrelle (Northeastern University) William Gelbart (Harvard University) Nat Goodman (The Whitehead Institute) Donna Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Bill Hersh (Oregon Health Sciences University) Robert Ledley (National Biomedical Research Foundation) Mick Noordewier (Rutgers University) Gerard Salton (Cornell University) Craig Stanfill (Thinking Machines Corporation) John Wilbur (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Maria Zemankova (Mitre Corporation) Local Hosts Dennis Benson (National Center for Biotechnology Information) John Wilbur (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Sponsorship This workshop has been organized under the joint sponsorship of the Special Interest Groups on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and Biology (SIGBIO) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Please be advised that there will be no financial support available for participant travel. The support of the National Library of Medicine, host of this workshop, is gratefully acknowledged. Application Form Please edit the form below to include the requested information, and send the completed form by electronic mail to the address: ir-genomics@jax.org In the event of any difficulties, contact: John Guidi The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1500 phone: (207)288-3371 X-1391 fax: (207)288-5079 email: jng@jax.org ---------------------------- cut here ------------------------ Name: Institution: Surface mail address: Email address: Fax telephone number: Voice telephone number: Include a 1 page abstract in the space below as simple ASCII text with no embedded formatting commands: -------------------------------- From: shuychon@mehta.anu.edu.au (Y. Shum) Subject: Automatic Hyperlinking Hi there, I'm doing a research on automatic creating hyperlinks between nontextual document and textual document, eg creating hyperlinks from a radio interview with a politician to the a text which cites the interview. What techniques should I use to identify that the nontextual data is related to the text? Is there any research litereature on this? At the moment I'm reading up on data mining but unfortunately, it is about identifying hidden relationship in a relational database but mine is a multimedia database. Thanx.