Technical Area: Personalized Information Management

Examiner:

Walter Bender

Principal Research Scientist

Media Arts and Sciences Program

Signature:

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Walter Bender, Principal Research Scientist

Written Requirement: The written requirement for this area will consist of a take-home exam of approximately three questions whose answers will require a good grasp of the text retrieval methods and techniques for personalizing information, to be evaluated by Walter Bender.

Note: readings in green are readings not in the official, signed proposal, but which I discovered later and think would be of interest to others.

Text Retrieval

• Berry, Michael W. & Susan T. Dumais, "Using Linear Algebra for Intelligent Information Retrieval", CS-94-270, University of Tennessee.
• Chakravarthy, Anil S. Information Access and Retrieval with Semantic Background Knowledge, PhD Thesis, MIT Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1995
• Communications of the ACM special issue on Information Filtering, CACM v35, n12, Dec 1992. Shoshana Loeb and Douglas Terry, eds.

• Proceedings of the Text REtrieval Conference, 1995 and 1996 (TREC 4, TREC 5, TREC 6, and TREC 7)
• Frakes, WB and R Baewa-Yates: Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 92
• Jones, Karen S, and P. Willet, "Readings in Information Retrieval", Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1997.
• Salton, G. and McGill, MJ "Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval", McGraw-Hill, 1983

Personal Information Systems

• "Answer Garden: A tool for Growing Organizational Memory", Mark S. Ackerman and Thomas W. Malone, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Office Information Systems, pp. 31-39.
• "Answer Garden 2: Merging Organizational Memory with Collaborative Help", Mark S. Ackerman, David W. McDonald, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW '96), pp. 97-105
• Eric Freeman and David Gelernter, "Lifestreams: A storage Model for Personal Data", ACM SIGMOD Bulletin, March, 1996.
• Eric Freeman and Scott Fertig, "Lifestreams: Organizing your Electronic Life", AAAI Fall Symposium: AI applications in Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval, Nov 1995
• J. Orwant. "For want of a bit the user was lost: Cheap user modeling." IBM Systems Journal, 35(3), 1996. http://isj.www.media.mit.edu/projects/isj/SectionB/398.htm
• J. Orwant, MS thesis. "Doppleganger"
• Tom Malone, K. Lai, and C. Fry. Experiments with Oval: A radically-tailorable tool for cooperative work. ACM Trans. on Info. Sys., 13(2):177-205, 1995
• S. Elo, "PLUM: Contextualizing News for Communities Through Augmentation". MS Thesis. http://mu.www.media.mit.edu/people/elo/www/thesis-doc.html

Collaborative Information Filtering

• W. Bender, P. Chesnais, S. Elo, A. Shaw, and M. Shaw. "Enriching communities": Harbingers of news in the future. IBM Systems Journal, 35(3), 1996. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/sj/mit/sectionb/chesnais.html
• J. Donath and N. Robertson. "The sociable web." In 2nd Inter. WWW Conf., Chicago, IL, 1994. http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/SocialWeb/SociableWeb.html
• M Evard. "Twenty Heads are Better Than One". PhD Thesis. 1997.
• Yezdi Lashkari, Max Metral, and Pattie Maes, "Collaborative interface agents," in 12th National Conference on AI, 1994
• Communications of the ACM special section on Recommender Systems, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 1997. Paul Resnick and Hal R. Varian, eds. http://www.acm.org/cacm/MAR97/marchtoc.html
• U. Shardanand and P. Maes, "Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating 'Word of Mouth' ," Proceedings of the CHI-95 Conference, Denver, CO, ACM Press, May 1995
• People Helping One Another Know Stuff: Loren Terveen (Bell Labs) Loren G. Terveen, William C. Hill, Brian Amento, David McDonald, Josh Creter, "Building Task-Specific Interfaces to High Volume Conversational Data, Proceedings of SIGCHI-97 http://www.phoaks.com/