Information Processing and Management, Volume 38

Volume 38, Number 1, 2002

• Carolyn J. Crouch, Donald B. Crouch, Qingyan Chen, Steven J. Holtz: Improving the retrieval effectiveness of very short queries. 1-36
• Charles Cole, Bertie Mandelblatt, John Stevenson: Visualizing a high recall search strategy output for undergraduates in an exploration stage of researching a term paper. 37-54
• Hong (Iris) Xie: Patterns between interactive intentions and information-seeking strategies. 55-77
• Vicente P. Guerrero Bote, Félix de Moya Anegón, Victor Herrero Solana: Document organization using Kohonen's algorithm. 79-89
• Byung-Ju Kang, Key-Sun Choi: Effective foreign word extraction for Korean information retrieval. 91-109
• George V. Meghabghab: Discovering authorities and hubs in different topological web graph structures. 111-140
• Abbe Mowshowitz, Akira Kawaguchi: Assessing bias in search engines. 141-156

Volume 38, Number 2, 2002

• El-Sayed Atlam, Makoto Okada, Masami Shishibori, Jun-Ichi Aoe: An evaluation method of words tendency depending on time-series variation and its improvements. 157-171
• Samuel Sangkon Lee, Masami Shishibori, Toru Sumitomo, Jun-Ichi Aoe: Extraction of field-coherent passages. 173-207
• M. Carl Drott: Indexing aids at corporate websites: the use of robots.txt and META tags. 209-219
• Minsoo Jung, Masami Shishibori, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Jun-Ichi Aoe: A dynamic construction algorithm for the Compact Patricia trie using the hierarchical structure. 221-236
• Kwong Bor Ng: The applicability of universal pragmatics in information retrieval interaction: a pilot study. 237-248
• Donald Byrd, Tim Crawford: Problems of music information retrieval in the real world. 249-272
• David C. Blair: The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part I: Major issues, and a framework based on search exhaustivity, determinacy of representation and document collection size. 273-291
• David C. Blair: The challenge of commercial document retrieval, Part II: a strategy for document searching based on identifiable document partitions. 293-304

Volume 38, Number 3, 2002

• Harris Drucker, Behzad Shahraray, David C. Gibbon: Support vector machines: relevance feedback and information retrieval. 305-323
• Jin Zhang, Edie M. Rasmussen: An experimental study on the iso-content-based angle similarity measure. 325-342
• Hang Li, Kenji Yamanishi: Text classification using ESC-based stochastic decision lists. 343-361
• David C. Blair, Steven O. Kimbrough: Exemplary documents: a foundation for information retrieval design. 363-379
• Marcia J. Bates: The cascade of interactions in the digital library interface. 381-400
• Amanda Spink: A user-centered approach to evaluating human interaction with Web search engines: an exploratory study. 401-426
• Andrew Large, Jamshid Beheshti, Tarjin Rahman: Gender differences in collaborative Web searching behavior: an elementary school study. 427-443
• David C. Blair: Some thoughts on the reported results of TREC. 445-451

Volume 38, Number 4, 2002

• Amanda Spink, Huseyin Cenk Ozmutlu: Characteristics of question format web queries: an exploratory study. 453-471
• Huseyin Cenk Ozmutlu, Amanda Spink, Seda Ozmutlu: Analysis of large data logs: an application of Poisson sampling on excite web queries. 473-490
• Yulan He, Siu Cheung Hui: Mining a Web Citation Database for author co-citation analysis. 491-508
• Junhyeok Shim, Dongseok Kim, Jeongwon Cha, Gary Geunbae Lee, Jungyun Seo: Integrated multi-strategic Web document pre-processing for sentence and word boundary detection. 509-527
• Chade-Meng Tan, Yuan-Fang Wang, Chan-Do Lee: The use of bigrams to enhance text categorization. 529-546
• Brian Fox, Christopher J. Fox: Efficient stemmer generation. 547-558
• Anastasios Tombros, Robert Villa, C. J. van Rijsbergen: The effectiveness of query-specific hierarchic clustering in information retrieval. 559-582
• Salvador Nieto Sánchez, Evangelos Triantaphyllou, Donald H. Kraft: A feature mining based approach for the classification of text documents into disjoint classes. 583-604

Volume 38, Number 5, 2002

• Colleen Cool, Amanda Spink: Issues of context in information retrieval (IR): an introduction to the special issue. 605-611
• Kwong Bor Ng: Toward a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between situated action and planned action models of behavior in information retrieval contexts: contributions from phenomenology. 613-626
• Dietmar Wolfram, Hong (Iris) Xie: Traditional IR for web users: a context for general audience digital libraries. 627-648
• Dania Bilal, Joe Kirby: Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as Web users. 649-670
• Luz Marina Quiroga, Javed Mostafa: An experiment in building profiles in information filtering: the role of context of user relevance feedback. 671-694
• Youngok Choi, Edie M. Rasmussen: Users' relevance criteria in image retrieval in American history. 695-726
• Daqing He, Ayse Göker, David J. Harper: Combining evidence for automatic Web session identification. 727-742

Volume 38, Number 6, November 2002

• Daniel Z. Zanger:
  Interpolation of the extended Boolean retrieval model. 743-748
  
• Xiaoying Tai, Fuji Ren, Kenji Kita:
  An information retrieval model based on vector space method by supervised learning. 749-764
  
• Christian Jacquemin, Béatrice Daille, Jean Royauté, Xavier Polanco:
  In vitro evaluation of a program for machine-aided indexing. 765-792
  
• Cristina López-Pujalte, Vicente P. Guerrero Bote, Félix de Moya Anegón:
  A test of genetic algorithms in relevance feedback. 793-805
  
• El-Sayed Atlam, Kazuhiro Morita, Masao Fuketa, Jun-Ichi Aoe:
  A new method for selecting English field association terms of compound words and its knowledge representation. 807-821
  
• Leo Egghe, Christine Michel:
  Strong similarity measures for ordered sets of documents in information retrieval. 823-848