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Supporting Effective Access Through User- and Topic-Based Language Models
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2003

NSF IDM Annual Report 2003 [MS Word doc]

NSF IDM PI Meeting Report [HTML]

Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Kelly, D., Lee, H.-J., Muresan, G., Tang, M.-C., & Yuan, X.-J. (2003). Query length in interactive information retrieval. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '03), Toronto, Canada.

Belkin, N.J., Cool, C., Kelly, D., Kim, G., Kim, J.-Y., Lee, H.-J., Muresan, G., Tang, M.-C., & Yuan, X.-J. (2003). Interaction and query length in interactive retrieval. In D. Harman & E. Voorhees (Eds.), The Eleventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2002). Washington, D.C.: GOP. 

Kelly, D. (2003). Understanding implicit feedback: A naturalistic user study. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '03) Workshop on Implicit Measures of User Interests and Preferences, Toronto, Canada. [Poster]

Kelly, D., Diaz, F., Belkin, N.J., & Allan, J. (under review). A user-centered approach to evaluating topic models. Submitted to the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '03).

2002

NSF IDM Annual Report 2002 [MS Word doc]

Allan, J. & Raghavan, H. (2002). Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '02), Tampere, Finland. [PDF]

Belkin, N. J., Cool, C., Jeng, J., Keller, A., Kelly, D., Kim, J., Lee, H.-J., Tang, M.-C., & Yuan, X.-J. (2002). Rutgers' TREC 2001 Interactive Track Experience. In D. Harman & E. Voorhees (Eds.), The Tenth Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2001). Washington, D.C.: GOP. [PDF]

Cronen-Townsend, S. & Croft, W. B. (2002). Quantifying query ambiguity. Proceedings of HLT 2002, San Diego, CA. [PDF]

Cronen-Townsend, S., Zhou, Y., & Croft, W. B. (2002). Predicting query performance. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '02), Tampere, Finland. [PDF]

Kelly, D. & Belkin, N. J. (2002). A user modeling system for personalized interaction and tailored retrieval in interactive IR. In Proceedings of Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2002), Philadelphia, PA. 

Kelly, D. & Belkin, N. J. (2002). Modeling characteristics of the user’s problematic situation with information search and use behaviors. In Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002) Workshop on Document Search Interface Design for Large-scale Collections and Intelligent Access, Portland, OR. [PDF]  

Kelly, D. & Belkin, N. J. (2002). Unobtrusively measuring information search and use behaviors using a naturalistic, longitudinal approach. In Proceedings of Annual Conference of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2002) Workshop on Measuring Search Behaviors: Current and Proposed Methods, Philadelphia, PA. 

Kelly, D. & Cool, C. (2002). The effects of topic familiarity on information search behavior. In Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2002), Portland, OR. [PDF]

Kelly, D., Murdock, V., Yuan, X.J., Croft, W.B., & Belkin, N.J. (2002). Features of documents relevant to task- and fact-oriented questions. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '02), McLean, VA. [PDF]

Murdock, V. & Croft, W. B. (2002). Task orientation in question answering. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '02), Tampere, Finland, 355-356.

2001

NSF IDM Annual Report 2001 [HTML]

Croft, W. B., Lavrendo, V., & Cronen-Townsend, S. (2001). Relevance feedback and personalization: A language modeling perspective. In Proceedings of the Joint DELOS-NSF Workshop on Personalization and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, 49-54. [HTML]

Kelly, D. & Belkin, N. J. (2001). Reading time, scrolling and interaction: Exploring implicit sources of user preference for relevance feedback. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '01), New Orleans, LA, 408-409. [PDF]

Instruments

TREC 2002 Rutgers Interactive Experiment

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9911942. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).