Reading List for CS494/594 - Information Retrieval - Fall 1995

This reading list is supplemental reading for the course. You may wish to refer to these papers for help with homework and lab assignments or for ideas for class presentations (grad students) or to satisfy your curiosity about some topic. Any required reading will be explicity assigned. The papers are in the approximate order of use. The list is currently incomplete, and additions will be made throughout the semester. See Dr. Browne for copies of papers that are not on-line.

The Multilingual World Wide Web, Gavin Nicol
Character Set Considered Harmful, Dan Connolly, May 1995
Fast Text Searching With Errors, Sun Wu and Udi Manber, University of Arizona Computer Science Technical Report TR 91-11, June 1991
agrep - A Fast Approximate Pattern-Matching Tool, Sun Wu and Udi Manber, USENIX Conference, January 1992
GLIMPSE: A Tool to Search Through Entire File Systems, Udi Manber and Sun Wu, University of Arizona Computer Science Technical Report TR 93-34, October 1993
Extending Retrieval Strategies to Networked Environments: Old Ways, New Ways, and a Critical Look at WAIS, G. Marchionini, D. Barlow, and L. Hill, JASIS 45(8):561-564, 1994
Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification (part1), ANSI/NISO, July 1995
Scalable Internet Resource Discovery: Research Problems and Approaches, C. Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Udi Manber, and Michael F. Schwartz, CACM 37(8): 98-107, August 1994.
Harvest: A Scalable Customizable Discovery and Access System, C. Mic Bowman, Peter B. Danzig, Darren R. Hardy, Udi Manber, Michael F. Schwartz, and Duane P. Wessels, Technical Report CU-CS-732-94, revised March 1995.
Customized Information Extraction as a Basis for Resource Discovery, Darren R. Hardy and Michael F. Schwartz, Technical Report CU-CS-707-94, University of Colorado, revised February 1995.
Data Mining: The Search for Knowledge in Databases, Marcel Holsheimer and Arno Siebes, CWI Technical Report CS-R9406, Amsterdam, 1994
Technology Overview: A Report on Data Mining, Karsten Decker and Sergio Focardi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) Technical Report CSCS TR-95-02, May 1995
Machine Learning for Information Retrieval: Neural Networks, Symbolic Learning, and Genetic Algorithms, H. Chen, JASIS 46(3): 194-216, 1995
An Algorithmic Approach to Concept Exploration in a Large Knowledge Network (Automatic Thesaurus Consultation): Symbolic Branch-and-Bound Search vs. Connectionist Hopfield Net Activation, H. Chen and T. Ng, JASIS 46(5):348-369, 1995
The INQUERY Retrieval System, J.P. Callan and W.B. Croft and S.M. Hardin, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pp. 78-83, 1992
Combining Automatic and Manual Index Representations in Probabilistic Retrieval, T. B. Rajashekar and W. Bruce Croft, JASIS 46(4): 272-283, 1995
Fast incremental indexing for full-text information retrieval, E.W. Brown and J.P. Callan and W.B. Croft, Proc 20th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Santiago, Chile, 1994
Searching Distributed Collections with Inference Networks, J. Callan Z. Lu and W.B. Croft, Proc. 18th ACM SIGIR Conference, Seattle, WA, July, 1995
Performance Analysis of Distributed Information Retrieval Architectures, B. Cahoon and K. McKinley, UMass Tech Report #95-54, 1995
Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval, M. Berry and S. Dumais, SIAM Review, December, 1995
Improving the retrieval of information from external sources, Susan T. Dumais. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 23(2), 1991, 229-236.
Computational Methods for Intelligent Information Access, M. Berry, S. Dumais and T. Letsche, Proceedings of Supercomputing'95, December, 1995
Representing Documents Using an Explicit Model of Their Similarities, B.T. Bartell, G.W. Cottrell, and R.K. Belew, JASIS 46(4):254-271, 1995
Information Retrieval, by C.J. van Rijsbergen. (Ch. 6 - Probabilistic Retrieval)
Applying Bayesian Networks to Information Retrieval, Robert Fung and Brendan Del Favero, CACM 38(3): 42-48, March 1995
Performance of Four World Wide Web (WWW) Index Services: Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler and WWWWorm, by H. Vernon Leighton
Enabling Agents to Work Together, R.V. Guha and Douglas B. Lenat, CACM 37(7): 127-142, July 1994.
CYC: A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure, Douglas B. Lenat, CACM 38(11): 33-38, Nov. 1995
InfoSleuth Agents: The Next Generation of Active Objects, Darrell Woelk and Michael Huhns and Christine Tomlinson, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation Technical Report INSL-054-95, June 1995.
Proceedings of CIKM '95 Intelligent Agents Workshop