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

The text for this course is Douglas W. Oard, Interactive Information Retrieval: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, pre-publication draft, 2004. The text will likely be updated at several points in the semester, and the latest version will be available on a supplimental password protected readings page.

• Class cancelled!

• Text chapters 1 and, through the end of section 2.1.
• Christopher Manning and Heinrich Schuetze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Chapter 5 (Collocations), MIT Press, 1999. Available from the book's Web site.

• Text chapter 2, section 2.2.
• Donna Harman "Ranking Algorithms," in William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice Hall, 1992, Chapter 14. Available through electronic reserves.

• 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.
• James Allan, ed. "Challlenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling", SIGIR Forum, 37(1)31-47, Spring, 2003. Available from SIGIR.

• Text, chapter 2, section 2.3.
• Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd, "Page Rank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web," Stanford Digital Library Working Paper SIDL-WP-1999-0120, 1998. Available from CiteSeer.

• Text, remainder of chapter 2.
• Diane Hillman, "National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Metadata Primer," Web publication, 2003. Available from the Open Archives Initiative Web site.

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

• Text, chapter 4.
• 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

• Text, chapter 3.
• Ian H. Witten, Alastair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes, Morgan Kaufmann, Second Edition, 1999, Chapter 3 (Indexing). Available through electronic reserves.

• Text, chapter 6.
• Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, Philip Resnik, "Dictionary-Based Techniques for Cross-Language Information Retrieval," Information Processing and Management, to appear, 2004. Available from the password protected readings page.

• Kareem Darwish and Douglas W. Oard, "Term Selection for Searching Large Collections of Printed Arabic Documents," in review, 2004. Available from the password protected readings page.
• 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.

• William Byrne et al, "Automatic Recognition of Spontaneous Speech for Access to Multilingual Oral History Archives," in review, 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.

• 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.