UMCP: CLIS: LBSC 878 ISAR: Fall 05: Individual Focus Assignment

LBSC 878 - Information Storage and Retrieval
Spring 2005
Survey Readings

For each suggested topic, one seed reading is suggested. Students may select a topic that does not appear on this list, in which case they will need to find an appropriate seed reading.

The following topics have been selected already:

Search in hyperlinked environments (Fleming)
- Pirolli, P. and S. Card. 1999. Information Foraging. Psychological Review, 106(4)643-675.
Retrieval from collections of recorded speech (Liu)
- Jonathan Foote, "An Overview of Audio Information Retrieval," ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems, 1999, to appear. (preprint available from http://www.fxpal.xerox.com/people/foote/)
Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries (Massey)
- Borgman, C. L. (1997). Multi-media, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual digital libraries, or how do we exchange data in 400 languages? D-Lib Magazine. (available from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june97/06borgman.html
Search as entertainment (Reuter)
- Toms, E. G. (1999). What motivates the browser? Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts (pp. 191-207). Los Angeles: Taylor Graham.
Retrieval from collections of video recordings (Wu)
- Michael Christel and David Martin, "Information Visualization within a Digital Video Library," Journal if Intelligent Information Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, November/December 1998. (available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christel/MyPubs.html)
Finding important patterns in large text collections (Templeton),
- Losiewicz, Paul, Douglas W. Oard, and Ronald Kostoff. 2000. "Mining of Textual Resources for Management of Scientific Research," Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, 15(2).
Answering factual questions (Zhang)
- Harabagiu, Sanda M, Steven J. Maiorano and Marius A. Pasca, "Open-Domain Textual Question Answering Techniques," Natural Language Engineering, 1(1):1-38, 2003. Available at http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/papers/NLE_paper.pdf

The following topics have not (yet) been selected:

Retrieval from collections of character coded texts that contain several languages

Douglas W. Oard and Anne R. Diekema, "Cross Language Information Retrieval," in Martha E. Williams, ed., Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), vol. 33, 1998.

Retrieval from collections of scanned document images

David Doermann, "The Indexing and Retrieval of Document Images: A Survey," University of Maryland, CS-TR-3876, Feb 1998. (available at http://www.cfar.umd.edu./ftp/TRs/CVL-Reports-1998/)

Retrieval from collections of recorded and printed music

Rodger J. McNab, et al., "Towards the Digital Music Library: Tune Retrieval From Acoustic Input," in Proceedings of Digital Libraries '96, pp. 11-18. (available at http://www.nzdl.org/publications/1996/RJM-LAS-IHW-CLH-SJC96.pdf)

Retrieval from collections of recorded speech

Jonathan Foote, "An Overview of Audio Information Retrieval," ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems, 1999, to appear. (preprint available from http://www.fxpal.xerox.com/people/foote/)

Retrieval from collections of photographic images

Chad Carson, et al., "Blobworld: A System for Region-based Image Indexing and Retrieval," Submitted to Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems, June 1999. (preprint available at http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~carson/papers/visual99.html)

Finding people that possess the requisite expertise to help solve some problem ("people retrieval")

Ronald N. Kostoff, "Database Tomography for Technical Intelligence: A Roadmap of the Near-Earth Space Science and Technology Literature," Information Processing and Management, vol. 34, no. 1, 1988. (available in the Paul Wasserman library)

Find the context(s) in which the desired information was generated

McKemmish, Sue and Dagmar Parer, "Towards Frameworks for Standardizing Recordkeeping Metadata," Archives and Manuscripts, May 1998. (available at http://www.sims.monash.edu.au/research/rcrg/)

Retrieval from collections of maps

Hanan Samet and Aya Soffer, "MAGELLAN: Map Acquisition of GEographic Labels by Legend ANalysis," International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 89-101, June 1998. (Available at http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs.html)

Inferring Interests from Interaction

Kelly, D. and Teevan, J. (2003). Implicit feedback for inferring user preference. SIGIR Forum. 37(2): 18-28 (available on campus at http://www.acm.org/dl)

LBSC 878 - Information Storage and Retrieval Spring 2005 Survey Readings

LBSC 878 - Information Storage and Retrieval
Spring 2005
Survey Readings