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Information Retrieval / Recherche d'informations

Research done by Professor J. Savoy are supported by The Swiss National Science Foundation. This team includes Pierre-Yves Berger and Samir Abdou who raise together different challenges.

Information Retrieval and the Web

Computer Science Bibliography (access by author, journal, topic)

CiteSeer (Scientific Literature Digital Library)

A. Selection of our recent publications

• Information Processing & Management
• Journal of the American Society for Information Studies
• Information Retrieval Journal (dès 1999)
  • The ACM Digital Library
  • CLEF Conference on Cross-Lingual on European languages and our tools for those languages
  • NTCIR Conference on Cross-Lingual on Asian languages
  • Our publication on the Web Information Retrieval on the Web

B. Research network

• Meet up the prestigious conference TREC (Publications available online)
• Have a look at the CLEF site providing information about multilingual retrieval systems (other resources available);
  • the last SIGIR'2005 conference;
  • the next conférence SIGIR'2006 conference;
  • Pour le Web, voir WWW2005 ou WWW2006;
• Go through the FRANCIL network and its activities in Computational Linguistics and in particular the project Amaryllis financed partly by AUPELF-UREF

C. IR Software available on the net

• To run your own experiences in Information Retrieval, use the system SMART (source code C available) at Cornell University (version 11.0 available with ftp anonymous at "ftp://cs.cornell.edu/pub/smart/", questions can be addressed to: smart/people@cs.cornell.edu; a tutorial is also avaible);
• The other available IR system is MG described in the book of I. H. Witten, A. Moffat, T. C. Bell: Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York (NY), 1994 (see also this information).
• The Omsee search system and its open source.
• IR systems available
• Other IR resources
• Some tests-collections (CACM, CISI, etc.)

D. Books available on Information Retrieval

• R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval. ACM Press, New York (NY), 1999.
• G. Salton: Automatic Text Processing. Addison-Wesley, Reading (MA), 1989.
• W. B. Frakes, R. Baeza-Yates: Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (NJ), 1992.
• K. van Rijsbergen: Information Retrieval. Butterworths, London (UK), 1979.

E. Other useful addresses in Information Retrieval  

• University of Massachusetts at Amhert, USA (B. W. Croft , J. Allan)
• Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK (S. E. Robertson, S. Walker)
• Carnegie Mellon University, USA (J. Callan)
• University of Glasgow, UK (K. van Rijsbergen)
• Australian National University, Canberra (D. Hawking)
• Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (Y. Chiaramella)
• Oregon Health & Science University, (W. Hersh)
• Other sites and addresses

F. Examples of commercial services in Information Retrieval

• Thomson Legal and Regularoty (Westlaw)
• Lexis-Nexis
• NLM (National Library of Medecine)
• Eurospider (P. Schäuble, M. Braschler)
• Xerox
• Tel-Me-More (The European Library)

G. Subjects and topics related to Information Retrieval

• Digital Librairies (E. Fox) on in the journal D-Lib or with a lecture
• Encyclopedias & dictionaries
• Linguistics at Max Planck Institue
• Linguistic exploration (database) and tools for linguistic annotation
• la linguistique computationnelle
• Machine Learning (R. Michalski, George Mason University)
• Multimedia Databases: time sequences, images, videos (C. Faloutsos, CMU)
• Law and IR
• Guidelines for robot writers
• Web metrics testBed (at NIST)

H. Past members

• Laura Perret (Ph.D, 2005)
• Martin Braschler (Ph.D, 2004), Eurospider, and Zürich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur, Switzerland
• Faiza Abbaci (Ph.D, 2003)
• Yves Rasolofo (Ph.D, 2002)
• Justin Picard (Ph.D, 2000), ingénieur R&D, MediaSec Technologies, Providence, RI, USA
• Anne Le Calvé, (Ph. D., 1999), Senior College for Computer Science and Economics, Sierre
• Dana Vrajitoru (Ph.D, 1998), Indiana Universiy at South Bend, Computer Science Dept.

I. Other useful sites

• 3e cycle romand d'informatique
• Index in computer (Yahoo!)
• mathematics (access by themes, date or names of famous mathematicians)