Information Literacy

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Teaching Information Literacy with Authentic Problems: Creating and Using an Online Module (with Heather Leary and Wendy Holliday), Library Faculty & Staff Presentations (2009)

The American Library Association defines information literacy as a “set of skills needed to find,...

 

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Information Literacy: Finding and Using Information, January 2009 (with Wendy Holliday and Heather Leary), Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences (2009)

This course is for learning information literacy skills, especially those related to using an academic...

 

Question Answering

Making Your Content Accessible to a Wider Audience (with J. A. Bailey, M. Cyr, R. Reitsma, and J. Sullivan), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2007)
 

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Modeling Reference Interviews as a Basis for Improving Automatic QA Systems (with N. J. McCracken, G. Ingersoll, S. C. Harwell, E. E. Allen, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Interactive Question Answering (2006)

The automatic QA system described in this paper uses a reference interview model to allow...

 

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Context-Based Question-Answering Evaluation (with E. D. Liddy and O. Yilmazel), Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval (2004)

We propose several context-based methods for text categorization. One method, a small modification to the...

 

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Evaluation of Restricted Domain Question-Answering Systems (with O. Yilmazel and E. D. Liddy), 42nd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2004)

Question-Answering (QA) evaluation efforts have largely been tailored to open-domain systems. The TREC QA test...

 

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Finding Answers to Complex Questions (with Ozgur Yilmazel, Jiangping Chen, Sarah Harwell, Lan He, and Elizabeth D. Liddy), New Directions in Question Answering (2004)

In this chapter, we motivate one potential type of future QA system that deals with...

 

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What Do You Mean? Finding Answers to Complex Questions (with O. Yilmazel, J. Chen, S. Harwell, L. He, and E. D. Liddy), AAAI Spring Symposium: New Directions in Question Answering (2003)

This paper illustrates ongoing research and issues faced when dealing with real-time questions in the...

 

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Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-2002 Question Answering Track (with J. Chen, N. McCracken, N. E. Ozgencil, M. D. Taffet, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), Text Retrieval Conference (2002)

This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the...

 

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Question-Answering: CNLP at TREC-10 Question Answering Track (with J. Chen, M. D. Taffet, N. McCracken, N. E. Ozgencil, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), Text Retrieval Conference (2001)

This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the...

 

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Question Answering : CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track (with X. Liu, J. Chen, H. Wang, N. McCracken, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), Text Retrieval Conference (2000)

This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a...

 

Educational Standards

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Unleashing the Usefulness of Educational Resources through Mining of Educational Metadata (with Jennifer A. Bailey, Blythe A. Bennett, and Holly Devaul), Open Education Conference (2008)

While there is a strong movement to develop new educational resources to bring students to...

 

Achievement Standards Architecture in the NSDL (with D. Golder, H. Devaul, K. Cariani, and S. Sutton), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2007)
 

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Standards Alignment for Metadata Assignment (with O. Yilmazel, J. Bailey, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2007)

The research in this paper describes a Machine Learning technique called hierarchical text categorization which...

 

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Text Categorization for Aligning Educational Standards (with O. Yilmazel, N. Balasubramanian, S. C. Harwell, J. Bailey, and E. D. Liddy), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2007)

Standard alignment (where standards describing similar concepts are correlated) is a necessary task in providing...

 

Automatic Standard Alignment Through Machine Learning Techniques (with S. C. Harwell, J. A. Bailey, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2006)
 

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Experimenting with the Automatic Assignment of Educational Standards to Digital Library Content (with J. Chen), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2005)

This paper describes exploratory research concerning the automatic assignment of educational standards to lesson plans....

 

NLP-based Content Standard Assignment (with N. Balasubramanian, H. Devaul, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2005)
 

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Computer-Assisted Content Standard Assignment & Alignment (with E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2004)

This project provides a mechanism for improving the ability of teachers to locate science and...

 

Automatic Mapping of Resources to Content Standards (with J. Chen and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2003)
 

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Automatic Metadata Generation & Evaluation (with E. D. Liddy, E. Allen, S. Harwell, S. Corieri, O. Yilmazel, N. E. Ozgencil, N. McCracken, J. Silverstein, and S. Sutton), Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval (2002)

The poster reports on a project in which we are investigating methods for breaking the...

 

Metadata

Text Mining Educational Metadata (with Steven A. Rowe and Blythe A. Bennett), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2008)
 

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Unleashing the Usefulness of Educational Resources through Mining of Educational Metadata (with Jennifer A. Bailey, Blythe A. Bennett, and Holly Devaul), Open Education Conference (2008)

While there is a strong movement to develop new educational resources to bring students to...

 

Achievement Standards Architecture in the NSDL (with D. Golder, H. Devaul, K. Cariani, and S. Sutton), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2007)
 

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Standards Alignment for Metadata Assignment (with O. Yilmazel, J. Bailey, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2007)

The research in this paper describes a Machine Learning technique called hierarchical text categorization which...

 

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Text Categorization for Aligning Educational Standards (with O. Yilmazel, N. Balasubramanian, S. C. Harwell, J. Bailey, and E. D. Liddy), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2007)

Standard alignment (where standards describing similar concepts are correlated) is a necessary task in providing...

 

Automatic Standard Alignment Through Machine Learning Techniques (with S. C. Harwell, J. A. Bailey, O. Yilmazel, and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2006)
 

A Retrospective on Generating & Evaluating Automatic Metadata for Educational Resources: A Holistic Program (with E. D. Liddy, J. Chen, C. M. Finneran, S. C. Harwell, and O. Yilmazel), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (2005)
 

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Experimenting with the Automatic Assignment of Educational Standards to Digital Library Content (with J. Chen), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2005)

This paper describes exploratory research concerning the automatic assignment of educational standards to lesson plans....

 

NLP-based Content Standard Assignment (with N. Balasubramanian, H. Devaul, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2005)
 

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Computer-Assisted Content Standard Assignment & Alignment (with E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2004)

This project provides a mechanism for improving the ability of teachers to locate science and...

 

Automatic Mapping of Resources to Content Standards (with J. Chen and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2003)
 

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Automatic Metadata Generation & Evaluation (with E. D. Liddy, E. Allen, S. Harwell, S. Corieri, O. Yilmazel, N. E. Ozgencil, N. McCracken, J. Silverstein, and S. Sutton), Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval (2002)

The poster reports on a project in which we are investigating methods for breaking the...

 

Digital Libraries

Achievement Standards Architecture in the NSDL (with D. Golder, H. Devaul, K. Cariani, and S. Sutton), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2007)
 

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Examining Perception of Digital Information Space (with J. A. D'Ignazio, J. D. Ryan, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2007)

A study using a modified think aloud protocol of University of Rochester undergraduate students' interactions...

 

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Experimenting with the Automatic Assignment of Educational Standards to Digital Library Content (with J. Chen), Joint Conference of Digital Libraries (JCDL) (2005)

This paper describes exploratory research concerning the automatic assignment of educational standards to lesson plans....

 

NLP-based Content Standard Assignment (with N. Balasubramanian, H. Devaul, S. C. Harwell, and E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2005)
 

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Computer-Assisted Content Standard Assignment & Alignment (with E. D. Liddy), National Science Digital Library Annual Meeting (2004)

This project provides a mechanism for improving the ability of teachers to locate science and...

 

Cross-Language Information Retrieval

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Analyst-Focused Arabic Information Retrieval (with J. Hannouche, G. Ingersoll, R. N. Oddy, and E. D. Liddy), International Conference on Intelligence Analysis (2005)

An English-Arabic Cross-Language Information Re- trieval Environment was created in which the analyst can query...

 

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Preliminary Lexical Framework for English-Arabic Semantic Resource Construction, COLING 2004 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (2004)

This paper describes preliminary work concerning the creation of a Framework to aid in lexical...

 

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Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations (2003)

Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) systems enable users to formulate queries in their native language to...

 

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Some Experiments with the Dutch Collection (with A. P. De Vries), Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (2002)

We performed some basic monolingual Dutch and bilingual English–Dutch experiments. The retrieval approach is very...

 

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Translation Events in Dutch Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (2002)

The paper describes an analysis of the translation events encountered when queries cross the language...

 

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Dutch Query Translation (with W. Hsiao), Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (2000)

This paper describes an elementary bilingual information retrieval experiment. The experiment takes Dutch topics to...

 

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Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval (with X. Liu and T. Diamond), ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Proceedings of the Workshop on Student Research (2000)

We have developed a word sense disambiguation algorithm, following Cheng and Wilensky (1997), to disambiguate...

 

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CINDOR Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval: TREC-8 Evaluation (with M. Ruiz and P. Sheridan), Text Retrieval Conference (1999)

The TREC-8 evaluation of the CINDOR system was based on English and French data from...

 

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Cross-Language Information Retrieval (with Douglas W. Oard), Annual Review of Information Science (1998)

This chapter reviews research and practice in cross-language information retrieval (CUR) that seeks to support...

 

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TREC-7 Evaluation of Conceptual Interlingua Document Retrieval (CINDOR) in English and French (with F. Oroumchian, P. Sheridan, and E. D. Liddy), Text Retrieval Conference (1998)

TextWise LLC. participated in the TREC-7 Cross-Language Retrieval track using the CINDOR system, which utilizes...

 

Primary sources

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Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings (with Heather Leary, Sheri Haderlie, and Cheryl D. Walters), D-Lib Magazine (2011)

This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12...

 

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Using Digital Primary Sources for Teaching K-12 (with Cheryl D. Walters, Sheri Haderlie, and Heather Leary), Utah Education Association Convention (2009)

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to...

 

Digital collections

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Tools for Using and Organizing Online Resources to Enhance Reference and Instruction (with Sheri Haderlie, Heather Leary, and Cheryl D. Walters), Utah Library Association (2010)

Presentation at the 2010 Utah Library Association annual conference. This presentation addressed different tools that...

 

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Using Digital Primary Sources for Teaching K-12 (with Cheryl D. Walters, Sheri Haderlie, and Heather Leary), Utah Education Association Convention (2009)

USU faculty and northern Utah K-12 teachers and library media specialists talk about how to...

 

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Analysis of User Image Descriptions and Automatic Image Indexing Vocabularies: An Exploratory Study (with N. Balasubramanian and A. A. Goodrum), International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Image, Video, and Audio Retrieval and Mining (2004)

This study explores the terms assigned by users to index, manage, and describe images and...

 

Resource Discoverability

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Resource Discoverability (with Cheryl Walters and Liz Woolcott), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

Resource discoverability is the crossroads where library resources and users should come together, but do...

 

Cataloging

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Resource Discoverability at the Crossroads (with Cheryl D. Walters and Liz Woolcott), Utah Library Association Annual Conference (2010)

The Internet is changing how people find and use information. Users increasingly are discovering relevant...

 

No subject area

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Seeking a Framework to Study and Understand Personal Information Management, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2012)
 

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The Holistic Cognitive Framework for Personal Information Management Research, ITLS Faculty Publications (2012)

Descriptive Personal Information Management (PIM) studies inform us about PIM behavior and their findings should...

 

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Unifying PIM Research: Fostering a Connection Between Descriptive PIM Studies and Prescriptive Outcomes, ITLS Faculty Publications (2012)

Descriptive Personal Information Management (PIM) studies inform us about PIM behavior and their findings should...

 

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Re-framing information literacy: Problem-based learning as informed learning (with Wendy Holliday and Heather Leary), Library and Information Science Research (2011)

This study explores an online information literacy module that uses problem-based learning (PBL). The goal...

 

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Modeling Teacher Ratings of Online Resources: A Human-Machine Approach to Quality (with Mimi Recker, Heather Leary, Andrew Walker, Philipp Wetzler, Tamara Sumner, and James Martin), American Educational Reserach Association (2011)

In education, the scalable deployment of media-rich online resources supports peer production in ways that...

 

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Evaluation of restricted domain Question-Answering systems (with Ozgur Yilmazel and Elizabeth D. Liddy), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2004)

Question-Answering (QA) evaluation efforts have largely been tailored to open-domain systems. The TREC QA test...

 

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What do You Mean? Finding Answers to Complex Questions (with Ozgur Yilmazel, Jiangping Chen, Sarah Harwell, Elizabeth D. Liddy, and Lan He), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2003)

This paper illustrates ongoing research and issues faced when dealing with real-time questions in the...

 

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Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-10 Question Answering Track (with Jiangping Chen, Mary D. Taffet, Nancy McCracken, Necati Ercan Ozgencil, Ozgur Yilmazel, and Elizabeth D. Liddy), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2000)

This paper describes the retrieval experiments for the main task and list task of the...

 

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Question Answering: CNLP at the TREC-9 Question Answering Track (with Xiaoyong Liu, Jiangping Chen, Hudong Wang, Nancy McCracken, Ozgur Yilmazel, and Elizabeth D. Liddy), iSchool Faculty Scholarship (2000)

This paper describes a question answering system that automatically finds answers to questions in a...