Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series will publish 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. The scope will largely follow the purview of premier information and computer science conferences, such as ASIST, ACM SIGIR, ACM/IEEE JCDL, and ACM CIKM. Potential topics include, but not are limited to: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.

Series ISSN: 1947-945X (print) 1947-9468 (electronic)

For related titles, please see our series in Human Language Technologies.
 

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and Practice

Claire R. McInerney, Michael E. D. Koenig

Abstract | PDF (613 KB) | PDF Plus (675 KB) 

Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies

Gregory Grefenstette, Laura Wilber

Abstract | PDF (5462 KB) | PDF Plus (3338 KB) 

Information Concepts: From Books to Cyberspace Identities 

Gary Marchionini

Abstract | PDF (856 KB) | PDF Plus (975 KB) 

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval

David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov

2010

Abstract | PDF (894 KB) | PDF Plus (781 KB) 

iRODS Primer: Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System

Arcot Rajasekar, Reagan Moore, Chien-Yi Hou, Christopher A. Lee, Richard Marciano, Antoine de Torcy, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, Sheau-Yen Chen, Lucas Gilbert, Paul Tooby, Bing Zhu

Abstract | PDF (793 KB) | PDF Plus (697 KB) 

Collaborative Web Search: Who, What, Where, When, and Why

Meredith Ringel Morris, Jaime Teevan

2009

Abstract | PDF (4216 KB) | PDF Plus (2314 KB) 

Multimedia Information Retrieval 

Stefan Rüger

Abstract | PDF (4754 KB) | PDF Plus (3623 KB) 

Online Multiplayer Games

William Sims Bainbridge

Abstract | PDF (1931 KB) | PDF Plus (1488 KB) 

Information Architecture: The Design and Integration of Information Spaces

Wei Ding, Xia Lin

Abstract | PDF (2638 KB) | PDF Plus (2161 KB) 

Reading and Writing the Electronic Book

Catherine C. Marshall

Abstract | PDF (11619 KB) | PDF Plus (2632 KB) 

Hypermedia Genes: An Evolutionary Perspective on Concepts, Models, and Architectures

Nuno M. Guimarães, Luís M. Carrico

Abstract | PDF (1473 KB) | PDF Plus (893 KB) 

Understanding User-Web Interactions via Web Analytics

Bernard J. (Jim) Jansen

Abstract | PDF (1417 KB) | PDF Plus (835 KB) 

XML Retrieval

Mounia Lalmas

Abstract | PDF (1453 KB) | PDF Plus (1087 KB) 

Faceted Search

Daniel Tunkelang

Abstract | PDF (8471 KB) | PDF Plus (2595 KB) 

Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences

Michael Thelwall

Abstract | PDF (5164 KB) | PDF Plus (2052 KB) 

Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm

Ryen W. White, Resa A. Roth
Abstract | PDF (3918 KB) | PDF Plus (1698 KB) 

New Concepts in Digital Reference

R. David Lankes

Abstract | PDF (3837 KB) | PDF Plus (1102 KB) 

Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation

Michael G. Christel

Abstract | PDF (8225 KB) | PDF Plus (1755 KB)