LIS 7610/CSC 7481 Readings

Last update: June 4 2009.

Some other books on information retrieval:

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Rubiero-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley, 1999.
• Ian H. Witten, Alaitair Moffat, and Timmothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes, Morgan Kaufmann, Second Edition, 1999.
• David A. Grossman and Ophir Frieder, Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics, Kluwer Academic, 2004.
• William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (ed.), Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice-Hall, 1992.
• Tomek Strzalkowski (ed.), Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 1999.
• Christopher D. Manning and Heinrich Schuetze, Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press, 2000.
• Karen Sparck-Jones and Peter Willet (ed.), Readings in Information Retrieval, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997.
• David C. Blair, Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier Science, 1990.

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• Required Readings:

  • MRS Chapter 1: IR Using the Boolean Model

• Recommended Readings:

  • Tefko Saracevic, (1999) Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12)1051-1063.
  • David C. Blair, Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier Science, 1990. Chapter 1, pages 1-10.

• Required Readings:

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

• Recommended Readings:

  • Christopher Manning and Heinrich Schuetze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Chapter 5 (Collocations), MIT Press, 1999. Available from the book's Web site.
  • George A. Miller. (1995) WordNet: lexical database for English.. Communications of the ACM, 38(11), 39-41. Also available from the ACM Digital 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.
  • Donna Harman "Inverted Files," in William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice Hall, 1992, Chapter 3. Available at LSU Middleton Library.

• Required Readings:

  • 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.

• Recommended Readings:

  • S.E. Robertson et al, "Okapi at TREC-3," Proceedings of the Third Text Retrieval Conference, 1994. Available on the TREC Web site.
  • Donna Harman "Ranking Algorithms," in William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice Hall, 1992, Chapter 14. Available at LSU Middleton Library.
  • Amit Singhal, "Pivoted Document Length Normalization," SIGIR 1996. Available through the ACM Digital Library.
  • James Allan, ed. "Challlenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling", SIGIR Forum, 37(1)31-47, Spring, 2003. Available from SIGIR or ACM Digital Library.
  • David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, and Richard M. Schwartz, "A Hidden Markov Model Information Retrieval System," SIGIR 99. Available from the ACM Digital Library.
  • W. B. Croft and J. Lafferty, ed., Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 2003.

• Required Readings:

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

• Recommended Readings:

  • Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card, "Information Foraging," Psychological Review. 106(4), 643-675, 1999. Available throught LSU Libraries database search PsycInfo.
  • Robert S. Taylor, "The Process of Asking Questions," American Documentation, 13(4)391-396, 1962. (Available from LSU Libraries, search for this journal in "EJOURNALS.")
  • Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Stephen E. Robertson. (1989) Feedback and Interaction in Information Retrieval. In Charles Oppenheim, ed., Perspectives in Information Management. London: Butterworth.

• Required Readings:

  • MRS Chapter 8: Evaluation in Information Retrieval
  • 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

• Recommended Readings:

  • 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.
  • Chris Buckley and Ellen M. Voorhees, "Evaluating Evaluation Measure Stability", SIGIR 2000. Available through the ACM Digital Library.
  • Ellen M. Voorhees and Chris Buckley, "The Effect of Topic Set Size on Retrieval Experiment Error," SIGIR 2002, Available through the ACM Digital Library.
  • R. Mamantha, Ao Feng and James Allan, "A Critical Evaluation of TDT's Cost Function," SIGIR 2002. Available from the ACM Digital Library.
  • Stefano Mizzaro. (1999) How Many Relevances in Information Retrieval? Interacting With Computers, 10(3)305-322.
  • Andrew H. Turpin and William Hersh, "Why Batch and User Evaluations Do Not Give the Same Results," SIGIR 2001. Available from the ACM Digital Library.

• Required Readings:

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

• Recommended Readings:

  • Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Michele Banko, Susan Dumais, and Andrew Ng. Data-Intensive Question Answering. Proceedings of the Tenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2001).

• Required Readings:

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

• Recommended Readings:

  • 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.
  • 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 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

• Required Readings:

  • 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

• Recommended Readings:

  • 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

• Required Readings:

  • 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.

• Recommended Readings:

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

• Required Readings:

  • 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)

• Recommended Readings:

  • Douglas W. Oard, "The State of the Art in Text Filtering," User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2007.

• Required Readings:

  • 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 campus from IEEE Xplore.
  • 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.

• Recommended Readings:

  • 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.

Readings for Session 13 (CLIR)

• Required Readings:

  • 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, 41(3), 2005. Available from Levow (.ps) or available on campus from LSU Libraries Electronic Journals Service.

• Recommended Readings:

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

• Required Readings:

  • 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.

• Recommended Readings:

  • 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.