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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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  Visualizing and tracking the growth of competing paradigms: two case studies
Chen C., Cribbin T., Macredie R., Morar S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53(8): 678-689, 2002.  Type: Article
The authors have developed a novel visualization tool for observing the dynamic rise and fall of scientific paradigms. By counting the numbers of citations and co-citations (papers cited together in other papers), they can begin to dr...
 		Jan 31 2003
  A unified maximum likelihood approach to document retrieval
Bodoff D., Enache D., Kambil A., Simon G., Yukhimets A. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52(10): 785-796, 2001.  Type: Article
The authors of this paper deal with the problem of using relevance feedback data to improve information retrieval (IR) performance. Relevance feedback is an assessment of the actual relevance of a document to a query. The authors pres...
 		Sep 18 2002
  Learning user interest dynamics with a three-descriptor representation
Widyantoro D., Ioerger T., Yen J. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52(3): 212-225, 2001.  Type: Article
[M]any systems use text documents obtained from...users’ relevance feedback to model the interests of users. Text documents are syntactically noisy, in that they could have many irrelevant features (words) within...
 Sep 3 2002
  Getting answers to natural language questions on the Web
Radev D., Libner K., Fan W. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53(5): 359-364, 2002.  Type: Article
The volume of information currently available on the Web is enormous. Google, one of the more popular search sites, indexes around 1.4 billion Web pages. However, while the retrieval strategy of search engines is undergoing radical mo...
 		Aug 12 2002
  A view to the future of the library and information science profession: a Delphi study
Arbib S. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53(5): 397-408, 2002.  Type: Article
This Delphi study, performed in Israel, examines the future of the librarian and information science (LIS) profession, particularly in regard to the transition from the traditional to the virtual library, the transition from the techn...
 		Aug 9 2002
  User perspectives on relevance criteria: a comparison among relevant, partially relevant , and not-relevant judgements
Maglaughlin K., Sonnenwald D. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 53(5): 327-342, 2002.  Type: Article
The authors investigate the use of criteria to assess relevant, partially relevant, and not-relevant documents in the context of information retrieval (IR) systems. Their paper is based on an experiment with 12 participants, and on on...
 		Jul 24 2002
  Validating a geographical image retrieval system
Zhu B., Chen H. (ed) Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(7): 625-634, 2000.  Type: Article
Image retrieval is a rather interesting research subject, due to the need for both image processing and large-scale storage requirements in a modern information system. This paper presents a prototype geographical image retrieval syste...
 		Jun 4 2002
  Hyperauthorship: a postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?
Cronin B. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 52(7): 558-569, 2001.  Type: Article
Hyperauthorship, defined as when hundreds of authors appear on a paper, is found in biomedicine and high-energy physics. This is a classic academic essay, containing dozens of references, that relates post-modernism to hyperauthorship....
 		Apr 24 2002
  Ethnomethodologically informed ethnography and information system design
Crabtree A., Nichols D., O’Brien J., Rouncefield M., Twidale M. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(7): 666-682, 2000.  Type: Article
The authors describe how to use the methodologies of ethnography to improve software system design, with some examples drawn from library search interfaces intended for novice users. The paper first addresses the practice of ethnograph...
 		Apr 22 2002
  Maps of information spaces: assessments from astronomy
Poinçot P., Lesteven S., Murtagh F. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(12): 1081-1089, 2000.  Type: Article
Effective and efficient exploration and retrieval of Web-based information is an important task that can be made easier by a good user interface and classification. The authors address this by developing a cartographic user interface f...
 		Mar 1 2002
 
 
 
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