Jussi Karlgren - Information retrieval algorithms

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• Lecture text:
  Jussi Karlgren. 2000. The Basics of Information Retrieval: Statistics and Linguistics Stockholm: Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
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• More reading about information retrieval formulae: S. E. Robertson and Karen Sparck Jones. 1996. Simple, proven approaches to text-retrieval. Technical report 356, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ftp/papers/reports/TR356-ksj-approaches-to-text-retrieval.ps.gz] or locally at SICS:
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• First publications on information retrieval:
  • Hans Peter Luhn. 1957. A Statistical Approach to Mechanized Encoding and Searching of Literary Information. IBM Journal of Research and Development 1 (4) 309-317.
  • Hans Peter Luhn. 1958. ``The Automatic Creation of Literature Abstracts''. IBM Journal of Research and Development 2:2 (159-165; 317).
  • Hans Peter Luhn. 1959. ``Auto-Encoding of Documents for Information Retrieval Systems''. In M. Boaz (editor). Modern Trends in Documentation. London: Pergamon Press. (45-58).

  All above papers republished in H.P.Luhn: Pioneer of Information Science, selected works. Claire K. Schultz (ed.) 1968. New York:Sparta.

• More reading about text structure: Oskari Heinonen. 1998. Dokumenttien katkelmoinnista - fragmentti, segmentti, pasaasi. Helsinki: Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos, Helsingin yliopisto. 

• More reading about information extraction:
  Ralph Grishman. 1997. "Information Extraction: Techniques and Challenges" Materials for Information Extraction (International Summer School SCIE-97), ed. Maria Teresa Pazienza, Springer-Verlag.

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• More reading about interface issues in information access:
  Marti Hearst. 1999. "User Interfaces and Visualization" In Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, (editors) Modern Information Retrieval. New York: ACM Press.
• More reading about multi-word terms in English:
• Frank Smadja. 1993. Retrieving Collocations from Text: XTRACT. Journal of Computational Linguistics. Special issue on corpus based techniques. 19 (1) 143 - 177.
• John S. Justeson and Slava M. Katz. 1995. "Technical Terminology: some linguistic properties and an algorithm for identification in text." Natural Language Engineering, 1, 1, 9-27.
• Tomek Strzalkowski. 1994. Building a Lexical Domain Map From Corpora. Proceedings of the fifteenth International Conference on COmputational LINGuistics (COLING 94), Kyoto.