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LBSC 796/INFM 718R
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2007
Required Readings

The lecture notes are available on a supplimental password protected readings page. Lecture notes for a specific topic will be ready at least two weeks before that session.

Downloading readings from the Web may require Microsoft Word or Acrobat Reader, depending on the format.

• Lecture Notes: A Process Model for Information Retrieval
• MRS Chapter 1: IR Using the Boolean Model

• MRS Chapter 2: The dictionary and postings lists
• MRS Chapter 3: Tolerant retrieval

• MRS Chapter 6. Scoring and Term Weighting
• MRS Chapter 7. Vector Space Retrieval
• Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen P. de Vries, "Relating the New Language Models of Information Retrieval to the Traditional Retrieval Models," Technical Report TR-CTIT-00-09. Available from CiteSeer.

• Marti Hearst, "User Interfaces and Visualization," in Modern Information Retrieval, Chapter 10, Addison-Wesley Longman, 1999. Available from the book's Web site.

• Lecture Notes: Evaluation (Chapter 4)
• MRS Chapter 8: Evaluation in Information Retrieva
• Ellen M. Voorhees, "Variations in Relevance Judgments and the Measurement of Retrieval Effectiveness," Information Processing and Management, 36(5)697-716. Available on campus from Science Direct

• MRS Chapter 19. Web Search Basics
• MRS Chapter 20. Web Crawling and Indexing

• Adversarial IR. Available at http://www.reviews.com/hottopic/hottopic_essay_06.cfm
• MRS Chapter 21 Link Analysis
• Diane Kelly and Jamie Teevan, "Implicit Feedback for Inferring User Preference, a Bibliography," SIGIR Forum, 37(2)18-28, 2003.

• David Doermann, "The Indexing and Retrieval of Document Images: A Survey", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 70(3)287-298, 1998. Available on campus from Science Direct.
• Toni M. Rath, R. Manmatha, and Victor Lavrenko, "A Search Engine for Historical Manuscripts," SIGIR 2004. Available from CIIR<

• Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall and Tim Berners-Lee, "The Semantic Web Revisited," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 12(3)96-101, 2006.
• Diane Hillman, "National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Metadata Primer," Web publication, 2003. Available from the Open Archives Initiative Web site.

• MRS Chapter 9: Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
• Joshua Goodman, Gordon V. Comack and David Heckerman, Spam and the Ongoing Battle for the Inbox, Communications of the ACM, 50(2)24-33, 2007. (available on campus from the ACM Digital Library)

• William Byrne et al, "Automatic Recognition of Spontaneous Speech for Access to Multilingual Oral History Archives," IEEE Transations on Audio and Speech Processing, 2004. Available on the password protected readings page.
• Elias Pampalk, Simon Dixon and Gerhard Widmer, "Exploring Music Collections by Browsing Different Views," in International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 2003. Available on the ISMIR 2003 Web site.

• Lecture Notes: Cross-Language IR
• Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Resnik, "Dictionary-Based Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval," Information Processing and Management, 2005. Available from the password protected readings page.

• Chad Carson, Serge Belongie, Hayit Greenspan and Jitendra Malik, "Blobworld: Image Segmentation Using Expectation-Maximization and Its Application to Image Querying," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(8)1026-1038, 2002. Available on campus from IEEE Explore.
• Alan Smeaton, Wessel Kraaij and Paul Over, "TRECVID-2003 Video Retrieval Evaluation Overview," Powerpoint slides, 2003. Available from the TRECVID Web site.