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SIGDOC Newsletter
March 2006
:: Volume 7, Number 1
Looking Ahead
Conferences: SIGDOC 2006
The 24th International Conference on
Design of Communication
September 21 – 23, 2005; Coventry, UK
http://www.sigdoc.org/2006
CFP: 2006 Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA)
Innovation Award
IBM is pleased to announce the 2006 Unstructured Information Management
Architecture (UIMA) Innovation Award program, an international award
competition designed to encourage the use of open source and open standards-based
tools for academic curricula and research.
The UIMA framework supports the hard work of advancing the state-of-the-art
in Natural Language Processing and more generally algorithms for unstructured
information (text, audio, video) analysis, in real-world settings and
on configurations ranging from stand-alone laptop computers to large
clusters of servers. This work is distinct from the more mundane (but
needed) aspects involved in managing the creation, assembly from independently
developed components, configuration, deployment, scaling and monitoring
of applications that use the algorithms. The pure Java realization of
UIMA, available for free download from alphaWorks (ibm.com/alphaWorks),
has limited Eclipse tooling for assisting the analysis algorithm developer
and component assembler but much more remains to be done.
Proposals are
sought in this area, in the porting of significant analysis algorithms
to the UIMA framework, and in the use of UIMA to support knowledge acquisition
for the semantic web.
Awards are valued in the range of US $10,000 to $30,000. To qualify
for these internationally competitive awards, the submitter must be a
full-time
faculty member at an accredited college or university which offers
Baccalaureate, Master's or Doctoral programs.
For more information, please visit www.ibm.com/university
How To Submit Proposals
Proposals should be submitted following a two-step process:
- Step 1: Initiate a proposal by sending an email (subject: UIMA Innovation
Awards) to awards@us.ibm.com with the following information:
- Submitter's
full name
- Submitter's university email address (Please note
that we cannot process awards with public email addresses such
as yahoo, hotmail, etc.)
- Department Head's university email
address
- Step 2: An email response will be sent with a link to
the IBM Faculty Awards web site, where you can complete the submission
as a faculty award "nominee." Each
proposal should describe the background and objectives of the proposal,
an outline plan showing milestones, current funding (if any), funding
requested, the staff involved and any interested collaborators or sponsors.
Submitted entries will be judged by a panel of experts from IBM
Research
and Development. External reviews of proposals will be sought to assist
in the selection process. IBM assumes no responsibility for computer
system, hardware, software, network program, or other errors, failures,
delays or malfunctions of any kind, whether human or technical in nature,
in the transmission or receipt of emails or proposals. Key dates
March 16, 2006: Online submission opens
April 7, 2006: Deadline for initiating a proposal
April 14, 2006: Deadline for submitting a proposal
May 26, 2006: Award winners notified via email and postal mail
IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006)
10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics
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10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics
Cybernetics and Informatics (http://www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006).
Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 16-19, 2006.
As a response to the many requests we have received, the Organizing
Committee of WMSCI 2006 (The 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics) has decided to extend the deadline for papers
and abstracts submission to April 4, 2006. If you have not already done
so, please submit your abstract or your paper through the Conference
web site http://www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006 or
rush it attached to an e-mail to... wmsci2006@iiis-sci.org, wmsci2006@telcel.net.ve, or wmsci2006@cantv.net
The new deadlines are as follows:
- April 4th for the abstract and
paper submissions, and for the invited session proposals.
- April 25th
for the acceptance notifications.
- May 9th for the submission of camera-ready
papers.
The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 4 of JSCI
Journal (http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp).
12 issues of the volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about 200
university and research libraries, and 6 issues of Volume 3 (2005) will be
sent to a larger number of library. Promotional, free subscriptions, for
2 years, are being considered for the organizations of the Journal's authors.
We are emphasizing the area of Information Systems and Software Documentation
which is related to your specific area.
Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related
to a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing
an invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the conference
web page, and we will send you a password, so you can include and modify
papers in your invited session.
Organizers of the invited sessions with the best performance will be co-editors
of the proceeding volume where their sessions' papers were included and of
the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidate for invited editors,
or co-editors of a possible JSCI Journal issue related to their invited session
papers.
You can find information about the suggested steps to organize an invited
session in the Call for Participation and in the conference web page.
If by any reason you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please,
try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/wmsci2006.
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