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Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on "Mapping Knowledge Domains"
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA
May 9-11, 2003
http://vw.indiana.edu/sackler03/
Sponsored by the The National Academy of Sciences
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Symposium Organizer
Richard M. Shiffrin
Psychology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
tel: 812-855-4972, fax: 812-855-1086, email: [log in to unmask]

Associate Organizer
Katy Börner
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
47405

tel: 812-855-3256, fax: 812-855-6166, email: [log in to unmask]

Organizing Committee
Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Laboratories
Chaomei Chen, Drexel University
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Corporation
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado
Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Motivation & Description
The information explosion in recent years, often in the form of information
available electronically, has sparked development of a new interdisciplinary
area of science aimed at charting, mining, analyzing, sorting, and
displaying interesting and important aspects of this knowledge and
information. Indeed, progress in this area is critically important for the
functioning of modern society, and particularly for the growth of
scientific research, because without such tools it has become almost
impossible to find and organize relevant information.  We therefore
propose a Sackler Colloquium aimed to highlight the many facets of this
emerging field. Information on this colloquium, as far as it is known at
the present time, may be found at the website:
http://vw.indiana.edu/sackler03/


Database
A major goal of the proposed colloquium is to demonstrate and compare different
techniques, algorithms, and approaches that can be utilized to map knowledge
domains. In order to facilitate this goal, registered participants are eligible
to utilize the so called PNAS Data Set. The data set comprises full text
documents from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
covering 01-07-1997 to 09-17-2002 (148 issues containing some 93,000
journal pages). The data is available on Microsoft Access 97 format.

Paper Submission & Student Packages
Due to severe space and time limitations, a large number of researchers who
carry out highly relevant research, indeed in many cases leaders in the
field, could not be included among the list of speakers. However, we would
like to encourage these researcher  to attend the Colloquium and if
possible to contribute to the colloquium by submitting a 2-page abstract by
March 1st, 2003.  The organizers will review these abstracts and select
those of quality to be presented as a poster or demonstration during a
session we have set aside for this purpose.

There will be a number of student packages available, also offering the
opportunity to present a poster or demonstration (the packages will
provide the registration fee plus $500 support). If you have students that
would like to apply, please encourage them to send a two page abstract,
and send a supporting statement on their behalf by March 1st, 2003.

Please submit papers as well as statements in support of students to
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We hope you will be able to attend this colloquium, and would be pleased if you
could take part.

Sincerely,
Richard Shiffrin & Katy Börner