LBSC 796/INFM 718R: Readings

The required textbook is Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, 1999, Addison Wesley. There is a website associated with the book, which has a few chapters online.

Note that all readings are to be completed before class.

Quick links: Session 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

Session 1: Introduction (January 30)

• Chapter 1 (Introduction) in Modern Information Retrieval. If do not have the book yet, this chapter can be found on-line.
• Tefko Saracevic. (1999) Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50(12), 1051-1063.

Session 2: Evaluation (February 6)

• Chapter 3 (Retrieval Evaluation) in Modern Information Retrieval.
• Stefano Mizzaro. (1999) How Many Relevances in Information Retrieval? Interacting With Computers, 10(3), 305--322.

Session 3: Boolean and Vector Space Models (February 13)

• Chapter 2 (Modeling) in Modern Information Retrieval.

Session 4: Probabilistic Models (February 21)

• Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen de Vries. (2000) Relating the New Language Models of Information Retrieval to the Traditional Retrieval Models. Technical Report, TR-CTIT-00-09, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology.
• David R. H. Miller and Tim Leek and Richard M. Schwartz. (1999) A Hidden Markov Model Information Retrieval System. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 1999).
• Go back and re-read 2.4 through 2.5.3 in Modern Information Retrieval. The goal here is to see if you can better decipher the math given a better understanding of boolean and vector space models.

Session 5: Indexing (February 27)

• Chapter 4 (Query Languages) in Modern Information Retrieval.
• Section 1 and 2 of Chapter 7 (Text Operations) in Modern Information Retrieval.
• Chapter 1, 2, and 4 in Chapter 8 (Indexing and Searching) in Modern Information Retrieval.

Session 6: Representing the Meaning of Documents (March 6)

• George A. Miller. (1995) WordNet: A Lexical Database for English. Communications of the ACM, 38(11):39-41. (The paper is accessible via the ACM Digital Library; you need to be on campus.)
• Alan. F. Smeaton. (1995) Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. Tutorial Presented at the Second European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR'95). Start from Section 3: Overview of NLP (page 17).

Session 8: Relevance Feedback (March 27)

• Chapter 5 (Query Operations) in Modern Information Retrieval.

Session 9: User Interaction (April 3)

• Chapter 10 (User Interfaces and Visualization) in Modern Information Retrieval.

Session 10: Clustering, Categorization, and Filtering (April 10)

• Efthimis N. Efthimiadis and Stephen E. Robertson. (1989) Feedback and Interaction in Information Retrieval. In Charles Oppenheim, ed., Perspectives in Information Management. London: Butterworth.
• Gerard Salton and Chris Buckley. (1990) Improving Retrieval Performance by Relevance Feedback. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41(4):288-297.

Session 11: Multimedia and Cross-Language Retrieval (April 17)

• Daqing He, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kareem Darwish, Philip Resnik, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Michael Nossal, Michael Subotin, Anton Leuski. (2003) Making MIRACLEs: Interactive Translingual Search for Cebuano and Hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2(3):219-244. (The paper is accessible via the ACM Digital Library; you need to be on campus.)
• Vekant N. Gudivada and Vijay V. Raghavan. (1997) Modeling and Retrieving Images by Content. Information Processing and Management, 33(4)427-452. (The paper is accessible via ScienceDirect; you need to be on campus.)
• Howard D. Wactlar, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Michael G. Christel, Ricky A. Houghton, Andreas M. Olligschlaeger. (2000) Complementary Video and Audio Analysis for Broadcast News Archives. Communications of the ACM, 43(2):42-47. (The paper is accessible via the ACM Digital Library; you need to be on campus.)

Session 12: Question Answering (April 24)

• Lynette Hirschman and Robert Gaizauskas. (2001) Natural Language Question Answering: The View from Here. Natural Language Engineering, 7(4), 275-300.
• Ellen M. Voorhees. (2003) Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track. (2003) Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (HLT/NAACL 2003).
• John Prager, Eric Brown, and Anni Coden. (2000) Question-Answering by Predictive Annotation. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2000).
• Eric Brill, Jimmy Lin, Michele Banko, Susan Dumais, and Andrew Ng. Data-Intensive Question Answering. Proceedings of the Tenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2001).

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