Reading Assignment

Each student will be assigned one of these articles, and has to prepares a 25-30 minutes talk with PowerPoint slides to fill the second and the third hour of the class. The first presentation begins on the 25th of June, 1998.

  1. Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in a Distributed Information Retrieval System, C.L. Viles and J.C. French, Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, p. 12-20.
  2. Parallel Text Retrieval on a High Performance Supercomputer Using the Vector Space Model, P. Efraimidis et al., Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, p. 58-66.
  3. Integrating IR and RDBMS using Cooperative Indexing, S. DeFazio et al., Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, p. 84-92.
  4. Combining Multiple Evidence from Different Properties of Weighting Schemes, J.H. Lee, Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, p. 180-188.
  5. A Case-Based Approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval, J.J. Daniels and E.L. Rissland, Proceedings of the SIGIR'95, p. 238-245.
  6. Querying across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval, D.A. Hull and G. Grefenstette, Proceedings of the SIGIR'96, p. 49-57.
  7. Incremental Relevance Feedback for Information Filtering, J. Allan, Proceedings of the SIGIR'96, p. 270-278.
  8. Co-operative Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries, see http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/~cs0msa/bcsir96.htm.
  9. The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System, see more detail at http://harvest.transarc.com.
  10. The DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE, see http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm.
  11. The MetaCrawler Arditecture for Resourse Aggregation on the Web, see http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/speed/papers/ieee/ieee-metacrawler/ieee-metacrawler.html.
  12. Search Engine Watch: News, Tips and More about Search Engine, see http://searchenginewatch.com.
  13. The Web Robots, see http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html.
  14. Letizia: An Agent that Assists Web Browsing, see http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/Letizia.html.
  15. Using an N-Gram Based Document Representation with a Vector Processing Retrieval Model, W.B. Cavnar, Proceedings of the TREC-3, 1995.
  16. WebWatcher Project at CMU, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-6/web-agent/www/project-home.html

Writing Assignment

Summarizing all of the following articles and writing your own one based on their content. You can propose any title for your sumarization as you want. Your summarization must be written in an article-like style, ie. it should be composed of abstarct, Introduction, ..., and ended with conclusion and perspective, and complementary references. This summarization article must be at least 15 pages, 12 pt. TIME font, single space, single column. Do not forget that this assignment should be sent before the 30th of July, 1988.
 

  1. The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts, H.P. Luhn, The IBM Journal, April 1958.
  2. Relevance Weighting of Search Terms, S.E. Robertson and K. Sparck Jones, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, May-June 1976.
  3. An Information Theoretic Measure of Term Specificity, S.K.M. Wong and Y.Y. Yao, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, January 1992.
  4. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Information Retrieval, K. Sparck Jones, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, September 1991.
  5. The SMART Vector Space Retrieval System, see chapter 4 in Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval, G. Salton and M.J. McGrill, McGraw-Hill 1983.
  6. Efficient Probabilistic Inference for Text Retrieval, H.R. Turtle and W.B. Croft, Intelligent Text and Image Handling, Lichnerowicz edition, 1991.
  7. Learned Vector Space Models for Document Retrieval, W.R. Caid et al., Information Processing & Management, Vol. 31(3), 1995.