Buzz - Natural Language Processing

• International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) 2012

  Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis report on TPDL 2012 held at Paphos, Cyprus, over 23-27 September 2012.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoot

  Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 67.

• Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources

  Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future

  Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

  Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives

  Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics.

• Book Review: Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval

  Charles Oppenheim sees improvements in this second edition but has reservations about one of the few UK-based texts on this subject.

• Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 37, 2003

  Colin Harris declares himself a veteran reader of the ARIST, assesses the kinds of reviewing it performs and balances the strengths and weaknesses of this long-standing publication.

• Search Engines

  Tracey Stanley writes about "Ask Jeeves", a search engine which processes natural language enquiries.

• JournalsOnline: The Online Journal Solution

  Jane Henley and Sarah Thompson look at the BIDS JournalsOnline service and its commercial competitors.

• ADAM: Information Gateway to Resources on the Internet in Art, Design, Architecture and Media

  Nearly half a year after the project’s official start date, ADAM has a fledgling information gateway to information on the Internet in art, design, architecture and media. Tony Gill, ADAM Project Leader, outlines what has been achieved so far, and some of the challenges that lie directly ahead.

• CURL OPAC launch

  Andrew Cooper describes the CURL OPAC launch in Manchester.