Doug Oard's Old Papers

Old Downloadable Conference and Workshop Papers

TREC-8 Experiments at Maryland: CLIR, QA and Routing

The final proceedings paper for the Eighth Text Retrieval Conference conference, presented as a poster in Gaithersburg, MD in November, 1999.

Effects of Term Segmentation on Chinese/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Presented at the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE) in Cancun, Mexico in September, 1999.

NTCIR CLIR Experiments at the University of Maryland

Presented at the NACSIS Test Collection Information Retrieval Workshop in Tokyo, Japan in August, 1999.

TREC-7 Experiments at the University of Maryland

Paper presented at the Seventh Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-7), Gaithersburg, MD, November, 1998.

Evaluating Resources for Query Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Paper presented at the First International Conference on Language Resource Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain, May 1998

Evaluating Cross-Language Filtering Effectiveness

Presented at the Cross-Linguistic Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop at SIGIR-96, Zurich Switzerland, August 1996.

Speech-Based Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries

A technical report describing the conceptual design of a speech-based information retrieval system that we are developing. The HTML version above contains a color figure, for black and white printing is it better to use the postscript version.

Topic Tracking with the PRISE Information Retrieval System

Paper for the proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Reston, VA, February, 1999.

User Modeling for Information Filtering

A position paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling Special Interest Group on User Modeling in Information Retrieval, Hyannis, MA, August 17, 1994.

A Conceptual Framework for Text Filtering

A technical report presenting a selective survey of present practice in information filtering with an emphasis on defining the field and identifying significant research issues. A significantly improved version will appeared in the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction in 1997.

Document Translation for Cross-Language Text Retrieval at the University of Maryland

Paper presented at the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-6), Gaithersburg MD, November 1997. The work reported here formed the basis of my AMTA 98 paper.

Cross-Language Text Retrieval Research in the USA

Presented at the third ERCIM DELOS Workshop, Zurich, March 1997. This was accurate at the time and may have some historical value, but is now badly out of date.

Alignment of Spanish and English TREC Topic Descriptions

Poster paper presented at the Fifth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-5), Gaithersburg MD, November 1996. This was an important at the time because no evaluation collections that were suitable for cross-language filtering were available. The TDT-3 collection now fills that niche in a way that is more useful than that presented here.

Experimental Investigation of High Performance Cognitive and Interactive Text Filtering

Presented at the 1995 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, BC, October, 1995. The work in progress that was reported here later appeared in my dissertation.

On Automatic Filtering of Multilingual Texts

Presented at the 1994 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, San Antonio, TX, October 2-5, 1994. This was s speculative piece that laid out what could be done. My later work - particularly my dissertation or the RIAO 97 paper - would be a better place to see how it worked out.

Information Filtering and Retrieval: Overview, Issues and Directions

The background paper for a panel discussion at the 26th Annual Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Baltimore, MD, November 3-6, 1994 that I participated in. This paper appeared in the proceedings. This was a top-level overview of some issues, but is now somewhat dated.

Neural Networks in Information Filtering and Retrieval

A very informal (and now quite outdated) annotated bibliography of significant applications of connectionist networks to information filtering and retrieval. This never appeared anywhere but here, and since my work didn't evolve in that direction I never did anything further with it.

Slides from some of my talks

Searching Spoken Word Collections

Powerpoint slides from a talk at USC-ISI on August 2, 2002. This talk was subsequently given (with updates) at a number of locations in the U.S. and Europe. A later version of this talk, presented at Columbia University, is available on my main research page.

Searching Multilingual and Multimedia Libraries

Presented at the 17th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Open House, University of Maryland, June 2, 2000.

Translingual Information Access: Rapidly Retargetable Techniques for Text, Speech and Document Images

Presented at the TIDES Kickoff Meeting on March 23, 2000.

Implicit Feedback in Social Filtering

Presented at the UMBC Computer Science Graduate Seminar on October 15, 1999.

A World-Wide Perspective on the World Wide Web: Exploring Foreign Language Materials on the Internet

Demonstrations and Powerpoint slides presented at an open lecture in celebration of Maryland Day at the University of Maryland on April 24, 1999.

Multilingual Information Filtering

Some viewgraphs which provide a brief overview of the field, from a University of Maryland Digital Library Forum presentation on June 3, 1996.

Advanced User Models for Document Routing

Viewgraphs from a Computational Linguistics Seminar presentation on April 25, 1996.

Filtering Networked Information Resources

Viewgraphs from a presentation to the sixth annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval in College Park, Maryland on March 24, 1995.