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                   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                       8th
ASIS SIG/CR
              Classification Research Workshop:

An interdisciplinary meeting.

Washington D.C., Sunday, November 2,
1997, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m


The American Society for Information
Science Special Interest Group on
Classification Research (ASIS SIG/CR)
invites submissions for
the 8th ASIS Classification Research Workshop,
to be held at the 60th Annual
Meeting of ASIS, November 1-6, 1997,
Washington D.C.,
URL: http://www.asis.org/annual-97/ASIS97.htm.
The
workshop will take place Sunday, November 2, 1997, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m.
The conference hotel is the J.S. Marriott on Pennsylvania Ave,
Washington D.C.


Scope

The Classification Research Workshop is
designed to promote the exchange
of ideas among active researchers with
interests in classification
creation, development, management,
representation, display, comparison,
compatibility, theory, and
application.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Applications
such as subject analysis, natural language understanding,

information retrieval, expert systems.
- Automated techniques to assist
in creating classification schemes.
- Bases for semantic classes.
-
Classification algorithms.
- Comparison and compatibility between
classification schemes.
- Concept acquisition.
- Data structures and
programming languages for classification schemes.
- Image
classification.
- Inheritance and subsumption.
- Interfaces for
displaying classification schemes.
- Knowledge representation schemes.

- Procedural knowledge in classification schemes.
- Reasoning with
classification schemes.
- Relations and their properties.
-
Representation and access on the Internet.
- Software for management of
classification schemes.
- Statistical techniques used for developing
explicit semantic classes.
- User-based classification strategies.
-
Warrant for concepts in classification schemes.

The Classification
Research Workshop welcomes submissions from various
disciplines.Those
interested in participating are invited to submit:

     1) a short
(2-3 page single-spaced) research paper summarizing

substantive work that has been conducted in the above areas or

other related areas,

     2) a statement briefly outlining the reason
for wanting to
            participate in the workshop, and

     3) a
brief (1 page) personal statement describing research interests.


* Submissions may include background papers as attachments.

Submitted
papers will be refereed for acceptance.  The authors
of accepted
papers will be asked to submit an expanded version.
Some of the authors
of expanded papers will be invited to speak to their
papers in brief
presentations during the workshop.  All expanded papers
will be
published in the preliminary proceedings and mailed to all early

registrants prior to the workshop.  After the workshop, authors will be

given the opportunity to revise their papers for final publication of
the
proceedings by Information Today, Inc.

Early registration fees
for ALL PARTICIPANTS are $35.00 for SIG/CR members
and/or participants
with expanded papers; $45.00 for ASIS members; $60.00 for
non-members.
(As the workshop is separate from the ASIS Annual Meeting,
an
additional registration is required for the Annual Meeting).

Previous
proceedings are titled "Advances in Classification Research:

proceedings of the n_th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Workshop" and are

published by Information Today, Inc., 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford,
NJ
08055. Tel: 609/654-6266;  URL: http://www.infotoday.com.


Deadlines


April 11, 1997: Extended Abstract (2-3 pages single-spaced,

in english, following the APA Manual of Style 4th ed, 1994)

should be received by the workshop chair. E-mail submissions.

May 9,
1997: Notification of acceptance, and publication
             of detailed
specifications for expanded papers.

June 27, 1997: Expanded papers due
to workshop chair for refereeing by
         the program committee.


July 23, 1997: Refereed papers back to authors for final revision.


August 29, 1997: Final copies of expanded papers in camera ready copy

are to be received by the workshop chair for publication
         in
the workshop proceedings.

Publications:
a) Workshop
Proceedings: includes all accepted papers;
b) "Advances in
Classification Research: proceedings of
    the 8th ASIS SIG/CR
Classification Workshop": includes selected papers.


Organizing and
program committee:

        Workshop Chair:

                Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, UCLA


Program committee:

                Marcia Bates,       UCLA
                Allyson Carslyle,
University of Washington
                Clare Begthol,      University of Toronto

Raya Fidel,         University of Washington
                Elin Jacobs,
Indiana University
                Barbara Kwasnik,    Syracuse University
                Ray
Schwartz,       Rutgers University
                Paul Solomon,       University of
North Carolina


Submissions and information requests:
Submissions
should be made by email (paper copy, fax or postal, submission
is a
non-preferred method) to arrive by Friday April 11, 1997, to:


Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
        Assistant Professor
        Department of Library &
Information Science
        Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

University of California, Los Angeles
        Mailbox 951520
        Los Angeles, CA
90095-1520, USA
        phone: 310-825-8975; fax: 310-206-4460; email:
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Email or Postcard confirmations will be sent upon
receipt of
submissions.  For additional information, email:
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or access URL:
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/www/asis/crwork.html

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