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Smeaton, Alan
Dublin City University
Glasnevin, Ireland
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  Bibliometric cartography of information retrieval research by using co-word analysis
Ding Y., Chowdhury G., Foo S. Information Processing and Management: an International Journal 37(6): 817-842, 2001.  Type: Article

This paper reports a research investigation into papers published in the field of information retrieval during a 10-year period ending in 1997. ...

Feb 18 2003  
  Exploratory image databases: content-based retrieval
Santini S., Academic Press, Inc., Duluth, MN, 2001. 613 pp.  Type: Book (9780126192612)

This book addresses the study of computer systems for accessing images from very large image databases, where retrieval is based directly on image contents, rather than on supporting metadata....

May 22 2002  
  Color indexing
Swain M., Ballard D. In Readings in multimedia computing and networking. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 2001.  Type: Book Chapter

This is one of a few dozen papers appearing in another of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers’ excellent “Readings in...” books. The book itself is heavy, with several hundred pages of paper reprints collected toge...

Mar 1 2002  
  End user searching on the Internet: an analysis of term pair topics submitted to the excite search engine
Ross N. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(10): 949-958, 2000.  Type: Article

The developers of the Excite Web search engine have provided the research community with a log of more than one million queries issued by users over a single day. This paper presents an analysis of aspects of those searches. The origin...

Jul 1 2001  
  Information retrieval from annotated texts
Fraenkel A., Klein S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(10): 845-854, 1999.  Type: Article

An annotated text is one to which an author or editor has added supplementary text that explains or clarifies. Information retrieval (IR) from annotated texts is different than IR from hypertext, a subject that has been studied and inv...

Nov 1 1999  
  Condorcet query engine
van der Vet P., Mars N. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50(6): 485-492, 1999.  Type: Article

The authors present a functional specification of a query engine that handles coordinated index concepts, Boolean queries, and superconcept expansion. This means that, in theory, the precision or quality of retrieval using such indexed...

Jul 1 1999  
  Using latent semantic indexing for literature based discovery
Gordon M., Dumais S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49(9): 674-685, 1998.  Type: Article

Literature-based discovery, a technique first discussed just over a decade ago, is a technique that uses the published scientific literature as a source of new discovery. It can be characterized as follows: given the literature on subj...

Jan 1 1999  
  A classification approach to Boolean query reformulation
French J., Brown D., Kim N. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 48(9): 694-706, 1997.  Type: Article

Boolean information retrieval (IR) is based on finding all text documents from a corpus that match a user’s query, which is formulated as a Boolean combination of keywords. Although it is fast and easy to implement, controlli...

Mar 1 1998  
  Information storage and retrieval
Korfhage R., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1997.  Type: Book (9780471143383)

Information retrieval (IR) is the field of matching users’ vague and imprecise information needs against a corpus of unstructured information, retrieving parts of this collection that may be relevant to the information need, ...

Oct 1 1997  
  Improving text retrieval for the routing problem using latent semantic indexing
Hull D.  Research and development in information retrieval (, Dublin, Ireland, 2911994.  Type: Proceedings

Routing is an information retrieval application based on static user queries or profiles matched against an incoming stream of documents. Hull applies the latent semantic indexing (LSI) technique to the routing problem. Information ret...

Oct 1 1995  
 
 
 
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