Professor (II) of Information Science, and Director of the Ph.D. Program
School of Communication, Information and Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick NJ 08901-1071
email: nick@belkin.rutgers.edu
url: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~belkin/belkin.html
tel: +1 732 932 8585 fax: +1 732 932 6916

Lucille Kelling Henderson Memorial Lecturer, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.

American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Award for Excellence in Research in Information Science, 1997.

ACM Recognition of Service Award, 1997, 1992, 1989.

ASIS Certificate of Recognition, 1997.

Fulbright Research and Lecturing Fellowship (University of Tampere, Finland); August - December 1996;

University of Washington Graduate School of Library and Information Science Alumni Association, Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1996.

SCILS Excellence in Research Award, 1996.

ASIS Certificate of Appreciation, 1991.

American Society for Information Science (ASIS) Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award, 1990

Distinguished Research Seminar Speaker, OCLC, February 1988.

Honorable mention, ASIS Information Science Book of the Year Award (with A. Vickery), 1985.

ISI Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Information Science (with T. Seeger and G. Wersig), 1984.

Association for Computing Machinery, Member 1985-date

American Society for Information Science, Member, 1970-date

Program Chair for the Americas, 2000 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Athens, 2000.

Program Committee, 2000 ACM Digital Libraries Conference, San Antonio, 2000.

Program Chair for Americas and Asia, 1997 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Princeton, 1997.

Program Committee, 1996 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Zürich, 1996.

Organizing Committee, ACM International Conferences on Digital Libraries, 1995-date.

Program Committee, 1995 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, 1995.

Program Committee, 1994 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, 1994.

Program Chair for Americas and Asia, 1992 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Copenhagen, 1992.

Technical Program Chair, 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC., 1991.

Program Committee, 1991 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Chicago, 1991.

Program Chair, 1989 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Cambridge, MA, 1989.

Program Committee, Workshop on Access to Digital Libraries, San Antonio, Texas 1994.

Program Committee, Digital Libraries Workshop, Rutgers University, 1994.

Organizing Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Information Systems, Singapore, 1991.

Program Chair, SIG UOI Program for the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Atlanta, 1988.

Chair, Organizing and Program Committee, Workshop on Distributed Expert-Based Information Systems, Rutgers University, March 1987.

Program Committee and Organizing Committee, Sixth International Research Forum in Information Science, Frascati, 1985

Program Committee, Third Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science, Risø, Denmark, 1985.

Program Committee, Fifth International Research Forum in Information Science, Heidelberg, 1983

Interdisciplinary Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Western Ontario, 1979

Honorary Secretary, Organizing Committee, First International Research Forum in Information Science, London, 1975.

9.98-date Associate Editor, Information Processing and Management

6.96-date Information Retrieval

1.90-1.94 Library Quarterly

1.87-12.94 Journal of Information Science

9.86-9.93 Ablex Communication and Information Science Series

1.85-date Information Processing and Management

1.83-1.97 Linguistic Calculation

Interaction in Information Systems: A Review of Research from Document Retrieval to Knowledge-Based Systems. London, The British Library Board, 1985, 250 pp. Nicholas J. Belkin and Alina Vickery.

BELKIN, N.J.(1998) An overview of results from Rutgers’ investigations of interactive information retrieval. In: Visualizing subject access for 21^st century information resources, edited by P.A. Cochrane and E.H. Johnson. Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 45-62.

BELKIN, N.J., ODDY, R.N. & BROOKS, H.M. (1997) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 299-304.

DANIELS, P.J., BROOKS, H.M. & BELKIN, N.J. (1997) Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. In: Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997: 135-142.

BELKIN, N.J. (1994) Design principles for electronic textual resources: investigating users and uses of scholarly information. In: Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honor of Don Walker, edited by Antonio Zampolli, Nicoletta Calzolari, Martha Palmer (Linguistica Computazionale, v. IX-X). Pisa, Giardini, 1994: 479-488.

BELKIN, N.J. (1993) Understanding and supporting human information seeking. In: Intelligent information retrieval: the case of astronomy and related space sciences, A. Heck & F. Murtaugh, eds. Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1993: 9-20.

BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & DANIELS, P.J. (1988) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. In: Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems, edited by B.R. Gaines & J.H. Boose (Knowledge-Based Systems, volume 1). London, Academic Press, 1988: 107-124.

BELKIN, N.J. & CROFT, W.B. (1987) Retrieval techniques. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 22: 109-146 .

BELKIN, N.J. (1987) User/intermediary interaction analysis: a foundation for designing intelligent information systems. In J. Varlejs, ed. Information seeking: basing services on users' behaviors. North Carolina, McFarland, 1987: 327-330.

BELKIN, N.J. (1981) Ineffable concepts in information retrieval. In: Information retrieval experiment, K. Sparck Jones, ed. London, Butterworths: 44-58.

YATES, B, revised by N.J. BELKIN (1979) Some less conventional means of obtaining information. In: The use of the chemical literature, 3rd edition, R.T. Bottle, ed. London, Butterworths, 1979: 236-250.

BELKIN, N.J. (1975) The concept of information in informatics. In: Problems of Information Science (FID 530). Moscow, VINITI, 1975: 74-89.

BELKIN, N.J. (2000) Helping people find what they don't know. Communications of the ACM, vol. 43, no. 8: in press.

SAVAGE-KNEPSHIELD, P.A. & BELKIN, N.J. (1999) Interaction in information retrieval: trends over time. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 50, no. 12: 1067-1082.

BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., STEIN, A. & THIEL, U. (1995) Cases, scripts, and information seeking strategies: on the design of interactive information retrieval systems. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 9 (1995): 379-395 .

BELKIN, N.J., KANTOR, P., FOX, E.A. & SHAW, J. (1995) Combining queries for information retrieval. Information Processing and Management, vol. 31: 431-448.

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, vol. 29: 325-344 .

BELKIN, N.J. & CROFT, W.B. (1992) Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin? Communications of the ACM, vol. 35, no. 12: 29-38.

BELKIN, N.J., MARCHETTI, P.G., ALBRECHT, M., FUSCO, L., SKOGVOLD, S., STOKKE, H. & TROINA, G.. (1990) User interfaces for information systems. ESA Journal, vol. 14: 325-342; also in Journal of Information Science, vol. 17: 327-344.

BELKIN, N.J. (1990) The cognitive viewpoint in information science. Journal of Information Science, vol. 16: 11-15.

ANDERSON, J.D., BELKIN, N.J., LEDERMAN, L.C. & SARACEVIC, T. (1988) Information science at Rutgers: establishing new interdisciplinary connections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 39: 327-330.

BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & DANIELS, P.J. (1987) Knowledge elicitation using discourse analysis. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, vol. 27: 127-144.

BELKIN, N.J. (1987) Discourse analysis of human-human information interaction for specification of human-computer interaction. Canadian Journal of Information Science, vol. 13: 31-42 .

BELKIN, N.J., BORGMAN, C.L., BROOKS, H.M., BYLANDER, T., CROFT, W.B., DANIELS, P., DEERWESTER, S., FOX, E.A., INGWERSEN, P., RADA, R., SPARCK JONES, K., THOMPSON, R. & WALKER, D. (1987) Distributed expert-based information systems: an interdisciplinary approach. Information Processing and Management, vol. 23, no. 5: 395-409.

BROOKS, H.M., DANIELS, P.J. & BELKIN, N.J. (1986) Research on information interaction and intelligent information provision mechanisms. Journal of Information Science, vol. 12, nos. 1&2: 37-44.

BELKIN, N.J., HENNINGS, R.-D. & SEEGER, T. (1984) Simulation of a distributed expert-based information provision mechanism. Information Technology: Research, Development, Applications, vol. 3, no. 3: 122-141.

BELKIN, N.J. (1984) Cognitive models and information transfer. Social Science Information Studies, vol. 4, nos. 2&3: 111-129.

BELKIN, N.J., SEEGER, T. & WERSIG, G. (1983) Distributed expert problem treatment as a model for information system analysis and design. Journal of Information Science, vol. 5, no. 5: 153-167.

BELKIN, N.J., ODDY, R.N. & BROOKS, H.M. (1982) ASK for information retrieval. Part I: Background and theory; Part II: Results of a design study. Journal of Documentation, vol. 38, nos. 2&3: 61-71; 145-164 .

BELKIN, N.J. (1980) Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. Canadian Journal of Information Science, vol. 5: 133-143.

ROBERTSON, S.E. & BELKIN, N.J. (1978) Ranking in principle. Journal of Documentation, vol. 34, no. 2: 93-100.

BELKIN, N.J. (1978) Progress in documentation: Information concepts for information science. Journal of Documentation, vol. 34, no. 1: 55-85.

ODDY, R.N. & BELKIN, N.J. (1978) Document retrieval based on the automatic determination of the user's information need. Journal of Informatics, vol. 2, no. 2: 8-12.

BELKIN, N.J. & ROBERTSON, S.E. (1976) Information science and the phenomenon of information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 27, no. 4: 197-204.

BELKIN, N.J. (1975) Some Soviet concepts of information for information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, vol. 26, no 1: 56-64.

BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., HEAD, J., JENG, J., KELLY, D., LIN, S.J., LOBASH, L., PARK, S.Y., SAVAGE-KNEPSHIELD, P.A., SIKORA, C. (2000) Relevance feedback versus Local Context Analysis as term suggestion devices: Rutgers’ TREC-8 interactive track experience. In The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8), E.M. Voorhees and D. Harman, eds. Washington, D.C.: GPO, http://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec8/t8_proceedings.html

RIEH, S.Y. & BELKIN, N.J. (1998) Understanding judgment of information quality and cognitive authority in the WWW. In ASIS 98: Information access in the global information economy. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Medford, NJ: Information Today: 279-289.

BELKIN, N.J., LIN, S. PARK, S.Y., PEREZ-CARBALLO, J., RIEH, S.Y., SAVAGE, P., SIKORA, C.A., XIE, H., COOL, C., ALLAN, J. (1998) Rutgers’ TREC-6 Interactive Track experience. In: The Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), E.M. Voorhees & D. Harman, eds. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 597-610.

BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., KOENEMANN, J., NG, K.B., PARK, S. (1996) Using relevance feedback and ranking in interactive searching. In: TREC-4, Proceedings of the Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, edited by D. Harman. Washington, D.C., GPO: 181-209 (selected conference paper).

KOENEMANN, J. & BELKIN, N.J. (1996) A case for interaction: A study of interactive information retrieval behavior and effectiveness. In: CHI '96: Proceedings of the ACM SIG CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, ACM: 205-212 (refereed conference proceeding)

VEERASAMY, A. & BELKIN, N.J. (1996) Evaluation of a tool for visualization of information retrieval results. In: SIGIR ‘96, Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM: 85-92 (refereed conference proceeding).

COOL, C., PARK, S., BELKIN, N.J., KOENEMANN, J., NG, K.B. (1996) Information seeking behavior in new searching environments. In: CoLIS 2, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Integration in Perspective. Copenhagen, Royal School of Librarianship:403-416 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1996) Intelligent information retrieval: Whose intelligence? In: ISI ‘96: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium for Information Science. Konstanz, Universitätsverlag Konstanz: 25-31 (invited keynote conference paper).

KOENEMANN, J., QUATRAIN, R., COOL, C. & BELKIN, N.J. (1995) New tools and old habits: The interactive searching behavior of expert online searchers using INQUERY. In: TREC-3, Proceedings of the Third Text REtrieval Conference, edited by D. Harman. Washington DC., GPO: 145-177 (selected conference paper).

BELKIN, N.J. (1995) Strategies for evaluation of multimedia information retrieval systems. In: Proceedings of the Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIRO ‘95), Glasgow, September 1995. London, Springer Verlag: 5 pp. http://www.springer.co.uk/eWiC/eWiCAbstracts/MIRO95.html.

GLADNEY, H.M., E. A. FOX, Z. AHMED, R. ASHANY, N.J. BELKIN & M. ZEMANKOVA. (1994) Digital libraries: Gross structure and requirements. In: Digital Libraries '94, Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, College Station, Texas, 1994, 10 pp. http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/paper/fox.html

BELKIN, N.J. (1994) The use of multiple information problem representations for information retrieval. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Online Meeting, edited by M.E. Williams. Medford, NJ, Learned Information, Inc: 53-56 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J., KANTOR, P., COOL, C. & QUATRAIN, R. (1994) Combining evidence for information retrieval. In TREC-2, Proceedings of the Second Text REtrieval Conference, edited by D. Harman. Washington DC., GPO: 35-44 (selected conference paper).

BELKIN, N.J. (1993) Interaction with texts: information retrieval as information seeking behavior. In Information Retrieval '93: von der Modellierung zur Anwendung. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Gesselschaft für Informatik Fachgruppe Information Retrieval, Regensburg 1993. (Schriften zur Informationswissenschaft, Band 12). Konstanz, Universitätsverlag Konstanz: 55-66 (invited keynote conference presentation).

COOL, C., BELKIN, N.J., FRIEDER, O. & KANTOR, P. (1993) Characteristics of texts affecting relevance judgments. In M.E. Williams, ed. Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Online Meeting. Medford, NJ, Learned Information, Inc: 77-83 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. & COOL, C. (1993) The concept of information seeking strategies and its use in the design of information retrieval systems. AAAI Spring Symposium on Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval (AAAI Technical Report Series). Palo Alto, CA. (invited conference paper).

BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., STEIN, A. & THIEL, U (1993) Scripts for information seeking strategies. AAAI Spring Symposium on Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval (AAAI Technical Report Series). Palo Alto, CA (refereed conference paper).

BELKIN, N.J., COOL, C., CROFT, W.B. & CALLAN, J.P. (1993) The effect of multiple query representations on information retrieval system performance. In SIGIR '96: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM: 339-346 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1992) Intelligent information retrieval: understanding and supporting human information seeking. In A. Heck & F. Murtaugh, eds. Astronomy from Large Databases II. Garching bei München: 37-42 (invited keynote conference presentation).

MARCHETTI, P.G. & BELKIN, N.J. (1991) Interactive online search formulation support. In Proceedings of the 12th National Online Meeting, New York, 1991. Medford, NJ, Learned Information, Inc: 327-243 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. & MARCHETTI, P.G. (1990) Determining the functionality and features of an intelligent interface to an information retrieval system. In SIGIR '90: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Brussels, Presses Universitaires de Bruxelles: 151-177 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1990) A methodology for taking account of user tasks, goals and behavior for the design of computerized library catalogs. SIG CHI Bulletin, vol. 23: 61-65 (refereed conference presentation).

BELKIN, N.J., CHANG, S.-J, DOWNS, T, SARACEVIC, T. & ZHAO, S. (1990) Taking account of user tasks, goals and behavior for the design of online public access catalogs. In Information in the year 2000: from research to applications. Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Medford, NJ, Learned Information, Inc: 69-79 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1988) On the nature and function of explanation in intelligent information retrieval. In SIGIR '88: Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble: 135-145 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1986) Designing an intelligent information system interface. In: Intelligent Decision Aids in Process Environments. (NATO ASI Series, Vol. F21). New York and Berlin, Springer: 341-345 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. & KWASNIK, B.H. (1986) Using structural representations of anomalous states of knowledge for choosing document retrieval strategies. In: SIGIR '86: Proceedings of the 1986 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Pisa, Italy. Pisa, ACM: 11-22 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1986) What does it mean for an information system interface to be intelligent? In: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Computer Interfaces and Intermediaries for Information Retrieval. Alexandria, VA, Defense Technical Information Center: 97-105 (invited conference paper).

BROOKS, H.M., DANIELS, P.J. & BELKIN, N.J. (1985) Problem description and user models: developing an intelligent interface for document retrieval systems. In: Informatics 8. Advances in Intelligent Retrieval. London, Aslib: 191-214 (refereed conference proceeding).

DANIELS, P.J., BROOKS, H.M. & BELKIN, N.J. (1985) Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. In: RIAO '85, Actes of the Conference: Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, Grenoble, 1985. Grenoble, I.M.A.G.: 645-660 (refereed conference proceeding).

HAPESHI, K. & BELKIN, N.J. (1985) Developing and evaluating an automatic on-line information retrieval system based on user problem statements. In: RIAO '85, Actes of the Conference: Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur, Grenoble, 1985. Grenoble, I.M.A.G.: 681-698 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. & WINDEL, G. (1984) Using MONSTRAT for the analysis of information interaction. In: IRFIS 5, Fifth International Research Forum in Information Science, Heidelberg, 1983. Amsterdam, North-Holland: 359-382 (refereed conference proceeding).

BROOKS, H.M. & BELKIN, N.J. (1983) Using discourse analysis for the design of information retrieval interaction mechanisms. In: SIGIR '83: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Washington, DC., 1983. New York, ACM: 31-47 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1983) Information systems: concepts and constructs. In: Information science in action: system design (NATO ASI Series E: Applied Sciences, No. 60). The Hague, Martinus Nijhoff: 774-774 (refereed conference proceeding, abstract only).

BELKIN, N.J. et al. (1983) Mass informatics and their implication for everyday life. In: IFIP '83, Proceedings of the 9th World Computer Conference, Paris, 1983. Amsterdam, North-Holland: 583-587 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1982) Models of dialogue for information retrieval. In: IRFIS 4, Proceedings of the 4th International Research Forum in Information Science, Borås, Sweden, 1981. Borås, College of Librarianship: 15-36 (refereed conference proceeding).

EAST, H. & BELKIN, N.J. (1980) Advanced technology and the developing countries: the growing gap. In: New trends in documentation and information, Proceedings of the 39th Congress of the International Federation for Documentation, Edinburgh, 1978. London, Aslib: 129-133 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1980) The problem of matching in information retrieval. In: Theory and application of information research, Proceedings of the Second International Research Forum in Information Science, Copenhagen 1977. London, Mansell: 187-197 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J., KUEHNER, D. & MICHELL, B.G. (1980) Representation of texts for information retrieval. In: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Philadelphia, 1980. Philadelphia, ACL: 147-148 (extended abstract, refereed conference proceeding)

BROOKS, H.M., ODDY, R.N. & BELKIN, N.J. (1979) Representing and classifying anomalous states of knowledge. In: Informatics 5: The analysis of meaning. London, Aslib: 227-238 (refereed conference proceeding).

DEA, W. & BELKIN, N.J. (1979) Beyond the sentence: clause relations and textual analysis. In: Informatics 3. London, Aslib: 67-84 (refereed conference proceeding)

BELKIN, N.J., BROOKS, H.M. & ODDY, R.N. (1979) Representation and classification of anomalous states of knowledge and information for use in interactive information retrieval. In: IRFIS 3, Proceedings of the Third International Research Forum in Information Science, Oslo, 1979. Oslo, The Norwegian Library School: 146-183 (refereed conference proceeding)

BELKIN, N.J. (1977) Internal knowledge and external information. In: CC 77: The Cognitive Viewpoint, International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint, Gent, 1977. University of Gent, Gent: 187-194 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. & ROBERTSON, S.E. (1976) Some ethical and political implications of theoretical research in information science. In: Information*Politics, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. ASIS, Washington, DC.: 597-605 (refereed conference proceeding).

BELKIN, N.J. (1975) Towards a definition of information for information science. In: Informatics 2. London, Aslib: 50-56 (refereed conference proceeding).

SIGIR 2000. Proceedings of the 23^rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM, 2000, 397pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen and Mun-Kew Leong.

SIGIR ‘97. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM, 1997, 348 pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, A. Desai Narasimhalu and Peter Willett.

SIGIR ‘92. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM, 1992, 353 pp. Edited by Nicholas J. Belkin, Peter Ingwersen, and Annelise Mark Pejtersen.

SIGIR ‘89. Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York, ACM, 1989, 257pp. Edited by N.J. Belkin and C.J. van Rijsbergen.

BELKIN, N.J. (1979) Review of Natural Language in Information Science, edited by D.E. Walker, H. Karlgren and M. Kay. Journal of Information Science, vol. 35, no. 3: 257-260 (review).

BELKIN, N.J. (1977) Review of SIRE, 2nd International Research Forum in Information Science. Journal of Informatics, vol. 1, no. 2: 89-90 (review).

BELKIN, N.J. (1977) The representation of knowledge: report on the International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint. AISB Quarterly, no. 28: 6-7 (review).

BELKIN, N.J. (1977) Information and society: review of J. McHale, The Changing Information Environment. The Information Scientist, vol. 11, no.4: 149-152 (review).

BELKIN, N.J. (1974) Informatics I: conference report. International Classification, vol. 1, no. 2: 95-96 (review).

User modeling issues in customized information delivery. Invited presentation at the ACM SIGIR ’99 Workshop on Customized Information Delivery, Berkeley CA, August 1999.

Complementary models for the representation and organization of knowledge. Invited Keynote Lecture, Fourth Annual Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, Granada, Spain, 22 April 1999.

Information retrieval as interaction with information. CUIB/UNAM International Seminar "Research in Information for Virtual Universities", National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. August 1997.

Design and evaluation problems in multi-lingual information retrieval. Workshop on Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages, Taejun, Korea. June 1996. Invited keynote lecture.

Information retrieval as interaction. A series of four lectures, sponsored by the Academia Sinica, the Computational Linguistics Society of the Republic of China, and the Taiwan Chapter of the American Society for Information Science, at the Academia Sinica and the National University of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan. September 1994.

Digital libraries: history, functions, implementation, interaction and evaluation. A series of four invited lectures at the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore. August 1994.

The structure of interaction in intelligent information retrieval. First International Symposium for Information Science, Keynote Lecture, Konstanz, Germany. October 1990.

The natures of information. Seventh Nordic Conference for Information and Documentation, Keynote Lecture, Aarhus, Denmark. August 1989

Implications of 'intelligent information system' research for online catalogs. Rome, Venice, Florence. A series of lectures sponsored by the Italian Library Association, and others, Invited Lecture Series. January 1988.

Transparency in intelligent systems. Danish Artificial Intelligence Society Seminar on AI system architecture, complexity and transparency', Keynote Lecture, Koge, Denmark. October 1986.

Modeling the user in information interaction. Twelfth Annual Conference of the Association of Information Officers in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Torquay, England. June 1985.

Why you should want to be interdisciplinary, and what it takes to do it. Presentation at the panel on "Interdisciplinarity in Information Science: What does it Mean?" at the Annual Conference of the Association of Library and Information Science Educators, San Antonio, January 1999.

Supporting multiple information seeking behaviors in digital libraries. Panel presentation at the IEEE Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries, Santa Barbara, April 1998.

Improvement or Distortion Effects of Information Technology on the Development of Natural Languages. Panel presentation at COLING-96, The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen. August 1996.

Design principles for electronic textual resources: investigating users and uses of scholarly information. Association for Computing in the Humanities - Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (ACH-ALLC) '93 Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. June 1993.

Understanding user-intermediary dialogues from multiple perspectives. 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC. October 1991.

Hypertext and information retrieval: what are the fundamental concepts?. Panel presentation at the First European Conference on Hypertext, Paris. November 1990.

Evaluating computer-based tools in organizations. ACM Conference on Office Information Systems, Cambridge, MA. April 1990.

On the nature and role of complex user representations in text-based intelligent systems. AAAI Spring Symposium on Text-Based Intelligent Systems, Stanford, CA. March 1990.

User modeling for software reuse. Twelfth Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Panel on Information Retrieval and Software Reuse. Cambridge, MA, June 1989.

Artificial intelligence and science: whose knowledge? whose expertise? whose decisions?. AAAS Annual Meeting, Symposium on 'The impact of advances in information technologies on science: policy issues', Philadelphia. May 1986.

The analysis of human-human information interaction for the specification of human-computer information system interfaces. Third Symposium on Empirical Foundations of Information and Software Science, Risø, Denmark. July 1985.

Discourse analysis for information retrieval. International Federation for Documentation - Linguistics in Documentation Committee Seminar on Linking in Text, Osterbybruk, Sweden. March 1984.

Prospects for Information "Selection". Advisory paper for the Unified Cryptologic Architecture Office Technical Exchange Meeting on Information Processing – Applications and Software. Hanover, MD, 3 March 2000.

An overview of results from Rutgers’ investigations of interactive information retrieval. ASIS Graduate Student Research Forum, Pratt Institute, New York, NY. May 1997.

Adapting information systems to human needs. Sixth Rutgers WINLAB Workshop on Third Generation Wireless Information Networks, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. March 1997.

Information retrieval tools, an advisory position paper for the American Chemical Society Task Force on Research: Workshop on The Impact of New Information Technologies. Columbus, Ohio. May 1995.

Technology Forecast: Directions of retrieval technologies. Technologies for Current Awareness: Tomorrow's Information Today, a joint meeting of the ASIS New England Chapter and the SLA Boston Chapter, Westford, MA. April 1995.

The nature and function of explanation in the intelligent information retrieval system. American Society for Information Science, Potomac Valley Chapter, Washington, DC. February 1988.

Research in the development of intelligent information system interfaces. Swedish Special Library Association, Lund, Sweden. March 1985.

Models of dialogue for information retrieval. Aslib Informatics Group, London. November 1981.

Belkin, N.J. Understanding and supporting multiple information seeking behaviors in a single system framework. Research Colloquium, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, 25 May 1999.

Understanding and supporting people’s interactions with information. Colloquium, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, May 1998.

Co-leader and co-organizer of the Workshop on Information Exploration, at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 98), Los Angeles, April 1998. With Gene Golovchinsky.

Rutgers’ research in interactive information retrieval. Colloquium, Department of Library and Information Science, UCLA, April 1998.

Understanding and supporting people’s interactions with information: collaboration, not agency. "What is Cognitive Science?", a lecture series sponsored by the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, October 1997.

Measures for the evaluation of multimedia information retrieval. Dagstuhl Seminar 9716: "Evaluation of Multimedia Information Retrieval", Dagstuhl, Germany. April 1997.

Various things about interactive multi-media information retrieval and its evaluation. Dagstuhl Seminar 9716: "Evaluation of Multimedia Information Retrieval", Dagstuhl, Germany. April 1997.

The TREC-5 interactive track experience. Second Mira Workshop, University of Padova, Monselice, Italy. November 1996.

Interaction with information as a framework for research in information retrieval. Research Colloquium, Norwegian College of Library and Information Science and Journalism, Oslo. October 1996.

Interaction as the central process of information retrieval. Distinguished Seminar in Information Retrieval, IR Festival, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland. September 1995.

Strategies for evaluation of interactive multimedia information retrieval systems. MIRO Final Workshop, University of Glasgow, Scotland. September 1995.

Evaluation of interactive multimedia information retrieval systems. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Montreal, Canada. August 1995.

Supporting information seeking in multi-media databases. International Workshop on Networked Multimedia Information Retrieval and Reuse, held at the European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Frascati, Italy. March 1995. Sponsored by the European Space Agency, the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, the Italian Computer Science Society, and the Commission of the European Communities

Information retrieval: Where it is, where it's going. Research Seminar at the NEC Research Laboratories, Princeton, NJ. February 1995.

Digital libraries: interaction and evaluation. School of Information and Library Studies, University of Michigan. June 1994.

On the relationship between discourse structure and user intention. Dagstuhl Seminar on Summarizing Text for Intelligent Communication, Dagstuhl, Germany. December 1993.

Information retrieval as an interactive process. University of Konstanz, Department of Information Science, Research Seminar, Konstanz, Germany. July 1992.

Information retrieval as interaction. Federal Technical University Zürich, Department of Computer Science, Research Seminar, Zürich. July 1992.

On the evaluation of highly interactive, dialogue-based information systems. German Foundation for Computer Science Research, Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems (GMD-IPSI), Research Workshop. July 1992.

On the evaluation of interactive information retrieval. European Space Agency, ESRIN Seminar, Frascati, Italy. March 1992.

On the nature and structure of interaction in information retrieval. Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen, Denmark. February 1992.

Is information filtering just another name for information retrieval? And if so, so what?. Bellcore Workshop on High-Performance Information Filtering, Morristown, NJ. November 1991.

User interfaces for OPACs. Research Workshop on User Interfaces for Online Public Access Catalogs, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. November 1991.

Intelligent Information Retrieval. NSF Workshop on Future Directions in Text Analysis, Retrieval and Understanding, Chicago. October 1991.

The nature of interaction in information retrieval. UCLA, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. May 1991.

The role of user modeling for clarification and explanation in information retrieval interaction. USC ISI Colloquium, Marina del Rey, CA. May 1991.

The role of user modeling for clarification and explanation in intelligent information retrieval. University of the Saarland, Colloquium of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany. November 1990.

Watching users in libraries: methodologies for system design. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Seminar, Palo Alto, CA. March 1990.

Review of user interfaces for information systems. European Space Agency, ESRIN International Workshop on User Interfaces for Information Systems, Frascati, Italy. February 1990.

An overview of intelligent information retrieval. Merck Pharmaceuticals, Merck Research Seminar. January 1990.

User-centered design for information systems. Bell Communications Research, Bellcore User-Centered Design Forum, Red Bank NJ. November 1989.

The nature of explanation in intelligent information retrieval. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), OCLC Distinguished Seminar Series, Dublin OH. February 1988.

Architectures for intelligent information retrieval systems. University of Udine, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. January 1988.

On the nature and function of explanation in intelligent information retrieval. University of Udine, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. January 1988.

User modeling in intelligent information systems. University of Udine, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. January 1988.

What constitutes intelligence in an information system?. University of Padova, Department of Electronics and Computer Science. January 1988.

What constitutes intelligence in an information system?. General Electric Research & Development Center, Artificial Intelligence Group Seminar. November 1987.

Explanation in intelligent retrieval. Rutgers University, Computer Science Seminar. October 1987.

Uses of complex multi-media objects and information retrieval techniques. International Workshop on Multimedia Complex Objects, Taormina, Italy. June 1987.

A model of transparency as a basis for explanation in an expert intermediary for information retrieval. Bell Communications Research, Computer-Human Interaction Seminar, Morristown NJ. May 1987.

Investigating user modeling in information interaction by discourse analysis. Rutgers University, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Colloquium. March 1987.

Designing an intelligent information system interface. AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. January 1987.

Designing intelligent information provision mechanisms. University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science. February 1986.

How intermediaries model users in information interaction. University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science. February 1986.

Using problem structures to guide human-computer dialogues. University of Western Ontario, School of Library and Information Science. February 1986.

Developing an expert information system interface. Royal Danish School of Librarianship, Copenhagen. March 1985.

Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogues. University of Linkjoping, LIBLAB Seminar. March 1985.

Research in the development of an intelligent information system interface. The City University, London, Cognitive Studies Seminar. December 1984.

Designing intelligent information system interfaces. Bellcore, Murray Hill, NJ. September 1984.

The future of information studies in the context of the information revolution. Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information & Library Studies. September 1984.

The significance of interaction in information processes. British Library Research and Development Department Seminar on Basic Information Research, Cranfield, England. September 1983 (with A. Vickery).

Specification of the problem description function in information interaction. Free University Berlin, Department of Communication, Information Science Seminar. March 1983.

Application of the distributed expert model to information provision mechanism analysis and design. University of Konstanz, Department of Administrative Studies, Information Science Colloquium. February 1983.

Research trends in information science in the anglo-saxon countries. Free University Berlin, Faculty of Communication, Information Science Seminar. December 1982.

Text analysis for information retrieval. University of Linkjoping, Library Seminar. September 1981.

The anomalous state of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. Drexel University, School of Library and Information Science. June 1980.

Representation of texts for information retrieval. University of Western Ontario, Cognitive Studies Seminar. April 1980 (with B.G. Michell)

Representation of anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. University of Michigan, University Colloquium. March 1980.

Anomalous state of knowledge-based information retrieval. Syracuse University, School of Information Studies. February 1980.

Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. University of Western Ontario, School of Library and Information Science. December 1979.

Anomalous states of knowledge as a basis for information retrieval. Case Western University, School of Library Science. October 1979.

Cognitive aspects of information science. British Library Research and Development Department Workshop on Basic Information Research, Cranfield, England. September 1978.

Information and anomalous states of knowledge in information science. Sheffield University, School of Library and Information Science. June 1978.

Concepts of information in information science. Polytechnic of North London, School of Librarianship. May 1978.

Cognitive and linguistic problems in information science. University of California, Berkeley, School of Library and Information Studies. October 1976.

Ethical and political implications of theoretical research in information science. University of Washington, Seattle, University Lecture. October 1976.

Problems of knowledge representation for information retrieval. University of Washington, Department of Psychology. October 1976.

Park, S.-Y. (1999) Supporting information retrieval interaction with multiple distributed databases. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Algon, J. (1999) Effect of task on the information-seeking behavior of individuals in a work-group environment. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Hong, X. (1999) Patterns of users' goals and users' searching behaviors: Implications for system design. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Barkonian, H. (1999) Concurrently browsing heterogeneous media with distributed media appliances: toward usability for the converging media environment. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto. External thesis examiner.

McCreadie, M. (1998) A theoretical framework for understanding access to information. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Daniels, J.J. (1997) Retrieval of passages for information reduction. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. External thesis committee member.

Downs, T. (1997). Explanation in the information retrieval interaction setting. M.Phil. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Veerasamy, A. (1997). Visualization and user interface techniques for interactive information retrieval systems. Ph.D. Thesis, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. Member of committee, supervising information retrieval research.

Riecken, R. D. (1997) Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Koenemann, J. (1996) Understanding interactive relevance feedback. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Chang, S.-J. (1995) Toward a multidimensional framework for understanding browsing. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Sonnenwald, D.H. (1993) Communication in design. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Snelson, P. Relationships between access and use in information systems. (1993) Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Spink, A. Feedback in information retrieval. (1993) Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Wu, M.-M. (1992) Information interaction dialogue: a study of patron elicitation in the information retrieval interaction. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Zingale, C.M. (1991) The effects of attentional allocation and stimulus configuration on reports of illusory conjunctions. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Shenouda, W. (1991) Online search strategy modification by end users. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Rao, U. (1991) Hypertext functionality: A theoretical framework. Ph.D. Thesis, Graduate Program in Management, Rutgers University. External thesis committee member.

Su, L.T. (1991) An investigation to find appropriate measures for evaluating interactive information retrieval. Ph. D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor

Bernstein, D.R. (1990) Understanding spreadsheets: effects of power users' learning style and computer training on performance and mental model acquisition. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Kwasnik, B.H. (1989) The influence of context on classificatory behavior. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of committee and primary research supervisor.

Thompson, R. (1988). Ph.D. Thesis, Dept of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts. External committee member.

Allen, B. (1988) Bibliographic and text-linguistic schemata in the user-intermediary interaction. Ph.D. Thesis, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario. External committee member.

Miller, G.L. (1987) Ancient light on modern information and communication theory and technology. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Member of thesis committee.

Daniels, P.J. (1987) Developing the user modeling function of an intelligent interface for document retrieval systems. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Information Science, The City University, London. Primary Advisor.

Brooks, H.M. (1986) An intelligent interface for document retrieval systems: developing the problem description and retrieval strategy components. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Information Science, The City University, London. Primary Advisor

Sallis, P.J. (1979) A meta-information structure for representing arguments in scientific text. Ph.D. Thesis, Centre for Information Science, The City University, London. Primary Advisor.

Cooper, L. (in progress) The socialization of information behavior. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Lin, S.J. (in progress) Supporting multiple information seeking episodes . Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Pavlovsky, L. (in progress) Cultural context and the construction of an information systems. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Rieh, S. (in progress) Judgment of quality and authority of information in the WWW. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Savage, P. (in progress) Supporting interaction in information retrieval systems. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.

Sikora, C. (in progress) Multi-modal cues for enhancing Web search memory. Ph.D. Thesis, SCILS, Rutgers University. Primary Advisor.