AAAI Seminar on Machine Learning in Information Access

A collection of papers presented at a March, 1996 seminar at Stanford University sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Andersen Consulting

A paper by Bruce Krulwich of the Intelligent Agents Research Lab about a content-based filtering system for Lotus Notes.

AT&T Research

Material on information filtering by David Lewis and William Cohen.

Baclace.Net

A paper presented at the Bellcore High Performance Information Filtering workshop in 1991 by Paul E. Baclace.

California State University San Bernardino

A paper by Kerstin Voigt on application of a probabilistic model to adapting a World Wide Web browser.

CICESE

A paper by Jesus Favela of the Mexican Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) on guided information exploration.

Collaborative Filtering Research Papers

A list of research papers on collaborative filtering with abstracts and hyperlinks to the full papers. It is maintained by JamesThornton.com.

Dartmouth

A current awareness service that repatedly reruns Alta Vista and Lycos searches and alerts the user about new web pages that satisfy a manually specified profile.

Georgia Tech

A paper from the December 1992 Communications of the ACM by Ashwin Ram on the use of natural language processing techniques for filtering. An core complete of the paper that was presented at the 1991 Bellcore Workshop on Information Filtering can be found here.

IBM

A paper on the Rufus object oriented framework for information filtering and other information management applications by Eli Messinger and others. A paper about a rule-based filtering system used at IBM by Benjamin Grosof and Davis Foulger can be found here.

Indiana University

Papers by Javed Mostafa and others about a system called SIFTER.

JAIST

A paper presented at SIGIR 94 by Masahiro Morita and Yoichi Shinoda of the Shinoda Lab at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Several Japanese-language documents on filtering by Masahiro Morita are also available, including his 1994 Masters thesis, a 1993 survey of information filtering technology, a shorter survey on the same subject, a 1994 paper, and a 1993 paper. Kanji fonts and a kanji-aware version of ghostscript (version 2.9.10 or higher) are required to display the Japanese-language documents.

Johns Hopkins University

A paper on filtering USENET news by Scott Weiss.

LaSalle University

A dissertation on information dissemination by Mitch Wyle.

MIT

Papers on filtering electronic mail and USENET news by members of the Media Lab Autonomous Agents Group. Another paper on collaborative filtering from CHI 95 is here and a paper on the Letizia intelligent World Wide Web browser by Henry Lieberman is here.

National Research Council Canada

A description by Grigoris Karakoulas and Innes Furguson of a collaborative filtering project which includes pointers to work on that subject by those authors. A broader set of project descriptions for research on information filtering in the Institute for Information Technology is also available.

New Mexico State University

Papers by Peter Foltz on information filtering using latent semantic indexing.

Nijmegen University

A recently started project which appears to be applying natural language processing to improve filtering performance.

Quinary Spa

Description of the COBALT news filtering project supported by the European Community's I*M Europe Language Engineering program.

Stanford University

Papers by Marko Balabanovic, on applications of machine learning to World Wide Web browsers.

Stockholm University

Papers describing the IntFilter project and the GHOSTS system for filtering electronic mail and USENET News designed by Jacob Palme, Fredrik Kilander and others at Stockholm University. A briefer description can be found here.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)

A paper on rule-based filtering of electronic mail written by Mitch Wyle when he was at ETHZ.

Telcordia (formerly Bellcore)

An extensive collection of material on collaborative filtering compiled by Will Hill. Papers by Susan Dumais, some of which address use of Latent Semantic Indexing for text filtering, are also available.

TREC

Proceedings of the third and fourth Text REtrieval Conferences which include routing evaluations in which several information filtering approaches are compared.

University of Aberdeen

Project summaries and papers from Pete Edwards' software agent/machine learning group. Systems include a mail filtering agent, a USENET news filter, and a learning agent for the World Wide Web.

University of Arizona

Papers on filtering using neural networks, genetic algorithms and symbolic learning by Hsinchun Chen and members of his Artificial Intelligence Lab.

University of California at Berkeley

An extensive set of links to work on Collaborative Filtering that is maintained by Hal Varian

University of California at Davis

A P.D. dissertation on the INFOS system for filtering USENET News by Kenrick Mock of the AI Lab. Other papers on this work can be found here.

University of California at Irvine

A paper filtering the World Wide Web by Michael Pazzani. Another paper describing his system ("Syskill and Webert") is here.

University College Cork, Ireland

Papers on filtering USENET News using machine learning by Michael McElligott and Humphrey Sorensen.

University of Colorado at Boulder

Papers and a Ph.D. Dissertation on the InfoScope system for filtering USENET news using boolean agents by Curt Stevens. These documents are also available via FTP here.

University of Hawaii

Papers on the URN system for collaborative filtering of USENET news by Rober Brewer of the Collaborative Software Development Laboratory.

University of Maryland

Papers on text filtering by Doug Oard and others.

University of Massachusetts

Material on information filtering from the Inquery project.

University of North Carolina

A paper profiling users of filtering systems and an information filtering bibliography by Steve Gant of the School of Information and Library Science.

University of Vienna

A list of papers by Werner Winiwarter and others from the Institute of Applied Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Vienna, Austria on information filtering using a genetic algorithm. The actual papers used to be found at ftp://ftp.ifs.univie.ac.at/pub/Winiwarter.werner/, but that server appears to be refusing anonymous connections at present.

University of Washington

The home page for a course on "Intelligent Information Internet Servers" which addressed the usefulness of information filtering technology. This page also includes pointers to papers from the 1992 special issue of the Communications of the ACM on information filtering.

University of Wisconsin

The home page for a course on "Machine Learning and Information Retrieval" which included a strong focus on information filtering from a machine learning perspective. There is an excellent bibliography of electronically available material here.

Virginia Tech

A few graphics from the 1992 special issue of CACM on information filtering.

Xerox PARC

A 1995 paper on content-based text filtering by Hinrich Schütze, David Hull and Jan Pedersen. David Hull's Ph.D. dissertation provides more details on some of the techniques. Additional details on others can be found in this paper.

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