SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNED READINGS (expect revisions)
20 Jan Introduction to the course. Introduction to IR. Operational and experimental IR systems.
Readings for next week: Hersh, Chapters 1 and 2. In Sparck Jones & Willett, "Overall introduction", and Chapter Two, "Introduction". Belkin, N.J. (1980) Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. Canadian Journal of Information Science, v. 5: 133-143. Luhn, H.P. (1961) The automatic derivantion of information retrieval encodements from machine-readable texts. In A. Kent, ed., Information retrieval and machine translation, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 1021-1028. New York: Interscience. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett , pp. 21-24.. At least one of the following: Belkin & Vickery (1985) Chapters 1 and 2; Ingwersen (1992), Chapter 3; the introductory chapters to any of: Lancaster (1978); Lancaster & Warner (1993); Meadow (1992); van Rijsbergen (1979); Salton & McGill (1983).
Readings for next week: In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 3: the "Introduction". Belkin, N.J. (1978) Information concepts for information science. Journal of Documentation, v. 34, no.1: 55-85. Hutchins, W.J. (1978) The concept of "aboutness" in subject indexing. Aslib Proceedings, vol. 30: 172-181. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 93-97. Saracevic, T. (1975) Relevance: a review of and a framework for the thinking on the topic. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 26: 321-343. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 143-165.
Readings for next week: Belkin, N.J. (1993) Interaction with texts: Information retrieval as information-seeking behavior. In: Information Retrieval `93: Von der modellierung zur Anwendung. Konstanz: Universitaetsverlag Konstanz, 55-66. Belkin N.J. & Croft, W.B. (1992) Information filtering and information retrieval: Two sides of the same coin? Communications of the ACM, v. 35 no. 12: 29-38.
Readings for next week: In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 5, the "Introduction". Cooper, W.S. Getting beyond Boole. Information Processing and Management, vol. 24: 243-248. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 265-267. Robertson, S.E. The probability ranking principle in IR. Journal of Documentation. vol 33: 294-304. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 281-286.Salton, G., Wong, A. & Yang, C.S. (1975) A vector space model for automatic indexing. Communications of the ACM, vol 18: 613-620. Also in Sparck Jones and Willett, pp. 273-280. Saracevic, T. (1996). Interactive models in information retrieval (IR): Progress, problems, proposal. In Proceedings of the 1996 ASIS Annual Meeting. Medford, NJ: Learned Information. Turtle, H. & Croft, W.B. (1990) Inference networks for document retrieval. In SIGIR 90. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM, 1-24. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, 287-298.
Readings for next week: Hersh, Chapters 5, 8, 9. In: Sparck Jones& Willett, from Chapter 6, the "Introduction" (especially the section on Indexing). Foskett, D.J. (1980) Thesaurus. In A. Kent, J. Lancour & J.E. Daily, eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, v. 30, pp. 416-462. New York: Marcel Dekker. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 111-134. Salton, G. & Buckley, C. (1988) Term weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval. Information Processing and Management, vol. 24: 513-523. Also in Sparck Jones & Willett, pp. 323-328. Williamson, N.J. (1984) Subject access in online environments. In Advances in Librarianship, v. 13: 49-97.
Readings for next week. Hersh, Chapters 4, 6. In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 6 the article by Griffiths, Luckhurst & Willett; from Chapter 8, the article by Hayes, Knecht and Cellio and the article by Rau. Belkin, N.J. & Croft, W.B. (1987) Retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 22: 109-145
Readings for next week: Kantor, P. (1994) Information retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v. 29: 53-90.
Readings for next meeting: Hersh, 3, 10. In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 3, the article by Daniels, Brooks & Belkin, from Chapter 7, the article by Harman. Bates, M. (1990) Where should the person stop and the information search interface start? Information Processing and Management, v 26(5): 575-591.
Readings for next meeting: Belkin, N.J., Marchetti, P.-G., Cool, C. (1993) BRAQUE: Design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 29 (3): 325-344. Nowell, L.T., France, R.K., Hix, D., Heath, L.S., Fox, E.A. (1996) Visualizing search results: Some alternatives to query-document similarity. In SIGIR 96. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM, 67-75. Williamson, C., Shneiderman, B. (1992) The Dynamic HomeFinder: Evaluating dynamic queries in a real-estate information exploration system. In SIGIR 92. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM, 338-346.PROJECT TOPICS DUE.
Readings for next week: Hersh, Chapters 3, 7. In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 4, the "Introduction" and the articles by Saracevic, et al., Lancaster, and Harman. Su, L. (1992) Evaluation measures for interactive information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 28(4): 503-516.
Readings for next week: In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 7, the "Introduction" and the articles by McCune, Tong & Dean, and by Tenopir & Cahn. Croft, W.B. (1995) What do people want from information retrieval? D-Lib Magazine, November. Dalrymple, P.W., Roderer, N.K. (1994) Database access systems. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, v 29: 137-178.
Readings for next meeting: Hersh, Chapters 12, 13. In Sparck Jones & Willett, from Chapter 8, the "Introduction" and any other article there that looks interesting; Chapter 9.
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