LMDA Canada Newsletter, September 2001

Contents include: Toward New Developmental Structures, The Good Conversation: Denver & Toronto 2001, Mini-Conference on Dramaturgy: Day One, Mini-Conference on Dramaturgy: Day Two, Some Thoughts on the Differences Between German and Canadian Dramaturgy, Report from the Chairhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1027/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Canada Newsletter, 2002/2003

Contents include: Report from the Chair, Toward New Developmental Structures, Challenging Assumptions: Vancouver 2002, Inside/Outside at the Mini-Conference: Toronto 2002, True Confessions: I was a Process Junkie!, Playwrights\u27 Development Centres: Establishing a New Network, LMDA Canada: Membership Contact Listhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1024/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Review, volume 12, issue 2

Contents include: Relevance, Residency & Playwriting, The Dramaturgy Residency Project Overview, Residency Project One: Kristen Gandrow at Voice & Vision, Interview with the Dramaturg Kristen Gandrow, Residency Project Two: Brad Rothbart at INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center, Interview with the Dramaturg Brad Rothbart, Residency Project Three: Maxine Kern at New Dramatists, Interview with the Artistic Director Todd London, Interview with the Dramaturg Maxine Kern, Michele Volansky President-Elect of LMDA, LMDA at the Crossroads, Conference 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Conference Overview (tentative), LMDA Canada Report, The Musical Structure of Playwriting: A Planel Discussion, and Announcing our new Administrator Cynthia Croot. Issue editor: Gretchen Haleyhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1025/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Canada Newsletter, May 2004

Contents include: Letter from LMDA Canada Chair, Creative Dramaturgy and New Play Development: A Preview of Canadian Theatre Review 119 Summer 2004, LMDA Canada Meeting Friday March 5 2004, LMDA Canada Membership Listhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1031/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Review, volume 11, issue 1

Contents include: Advocacy Guidelines,LMDA Members Meet with the NEA, Update The Elliot Hayes Award,Update Script Exchange, Presentation Of Elliott Hayes Award to Rebecca Rugg, To Lynn Thomson, Conference Panels and Sessions, Conversations About Digital Dramaturgy, Key Note, Dramaturg As Generator, Multi-Authorship: Too Many Cooks?, Desperately Seeking Research, On Copyright, The Dramaturg As Advocate For The Arts On City, State/Provincial, And National Levels, Entrances And Exits, The (New Play) Workshop\u27s The Thing, Anne Cattaneo On Commissioning New Work, LMDA Regions And VPs, News From Canada, News from Baltimore, News from Chicago, The Past Two Years, and On, Notes to Fellow LMDA Members, Spotlight on Early Career Dramturgs, Dramaturgy Opening Arena Stage, Internship at the Women\u27s Project, Literary Residency in New York, Dramaturgy/Literary Management Internship at Arena Stage, Job Opening at UCSD, A Note to LMDA Members, Unity Fest 2001 Call for Scripts, Call for Directors, Actors, Dramaturgs, and Call for Updates to the LMDA Guide to Programs in Dramaturgy.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1022/thumbnail.jp

LMDA Review, volume 10, issue 1

Contents include: Photo of Conference Participants Annual Conference 1999, Send in your Ballot, A Note to Ourselves, Increase in Dues and New Annual Membership Expiration Date, LMDA Archive, LMDA Administrator; LMDA Interns, Mid-Year Meeting, Early Career Dramaturg Program, Elliot Hayes Award 2000, Report on Canadian Caucus, Script Exchange, Report on the Dramaturgy Focus Group ATHE 1999, Elliot Hayes Award Winners Lue Douthit and Michel Volansky, Acceptance Speech Lue Morgan Douthit, Elliot Hayes Award Presentation to Michele Volansky for Space, On the Elliot Hayes Award Michele Volansky, Day One of the Conference, Day Two of the Conference, Day Three of the Conference, Day Four of the Conference, The Advocacy Caucus Presentation at the Conference, Final Thoughts, Conference 1999 Many Thanks, Arthur Ballet and the Office for Advanced Drama Research, Spotlight on Early Career Dramaturg Vanessa Porteous, A Working History of LMDA The Early Years, From Academia to Arena A Dramaturg\u27s Education in the Real World, Tony Creamer and Death of a Salesman, Two Moments, Jobs and Projects, Scriptseeker.com, LMDA Online Listserv Instructions, Note from James Magruder, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Bibliography 1999, Noted with Pleasure, and Internship Questionnaire.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1020/thumbnail.jp

Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 16, issue 1

Contents include: Editors\u27 Note; Kirk Watson\u27s List for Making a Cool City; Remembering the Collaboration Project: Texts for an Untitled Bird Play; Mix Tape: A Collaboration; An Untitled Piece; Untitled Baseball Play; Elliott Hayes Remarks 2005; A Newbie at LMDA Conference \u2705, reconstructed journal entries with mostly unforced bildungsroman narrative structure; What\u27s So Great About New Plays? A position paper on the focus on new plays in the field of dramaturgy with three responses; New Plays in Canada, What\u27s So Great About New Plays--A Thought or Seven; Thoughts on New Plays from an Elliott Hayes Award Acceptance Speech. Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Madeleine Oldhamhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1032/thumbnail.jp

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research