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LBSC 878 - Information Storage and Retrieval
Spring 2005
Optional Reading List
This list identifies additional readings that students may find useful
for each session. These readings will not be on reserve in the Paul
Wasserman Library.
Good books to read any time:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, ed., 1999. Modern
Information Retrieval, Addison-Wesley, New York.
- Soergel, Dagobert. 1985. Organizing Information: Principles of
Database and Retrieval Systems Academic Press, San Diego.
- Sparck-Jones, Karen and Peter WIllett, ed. 1997. Readings in
Information Retrieval. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco.
Optional readings for Week 1 (relevance):
- Soergel, Dagobert. 1994. "Indexing and Retrieval Performance:
The Logical Evidence," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, vol. 45, no. 8. Read pp. 589-590 only.
- Wilson, Patrick. 1973. "Situational Relevance," Information
Storage and Retrieval, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 457-471.
- Saracevic, T. 1975. "Relevance: A Review of and a framework
for the thinking on the notion in information science."
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 26(6):
321-343.
Optional readings for Week 2 (knowledge representation):
- Atkinson, Malcolm, et al. 1989. "The Object Oriented Database
System Manifesto," Proceedings of the First International
Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, Kyoto,
December. Available from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/OODBMS/Manifesto/
- Lehmann, Fritz. 1992. "Semantic Networks," Computers &
Mathematics with Applications, vol. 23, no. 2-5, pp. 1-50.
- Riloff, Ellen and Mark Schmelzenbach. 1998. "An Emperical
Approach to Conceptual Case Frame Acquisition," Proceedings of the
Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Montreal, August. Available
at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/publications.html
- Jennings, Andrew and Hideykui Higuchi. 1993. "A User Model
Neural Network for a Personal News Service," User Modeling and
User-Adapted Interaction, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 1-25.
- Elman, J. L., Language as a dynamical system.
in R. F. Port and T. VanGelder (eds),
Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of
Cognition,
MIT Press, 1995, pages 195-226.
- Lenat, D., "CYC: A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge
Infrastructure", Communications of the ACM, 38(11),
1995, 33-38.
ACM
- * Daniels, Jody J. and Edwina L. Rissland. 1996. "The
Synergistic
Application of CBR to IR," Artificial Intelligence
Review, vol. 10, pp. 441-475.
Optional readings for Week 3 (indexing):
- Soergel, Dagobert. 1997. Functions of a Thesaurus /
Classification / Ontological Knowledge Base, unpublished
manuscript, October. Available at http://www.clis.umd.edu/courses/878/spring99/functclass.pdf.
- Salton, Gerard and Chris Buckley. 1989. A Comparison Between
Statistically and Syntactically Generated Term Phrases. TR89-1027,
Cornell University, Computer Science Department. Available at http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/
- Sanderson, Mark. 1994. "Word Sense Disambiguation and
Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Dublin, Ireland, July. pp 142-151. Available at http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/cv/publications/papers/
- Smadja, Frank. 1993. "Retrieving Collocations from Text:
Xtract," Computational Linguistics, vol. 19, no. 1.
- Lin, Dekang. 1998. "Using Syntactic Dependency as Local Context
to Resolve Word Sense Ambiguity," Proceedings of ACL-97,
Madrid, July. Available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/papers.htm
- Lin, Dekang. 1998. "Extracting Collocations from Text
Corpora,", in First Workshop on Computational Terminology,
Montreal, August. Available at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/papers.htm
- Resnik, Philip and David Yarowsky. 1997. "A perspective on
word sense disambiguation methods and their evaluation," ACL SIGLEX
Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics, Washington
DC, April. Available at http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/pubs.html
Optional readings for Week 4 (query formulation):
- Buckland, M. et al. 1999. "Mapping Entry Vocabulary to
Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies," D-Lib Magazine, vol. 5,
no. 1, January. Available at http://www.dlib.org
- Losee, Robert M. 1994. "Upper Bounds for Retrieval Perfromance
and Their Use Measuring Performance and Generating Optimal Boolean
Queries: Can it Get Any Better Than This?," Information Processing &
Management, 30(2), pp. 193-204.
- Salton, Gerard and Chris Buckley. 1988. Improving Retrieval
Performance by Relevance Feedback. TR88-898, Cornell University,
Computer Science Department. Available at http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/
- Stevens, Curt. 1992. Knowledge-Based Assistance for
Accessing Large, Poorly Structured Information Spaces,
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Department of
Computer Science. Read only chapter 8. Available at http://www.holodeck.com/curt/mypapers.html.
Optional readings for Week 5 (matching):
- Mandala, Rila, Tokunaga Takenobu and Tanaka Hozumi. 1998. "The
Use of WordNet in Information Retrieval," in Proceedings of the
COLING/ACL Workshop on Usage of WordNet in Natural Language
Processing Systems, Montreal.
- Turtle, Howard and W. Bruce Croft. 1992. "A Comparison of Text
Retrieval Models," Computer Journal, 35(3). pp. 279-290.
- Page, Lawrence, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd.
1998. "The PageRank Citation Ranking:
Bringing Order to the Web," Stanford University Technical
Report 1999-66, Available here.
Optional readings for Week 6 (browsing):
- Buckland, Michael and Christian Plaunt. 1997. "Selecting
Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data," in
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research,
Development & Practice in Digital Libraries, Tsukuba,
Japan, November. Available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/oasis/oasisbib.html
(link broken)
- Cutting, D. R. 1992; Karger, D. R.; Pederson, J. O.; Tukey, J. W.
Scatter/gather: a cluster-based approach to browsing large document
collections. Proceedings of ACM/SIGIR. 1992: 318-29.
- Xia Lin - Self-organizing maps as graphical interfaces for
information retrieval. Dissertation. Maryland 1993.
- Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Context and Page Analysis for
Improved Web Search, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 2, Number
4, July/August 1998, pp. 38-46.
- William A. Woods. Conceptual Indexing: A Better Way to
Organize Knowledge. Palo Alto, CA: Sun Microsystems; 1997
April. 91 p. = TR-97-61
- Hearst, Marti A. and Jan O. Pederson. 1996. "Reexamining the
Cluster Hypothesis: Scatter/Gather on Retrieval Results," in
Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM/SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval. Available on campus at http://www.acm.org/dl
- Hetzler, Beth, et al. 1998. "Multi-faceted Insight through
Interoperable Visual Information Analysis Paradigms," in
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Information
Visualization,
pp. 137-144 and 161. Available at http://multimedia.pnl.gov:2080/infoviz/gallery.html
Optional readings for Week 7 (evaluation):
- Hersh, William, Susan Price, Dale Kraemer, Benjamin Chan,
Lynetta Sacherek, and Daniel Olson. 1999. "A Large-Scale Comparison
of Boolean vs. Natural Language Searching for the TREC-7 Interactive
Track" in Proceedings of the Seventh Text REtrieval
Conference. Available at http://trec.nist.gov.
- Soergel, Dagobert. 1994. "Indexing and Retrieval Performance:
The Logical Evidence," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, vol. 45, no. 8.
- Voorhees, Ellen M. and Donna Harman. 2000. "Overview of the
Eighth Text REtrieval Conference," in Proceedings of the
Eighth Text REtrieval Conference. Available at http://trec.nist.gov.
Optional readings for Week 8: (surveys)
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