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)
- Cross-Cultural Usability for Digital Libraries (Massey)
- 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)
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
- Retrieval from collections of recorded and printed music
- Retrieval from collections of recorded speech
- Retrieval from collections of photographic images
- 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
- 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)