Readings in Information Retrieval

Readings in Information Retrieval

Edited by

Karen Sparck Jones
University of Cambridge

Peter Willett
University of Sheffield

Chapter 1 Overall Introduction

Chapter 2 History

The Thesaurus Approach to Information Retrieval

T. Joyce and R. M. Needham

The Automatic Derivation of Information Retrieval Encodements from Machine-Readable Texts

H. P. Luhn

Indexing and Abstracting by Association. Part I

L. B. Doyle

On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval

M. E. Maron and J. L. Kuhns

The Cranfield Tests on Index Language Devices

C. W. Cleverdon

Computer Evaluation of Indexing and Text Processing, JACM 15(1) 1968

Gerard Salton and M. E. Lesk

Chapter 3 Key Concepts

The Concept of "Aboutness" in Subject Indexing

W. J. Hutchins

The Testing of Index Language Devices

C. W. Cleverdon and J. Mills

Thesaurus

D. J. Foskett

Using Problem Structures for Driving Human-Computer Dialogues

P. J. Daniels, H. M. Brooks, and N. J. Belkin

Relevance: A Review of and a Framework for Thinking

T. Saracevic

Chapter 4 Evaluation

A Study of Information Seeking and Retreving. I. Background and Methodology

T. Saracevic, P. Kantor, A. Y. Chamis, and D. Trivison

On Selecting a Measure of Retrieval Effectiveness. Part I

W. S. Cooper

The Pragmatics of Information Retrieval Experimentation, Revisited

J. Tague-Sutcliffe

Presenting Results of Experimental Retrieval Comparisons

E. M. Keen

MEDLARS: Report on the Evaluation of Its Operating Efficiency

F. W. Lancaster

The TREC Conferences

D. K. Harman

Chapter 5 Models

Getting Beyond Boole

W. S. Cooper

A Non-Classical Logic for Information Retrieval

C. J. van Rijsbergen

A Vector Space Model for Automatic Indexing, CACM 18(11) 1975

Gerard Salton, A. Wong, and C. S. Yang

The Probability Ranking Principle in IR

S. E. Robertson

Inference Networks for Document Retrieval

H. Turtle and W. B. Croft

ASK for Information Retrieval. Part I. Background and Theory

N. J. Belkin, R. N. Oddy, and H. M. Brooks

Chapter 6 Techniques

An Algorithm for Suffix Stripping

M. F. Porter

Robust Text Processing in Automated Information Retrieval

T. Strzalkowski

Term-Weighting Approaches in Automatic Text Retrieval, Retrieval., Information Processing and Management 24(5) 1988

Gerard Salton and C. Buckley

Search Term Relevance Weighting Given Little Relevance Information

K. Sparck Jones

Using Probabilistic Models of Document Retrieval without Relevance Information

W. B. Croft and D. J. Harper

Some Simple Effective Approximations to the 2-Poisson Model for Probabilistic Weighted Retrieval

S. E. Robertson and S. Walker

Improving Retrieval Performance by Relevance Feedback, JASIS 41(4) 1990

Gerard Salton and C. Buckley

Using Interdocument Similarity Information in Document Retrieval Systems

A. Griffiths, H. C. Luckhurst, and P. Willett

Chapter 7 Systems

The SMART and SIRE Experimental Retrieval Systems

Gerard Salton and M. J. McGill

Architecture of an Expert System for Composite Document Analysis, representation, and Retrieval

E. A. Fox and R. K. France

User-Friendly Systems Instead of User-Friendly Front-Ends

D. K. Harman

The Okapi Online Catalogue Research Projects

S. Walker

TREC and TIPSTER Experiments with INQUERY

J. P. Callan, W. B. Croft, and J. S. Broglio

RUBRIC: A System for Rule-Based Information Retrieval

B. P. McCune, R. M. Tong, and J. Dean

TARGET and FREESTYLE: DIALOG and Mead Join the Relevance Ranks

C. Tenopir and P. Cahn

Chapter 8 Extensions

A Hypertext Environment for Interacting with Large Databases

M. Agosti, G. Gradenigo, and P. G. Marchetti

Automatic Analysis, theme Generation, and Summarization of Machine-Readable Texts

Gerard Salton, J. Allan, C. Buckley, and A. Singhal

Querying Across Languages: A Dictionary-Based Approach to Multilingual Information Retrieval

D. A. Hull and G. Grefenstette

Experiments in Spoken Document Retrieval

K. Sparck Jones, G. J. F. Jones, J. T. Foote, and S. J. Young

Video Parsing, Retrieval and Browsing: An Integrated and Content-Based Solution

H. J. Zhang, C. Y. low, S. W. Smoliar, and J. H. Wu

The Automatic Indexing System AIR/PHYS - From Research to Application

P. Biebricher, N. Fuhr, G. Lustig, M. Schwantner, and G. Knorz

A News Story Categorization System

P. J. Hayes, L. E. Knecht, and M. J. Cellio

Conceptual Information Extraction and Retrieval from Natural Language Input

L. F. Rau

A Production Rule System for Message Summarization

E. Marsh, H. Hamburger, and R. Grishman

The Application of Linguistic Processing to Automatic Abstract Generation

F. C. Johnson, C. D. Paice, W. J. Black, and A. P. Neal

Chapter 9 Envoi

Historical Note: Information Retrieval and the Future of an Illusion

D. R. Swanson