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Information Organization and Retrieval
INFO 202
MW 9:00-10:30, South Hall 202
L1. INTRODUCTION (8/26)
- L1R1. Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
- L1R2. Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, and Roger Lueder, "MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything," Communications of the ACM, 49(1), January 2006
- L1R3. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel," from Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
- L1R4. Ramana Rao, "From IR to Search and Beyond", ACM Queue, May 2004
L2. ISSUES AND CONTEXTS (8/31)
- L2R1. Adam Cohen, "The Lord Justice Has Ruled: Pringles are Potato Chips," NY Times (June 1 2009)
- L2R2. Felicity Barringer, "With Billions at Stake, Trying to Expand the Meaning of 'Renewable Energy'", NY Times (May 25, 2009)
- L2R3. Nicholas Kulish, "High Court in Germany Pops Names that Balloon," NY Times (May 6, 2009)
- L2R4. Jane Zhang,"Tailing Virulent Veggies" Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2007)
- L2R5. John Markoff, "Computer Program to take on Jeopardy," NY Times (April 27, 2009)
- L2R6. David Karger and William Jones, "Data Unification in Personal Information Management," Communications of the ACM, 49(1), January 2006
- L2R7. R. Baron, E. Fabens, M. Schiffman and E. Wolf, "Electronic Health Records: Just around the Corner? Or over the Cliff?" (222 - 226), Annals of Internal Medicine 143 (August 2005)
- L2R8. Philip Bernstein & Laura Haas, "Information Integration in the Enterprise," Communications of the ACM, September 2008
- L2R9. Rajat Mukherjee and Jianchang Mao, "Enterprise Search: Tough Stuff", ACM Queue (April 2004)
A1: 202 in the News (due 9/9)
L3. ORGANIZATION {AND,OR,VS} RETRIEVAL (9/2)
L4. XML (9/9)
A2: Getting Started with XML and XML Editors (due 9/16)
L5. CONCEPTS & CATEGORIES (9/14)
L6. METADATA & METADATA STANDARDS (9/16)
- L6R1. Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Chapter 3, Chapter 4 (62 - 66)
- L6R2. Lois Chan and Marcia Zeng, "Metadata Interoperability and Standardization: A Study of Methodology Part I. Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level", D-Lib Magazine, 12(6), June 2006
- L6R3. Cory Doctorow, "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia", 26 August 2001
L7. CONTROLLED NAMES AND VOCABULARIES (9/21)
- L7R1. Svenonius, The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization, Chapter 6, Chapter 8 (127-132)
- L7R2. George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Louis M. Gomez, and Susan T. Dumais, "The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication," Communications of the ACM, 30(11), 964-971 (1987)
- L7R3. Karen Coyle, "Identifiers: Unique, Persistent, Global," The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34(4), June 2006
- L7R4. L. Karl Branting, "Name Matching in Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism," ICAIL Workshop on Data Mining, Information Extraction, and Evidentiary Reasoning for Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism, June 2005
- L7R5. Malcolm Wheatley, "Operation Clean Data" CIO (July 2004)
A3: Designing a Vocabulary (due 9/28)
L8. CLASSIFICATION (9/23)
L9. ONTOLOGY (9/28)
A4: Faceted Classification (due 10/5)
L10. THE SEMANTIC WEB (9/30)
- L10R1. Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, & Ora Lassila, "The Semantic Web," Scientific American (May 2001)
- L10R2. Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman, "Which Semantic Web?" ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (2003)
- L10R3. Anupriya Ankolekar, Markus Krotzsch, Thanh Tran, and Denny Vrandecic. "The two cultures: Mashing up Web 2.0 and the semantic web." Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, 2007
L11. DOCUMENTS AND DATA MODELS... AND MODELING (10/5)
- L11R1. Glushko, "Modeling Methods and Artifacts for Crossing the Data/Document Divide," Proceedings of IDEAlliance XML 2005 Conference, November 2005
- L11R2. K. Thomas, "XML in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Structured Product Labeling", XML 2004 Conference
- L11R3. Tim Bray, "On Language Creation," XML 2005
- L11R4. Knowledge@Wharton, "What Is the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats"
L12. CONTENT MANAGEMENT (10/7)
A5: Documents in the Wild (due 10/19)
L13. REVIEW (10/12)
L14. ENTERPRISE CATEGORIZATION, INFORMATION INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY (10/14)
- L14R1. M. Brun, J. Brown and R. Lohde, "Adoption of UBL in Denmark: Business cases and experiences", XTech (2005)
- L14R2. Smita Brunnermeier and Sheila Martin, "Interoperability Costs in the US Automotive Supply Chain" Supply Chain Management 7(2) (2002)
- L14R4. Arnon Rosenthal, Len Seligman, and Scott Renner. "From Semantic Integration to Semantics Management: Case Studies and a Way Forward," SIGMOD Record, 33(4), December 2004
- L14R3. Alon Halevy, "Why Your Data Won't Mix," ACM Queue (October 2005)
A6: Social / Distributed Classification (Part 1 due 11/2) (Part 2 due 11/11)
L15. SOCIAL / DISTRIBUTED CATEGORIZATION (10/19)
- L15R1. Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, Danah Boyd, and Marc Davis. "HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, To Read," Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, 2006
- L15R2. Tom Gruber, "Collective knowledge systems: Where the social web meets the semantic web," Journal of Web Semantics, 6, 2008
L16. PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (10/21)
- L16R1. David Kirsh, "A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload," Intellectica (2000)
- L16R2. Stephen Voida & Elizabeth Mynatt, "It feels better than filing": Everyday work experiences in an activity-based computing system, CHI'2009
- L16R3. Catherine Marshall, "Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 1," D-Lib Magazine, 14(3/4), March/April 2008
L17. METADATA FOR MULTIMEDIA (10/26)
- L17R1. Patricia Harpring, "The Language of Images: Enhancing Access to Images by Applying Metadata Schemas and Structured Vocabularies"
- L17R2. Kai-Ping Yee, Kirsten Swearington, Kevin Li, and Marti Hearst, "Faceted metadata for image search and browsing" ACM CHI 2003
- L17R3. Mor Naaman, Susumu Harada, QianUing Wang, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Andreas Paepcke, "Context Data in Geo-Referenced Digital Photo Collections," Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (2004)
L18. MIDTERM EXAM (10/28)
L19. USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (11/2)
L20. TEXT PROCESSING; BOOLEAN MODELS (11/4)
L21. VECTOR MODELS (11/9)
A7: Term Weighting and Ranking Calculations (due 11/25)
L22. DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION (11/16)
L23. STRUCTURE-BASED MODELS [1] (11/18)
- L23R1. Alejandro Diaz, "Through the Google Goggles: Sociopolitical Bias in Search Engine Design." 2005 (Chapters 4 and 5)
- L23R2. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Chapter 21
- L23R3. Pairin Katerattanakul, Bernard Han, and Soongoo Hong. "Objective Quality Ranking of Computing Journals," Communications of the ACM, 46(10), October 2003
L24. STRUCTURE-BASED MODELS [2] (11/23)
L25. MOBILE and MULTIMEDIA IR (11/25)
- L25R1. Marti Hearst, Search User Interfaces, Chapter 12, "Emerging Trends in Search Interfaces"
- L25R2. Peter Knees, Tim Pohle, Markus Schedl, and Gerhard Widmer. "A Music Search Engine Built upon Audio-based and Web-based Similarity Measures," SIGIR 2007
- L25R3. Patrick Schmitz & Michael Black, "The Delphi Toolkit: Enabling Semantic Search for Museum Collections," Museums and the Web, 2008
L26. APPLIED IR & NLP [1](11/30)
- L26R1. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Chapter 13, through Section 13.1
- L26R2. Adam Kilgarriff and Gregory Grefenstette, "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Web as Corpus," Computational Linguistics 29(3) (2003)
- L26R3. Daniel Cohen, "From Babel to Knowledge Data Mining Large Digital Collections", -Lib Magazine (March 2006)
- L26R4. Gary Stix, "The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation," Scientific American (March 2006)
L27. APPLIED IR and NLP [2] (12/2)
- L27R1. Clarabridge, "Converging Text and BI: The Case for a Content Mining Platform", 2006
- L27R2. Alex Wright, "Our Sentiments, Exactly," Communications of the ACM, April 2009
- L27R3. Jiexun Li et al., "From Fingerprint to Writeprint," Communications of the ACM, April 2006
- L27R4. Paul Graham, "A Plan for Spam"