INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2014
Required Readings
The principal text for this course (referred to below as "MRS" for the
authors' initials) is Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and
Heinrich Schütze, An
Introduction to Information Retrieval.
Required Readings for Module 1 (Structure of IR systems)
Required Readings for Module 2 (Evidence from content)
- MRS Chapter 2:
The term vocabulary and postings lists
- MRS Chapter
6. Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model
- Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer, Data-Intensive
Text Processing with MapReduce, Synthesis Lectures on Human
Language Technologies. Read only chapter 4.
Required Readings for Module 3 (Ranked retrieval)
- Stephen Robertson and Hugo Zaragoza, "The
Probabilistic Framework: BM 25 and Beyond," Foundations and
Trends in Information Retrieval, 3(4)333-389, 2009. Read
Chapter 2 and read Chapter 3 through the end of sectrion 3.5.1
(together, these are the length of a typical chapter).
- ChengXiang Zhai, "Statistical
Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Critical
Review," Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval,
2(3)137-213, 2008. Read only Chapter 2.
- Tie-Yan Liu, "Learning
to Rank for Information Retrieval", Foundations and Trends
in Information Retrieval, 3(3), 2009. Read only Chapter 1.
Required Readings for Module 4 (Interaction)
- Max Wilson, Search
User Interface Design, Synthesis Lectures on Information
Concepts, Retrieval and Services, Morgan and Claypool,
2011. Read only Chapter 2.
- Marti Hearst, Search User
Interfaces, Cambridge University Press, 2009. Read only
Chapter 1.
- Ryen W. White and Resa A. Roth, Exploratory
Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm, Synthesis
Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services, 2009.
Read Chapter 4.
Required Readings for Module 5 (Evaluation)
- Donna Harman, "Information Retrieval Evaluation,"Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services, Morgan and Claypool, 2011. Read only Chapter 2.
- Diane Kelly, "Methods
for Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems with Users,"
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 3(1-2)1-224,
2009. Read only Chapter 4.
- Oliver Chapelle, Thorsten Joachims, Filip Radlinski and Yisong
Yue, "Large-Scale
Validation and Analysis of Interleaved Search Evaluation,"
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 30(1)6:1-6:40, 2012.
Required Readings for Module 6 (Web search)
- MRS Chapter
19. Web search basics
- MRS Chapter
20. Web crawling and indexing
- Mounia Lalmas, "Aggregated
Search," in Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (European
Summer School on IR), pp. 109-123, Springer, 2011.
Required Readings for Module 7 (Evidence from behavior)
- Diane Kelly and Jamie Teevan, "Implicit
Feedback for Inferring User Preference, a Bibliography," SIGIR
Forum, 37(2)18-28, 2003.
- MRS Chapter 21
Link analysis
- Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Narayanan Sadagopan, Georges Dupret, Ciya
Liao, Anlei Dong, Yi Chang and Zhaohui Zheng, "Session-Based
Click Features for Recency Ranking," Proceedings of the 24th
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1334-1339, 2010.
Required Readings for Module 8 (Evidence from description)
- National Information Standards Organization, "Understanding
Metadata," 2004.
- Vivien Petras, Toine Bogers, Nicola Ferro and Ivano Masiero,
"Cultural
Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2013 – Multilingual Task Overview,"
CLEF 2013 Evaluation Labs and Workshop Online Working Notes, 17
pages, 2013.
- Marijn Koolen and Jaap Kamps, "The
Importance of Anchor Text for Ad Hoc Search Revisited,"
Proceedings of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 122-129,
2010.
Required Readings for Module 9 (Filtering and recommendation)
Required Readings for Module 10 (Scanned documents)
- Heather Christenson, "HathiTrust:
A Research Library at Web Scale," Library Resources and
Technical Services, 55(2)93-102, 2011.
- Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, and Victor Lavrenko, "A Search
Engine for Historical Manuscripts," SIGIR 2004.
- Chew Lim Tan, Xi Zhang and Linlin Li, "Image
Based Retrieval of Keyword Spotting in Documents," in
Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition,
pp. 805-842, Springer, 2014.
Required Readings for Module 11 (Cross-language search)
- Paul McNamee and James Mayfield, "Comparing
cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading
translation resources," Proceedings of the 25th Annual
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval, pp. 159-166, 2002.
- Jian-Yun Nie, Cross-Language
Information Retrieval, Synthesis Lectures on Human Language
Technologies, Morgan Claypool, 2010. Read only Chapter 3.
- Daniella Petrelli, Stephen Levin, Micheline Beaulieu and Mark
Sanderson, "Which
User Interaction for Cross-Language Information Retrieval?
Design issues and reflections", Journal of the Ametican
Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(5)709-722,
2006.
Required Readings for Module 12 (Speech and music)
- Martha Larson and Gareth J.F. Jones, "Spoken
Content Retrieval: A Survey of Techniques and Technologies,
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 5(4-5)235-422,
2012. Read only Chapter 2.
- Markus Schedl, Emilia Gomez and Julian Urbano, Music
Information Retrieval: Recent Developments and
Applications, Foundations and Trends in Information
Retrieval, 8(2-3)127-261, 2014. Read only Chapter 1.
- Downie, J. Stephen, Andreas F. Ehmann, Mert Bay and M. Cameron
Jones, "The
Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange: Some
Observations and Insights, Advances in Music Information
Retrieval, Vol. 274, pp. 93-115, 2010.
Required Readings for Module 13 (Photographs and video)
- Stefan Ruger, Multimedia
Information Retrieval, Synthesis Lectures on Information
Concepts, Retrieval and Services, Morgan Claypool, 2010. Read
only chapter 3, and only through the end of section 3.2.
- Cees G.M. Snoek and Marcel Worring, Concept-Based
Video Retrieval, Foundations and Trends in Information
Retrieval, 2(4), 2009. Read only Chapter 3.
- Paul Over, Jonathan Fiscus, Greg Sanders, Barbara Shaw, George
Awad, Martial Michel, Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij and Georges
Quenot, "TRECVID-2013
An Overview of the Goals, Tasks, Data, Evaluation Mechanisms
and Metrics," 2013.
Required Readings for Module 14 (Future of IR)
- Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton and Aiden R. Doherty, "Lifelogging:
Personal Big Data," Foundations and Trends in Information
Retrieval 8(1)1-107. Read only chapter 4.
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