Draft Reports

• IR Models/Formalisms revised draft report of September 22 (.doc); Howard Turtle
• Cross-Language Retrieval draft report of September 23 (.doc); Ralph Weischedel
• Web Search draft report of October 24 (.doc); Alan Smeaton
• User Modeling draft report of October 28 (.txt); James Allan
• Filtering, TDT, and Classification draft report of October 21 (.txt); Victor Lavrenko
• Summarization revised draft report of October 23 (.doc); Dragomir Radev
• Testbed draft report of October 28 (.doc); Salim Roukos
• Question Answering draft report of October 6 (.txt); Andrew McCallum
• Meta Search and Distributed Retrieval draft report of November 6 (pdf),; Jay Aslam
• Multimedia draft report of October 21 (pdf), (tex); R. Manmatha
• Information Extraction (proposed) draft report of October 8 (.txt); Andrew McCallum

Teams

• John Lafferty's presentation
• Steve Robertson's presentation
  

• Philip Resnik's presentation
• Salim Roukos' presentation
  

• Thomas Hofmann's presentation
• Amit Singhal's presentation
  

• James Allan's presentation
• Nick Belkin's presentation
• Some thoughts from Norbert Fuhr (September 17)
  
• Nick Belkin's notes

• David Lewis' presentation
• Rich Schwartz' presentation

• Wessel Kraaij's and Dragomir Radev's presentation
  

Testbed
Team: Chris Buckley, John Lafferty, Dragomir Radev, Philip Resnik, Salim Roukos, Amit Singhal, Ralph Weischedel

• Salim Roukos' presentation

Question Answering
Team: Bruce Croft, Ed Hovy, Liz Liddy, Andrew McCallum, John Prager, Dragomir Radev, Ralph Weischedel

• Bruce Croft's presentation
• Ed Hovy's presentation

Meta Search and Distributed Retrieval
Team: Jay Aslam, Jamie Callan, R. Manmatha, Mark Sanderson, Ellen Voorhees

• Jamie Callan's presentation
• R. Manmatha's presentation

Multimedia
Team: Thomas Hofmann, R. Manmatha, Mark Sanderson, Rich Schwartz, Alan Smeaton

• Alan Smeaton's presentation

Miscellaneous

• James Allan's Welcome presentation
• Bruce Croft's Introduction presentation
• James Allan's Wrap-Up presentation
• James Allan's notes

Participants

James Allan, Univ.of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jay Aslam, Dartmouth College
Nick Belkin, Rutgers University
Chris Buckley, SabIR Research
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce Croft, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Sue Dumais, Microsoft Research
Norbert Fuhr, University of Dortmund
Donna Harman, NIST
David Harper, Robert Gordon University
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
Thomas Hofmann, Brown University
Ed Hovy, ISI
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD
Victor Lavrenko, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University
David Lewis, Independent Consultant
Liz Liddy, Syracuse University
R. Manmatha, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andrew McCallum, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
John Prager, IBM
John Prange, ARDA
Jay Ponte, Mitre Corporation
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Steve Robertson, Microsoft Research
Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University
Salim Roukos, IBM
Mark Sanderson, Sheffield University
Rich Schwartz, BBN
Amit Singhal, Google
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University
Thi Nhu Truong, Carnegie Mellon University
Howard Turtle, Independent Consultant
Ellen Voorhees, NIST
Ralph Weischedel, BBN
Jinxi Xu, BBN
Cheng Zhai, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Background Reading

• J. Ponte and W. B. Croft. A language modeling approach to information retrieval. Proceedings of
  the ACM SIGIR, pp. 275-281, 1998.
• A. Berger and J. Lafferty, Information retrieval as statistical translation, in Proceedings of the 1999
  ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pages 222-229,
  1999.
• Ronald Rosenfeld, Two decades of Statistical Language Modeling: Where Do We Go From Here? Proceedings of the IEEE, 88(8), 2000.
• D. H. Miller, T. Leek, and R. Schwartz. A hidden Markov model information retrieval system. In
  Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information
  Retrieval, pp. 214-221, 1999.
• D. Hiemstra and W. Kraaij. Twenty-one at TREC-7: Ad-hoc and cross-language track. In Proc.
  of Seventh Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-7), 1998.
• C. Zhai and J. Lafferty. A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to ad hoc
  information retrieval, In 24th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in
  Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001.
• J. Lafferty and C. Zhai. Risk minimization and language modeling in information retrieval. In 24th
  ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01),
  2001.
• V. Lavrenko and W. B. Croft. Relevance-based language models. In 24th ACM SIGIR
  Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'01), 2001.
• J. Callan, W. B. Croft, and J. Lafferty, eds. Workshop on language modeling and information retrieval.
  Proceedings of a workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University, May 31-June 1, 2001.
• Some chapters of Manning and Shutz's Introduction to Statistical Natural Language Processing are also valuable for a background to some of the issues. Important chapters include Chapters 2 (especially Section 2.2) and 6 (especially Sections 6.2 and 6.3). Other interesting chapters include Chapters 5, 14 (especially Sections 14.1.3 and 14.2.2), and 15.
• The Asilomar Report on Database Research.

Support

Participants may be reimbursed for some or all of their travel and lodging costs (meals during the workshop are provided gratis). Invitees will receive an email message indicating what is being covered and providing additional instructions. If you have not received such a message by August 1, please contact R. Manmatha. If you have additional questions about reimbursements after receiving your message, please contact Jill Lentz.

Organizers

James Allan, University of Massachusetts
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University
W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts
John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University
R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts

Local Organization

James Allan, University of Massachusetts
R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts

Sponsor