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LBSC 796/CMSC 828o
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2004
Recommended Readings

• Class cancelled!

• David C. Blair, Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier Science, 1990. Chapter 1, pages 1-10 only. On reserve in the Paul Wasserman Library.
• Sparck-Jones, Karen, "What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval?," in Tomek Strzalkowski (ed.), Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 1-24. On reserve in the Paul Wasserman Library.
• Jacquemin, C. and E. Tzoukermann. "NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy between Morphology, Lexicon, and Syntax," in T. Strzalkowski (ed.), Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 1999, Chapter 2, pp. 25-70. On reserve in the Paul Wasserman Library.
• Prager, John, Eric Brown, Anni Coden and Dragomir Radev. "Question-Answering by Predictive Annotation," in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval July 24-28, 2000, Athens Greece, pp. 184-191. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.

• Amit Singhal, "Pivoted Document Length Normalization," SIGIR 1996. Available on campus through the ACM Digital Library.
• S.E. Robertson et al, "Okapi at TREC-3," Proceedings of the Third Text Retrieval Conference, 1994. Available on the TREC Web site.

• W. B. Croft and J. Lafferty, ed., Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 2003. On reserve in the Paul Wasserman Library.
• David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, and Richard M. Schwartz, "A Hidden Markov Model Information Retrieval System," SIGIR 99. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.

• Diane Kelly and Jamie Teevan, "Implicit Feedback for Inferring User Preference: A Bibliography," SIGIR Forum, 37(2)18-28, Fall 2003. Available from the SIGIR Forum Web site.
• Jon M. Kleinberg, "Authoratative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment," Journal of the ACM, 46(5)604-632. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.
• Douglas W. Oard and Jinmook Kim, "Modeling Information Content Using Observable Behavior," in Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Washington, November, 2001. Available from Doug Oard's Web site

• Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Stomple, "The Open Archives Initiative: Building a Low-Barrier Interoperability Framework," Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA, June 2001, pp. 54-62. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.

• Robert S. Taylor, "The Process of Asking Questions," American Documentation, 13(4)391-396, 1962.
• Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card, "Information Foraging," Psychological Review. 106(4)643-675, 1999. May be available on campus through Science Direct

• Chris Buckley and Ellen M. Voorhees, "Evaluating Evaluation Measure Stability", SIGIR 2000. Available on campus through the ACM Digital Library
• Ellen M. Voorhees and Chris Buckley, "The Effect of Topic Set Size on Retrieval Experiment Error," SIGIR 2002, Available on campus through the ACM Digital Library
• R. Mamantha, Ao Feng and James Allan, "A Critical Evaluation of TDT's Cost Function," SIGIR 2002. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library
• Andrew H. Turpin and William Hersh, "Why Batch and User Evaluations Do Not Give the Same Results," SIGIR 2001. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.

• Donna Harman "Inverted Files," in William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice Hall, 1992, Chapter 3.

• Daqing He, et al., "Making MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi," ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Retrieval, 2(2-3). Available soon from the ACM Digital Library.

• Tseng, Y.-H. and Oard, D. W., Document Image Retrieval Techniques for Chinese. In Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, Columbia, MD, 2001. Available from Doug Oard's Web site

• Jonathan Foote, "An Overview of Audio Information Retrieval," ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems, 7(1)2-10, 1999. Available from CiteSeer
• John S. Garofolo, Cedric G. P. Auzanne and Ellen M. Voorhees, "The TREC Spoken Document Retrieval Track: A success story," in Proceedings of the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference, 1999, pp. 107-130. Available from the TREC Web site
• Rodger J. McNabb, Lloyd A. Smith, Ian H. Witten, and Clare L. Henderson, "Tune Retrieval in the Multimedia Library," Multimedia Tools and Applications, 10(2-3)113-132, 2000. Available from the New Zealand Digital Library Web site.

• Vekant N. Gudivada and Vijay V. Raghavan, "Modeling and Retrieving Images by Content," Information Processing and Management, 33(4)427-452, 1997. Available on campus from Science Direct
• Howard Wactlar et al., "Complementary Audio and Video Analysis for Broadcast News Archives," Communicatuions of the ACM, 43(2)42-47, 2000. Available on campus from the ACM Digital Library.