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News for ICSTI Members March 23rd 2002
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- From: Howard Flack <Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:31:01 GMT
News for ICSTI Members March 23rd 2002 1. Article summarizing software [from the FOS (Free Online Scholarship) Newsletter] One of the myriad ways that sophisticated software will help researchers is to write short summaries of digital articles. Gerald DeJong pioneered this kind of AI with FRUMP (Fast Reading Understanding and Memory Program), a 1979 adaptation of Roger Schank's script-based AI. FRUMP could read long newspaper stories and write strikingly accurate short summaries. To see where this technology is today, visit the Columbia Newsblaster, an AI news portal from Columbia University's NLP (Natural Language Processing) Group. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/ "Apart from the intelligent software, a summarizing service like Newsblaster depends on the availability of free online content to harvest as data for the software. Imagine a "Researchblaster" for your discipline, harvesting the growing number of free, online, full-text articles, and offering accurate summaries organized by category and topic" The Columbia NLP Group is working on such a system for the field of medicine http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~noemie/papers/was01.pdf Stephen Wan's resources on Automatic Text Summarization, including a history of the field, list of projects, glossary, and bibliography are at: http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~swan/summarization/index.htm "Text-summarizing or "gisting" software is just one example of software that will take FOS as data and return services unobtainable or even unimaginable to researchers in the age of print" This week the Institute of Physics announced that it is using the Vivisimo Clustering Engine for searching its online journals http://vivisimo.com/docs/IOP_release.doc 2. Hybrid Library of the Future The Hybrid Library of the Future (HyLiFe) project, which was completed last year, has now released the final version of the HyLiFe toolkit. The project was supported under the UK Government's eLib programme, and the toolkit is the result of three years' collaborative effort and provides detailed information and advice on a wide variety of operational, technical and managerial aspects of hybrid library development. Although HyLiFe is now completed, the project would be interested in any comments on the Toolkit. http://hylife.unn.ac.uk/toolkit/ 3. Electronic resource collections The new book, "Building an electronic resource collection: a practical guide" by Stuart D. Lee, attempts to guide the information professional step-by-step through building and managing an electronic resource collection. Issues covered include: - What is a dataset? Why buy one? - Formulating an electronic collection development policy - What is on offer? The electronic resources landscape - E-journals and e-books - What should one buy? Assessing and acquiring the dataset - How does one deliver the dataset? Networking, user interfaces, usage statistics. Published in February 2002, the book's author, Dr Stuart Lee, is Head of the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services. More information: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk -- VISITING GENEVA? See http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/geneva02.html Howard Flack http://www.unige.ch/crystal/ahdf/Howard.Flack.html Laboratoire de Cristallographie Phone: +41 22 702 62 49 24 quai Ernest-Ansermet mailto:Howard.Flack@cryst.unige.ch CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland Fax: +41 22 702 61 08
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