• TREC group
  - (AIRS 2005): WIDIT: Fusion-based Approach to Web Search Optimization

  - (TREC 2004): WIDIT in TREC-2004
  - (TREC 2003): WIDIT in TREC-2003

• CSKD group
  - (ASIS&T 2005): A Hybrid Approach to Faceted Classification Based on Analysis of Descriptor Suffixes
  - (ICDL 2004): Generation and application of faceted vocabulary for knowledge discovery on the Web: an exploratory study
  - (JCDL 2004): A hybrid approach to generating and utilizing faceted vocabulary for knowledge discovery on the web
  - (ISKO 2004): A machine-assisted approach to generating faceted vocabulary from an existing classificatory structure
  - (ICWI 2004): Organizaing the Web: semi-automatic construction of a faceted scheme
  - (AIRS 2004): The Best of Both Worlds: A Hybrid Approach to the Construction of Faceted Vocabularies
• Yang, K.
  - (ARIST 39): Information Retrieval on the Web

• AIRS 2005 (Oct 13-15, 2005)
  - Presentation (10/14/2005)
• ASIS&T 2005 (Oct 28- Nov 2, 2005)
  - Presentation (11/01/2005)
• TREC 2005 (Nov 15- Nov 18, 2005)
  - ?: Presentation
  - ?: Poster for SPAM, HARD&ROBUST track
• SIGIR 2005 (Aug 15-19, 2005)
  - Mentoring Deadline (12/12/2005)

• TREC
  - TREC 2005: speaker proposals (09/14/05)

• Yang & Yu
  - ?: Dynamic Tuning (12/2005)
• CSKD
  - ICEIS 2005: Full paper (10/29/04)
  - ?: CSKD Overview (11/2004)
  - Webology
• DGov
  - ?: GovSearch (12/2004)
• VCoB
  - ?: FirstGov (12/2004)
• Yang & Wead
  - ?: Nice Stemmer (12/2004)

• NSF IIS SEIII (12/15/04)
  - MedInfoSys w/ Javed
• CSKD
• DGov
• VCoB

Fusion

• JASIST, IP&M, SIGIR
• Overlap Rank-based fusion
  - Extend dissertation
• Corpus
  - TREC: Web, Hard

Fusion Revisited

• SIGIR, IP&M, JASIST
• Analysis of result merging
  - Rank-based vs. no-rank overlap
  - Overlap vs. diversity
  - By topic variation?
• Corpus
  - TREC Robust, Hard, Web

Post-retrieval reranking

• Target Publication: SIGIR?
• Effects of
  - Proximity search
  - Field-specific search
  - Passage retrieval
  - Metadata
      -- Web, Hard
• Corpus
  - TREC: Genomics, Robust, Hard, Web

Indexing Revisited

• Target Publication: JDOC?
• Effects of
  - Stemming
      -- Document vs. query stemming
      -- Stemmer comparisons
  - Stopping
      -- Stopword list, frequency-based
  - Acronyms, Abbreviations, Phrases
  - Term weights: Okapi vs. SMART
• Corpus
  - TREC: Genomics, Robust, Hard, Web

Interactive Query Expansion

• Target Publication: JASIST
• Query expansion via
  - Clarification Forms
      -- Comparison of different CFs
  - Relevance Feedback

Stemming Revisited

• Target Publication: IP&M, JASIST, SIGIR
• Stemmer comparisions
  - Simple, Porter, Krovetz, Combo
• Corpus
  - TREC: Robust, Hard, Genomics

Scaling up LSI

• Target Publication: SIGIR?
• LSI strategies for large-scale collection
  - Random sampling method
  - Selective sampling method
  - Subcollection method
• Corpus
  - Genomics, Robust, Hard, Web

Approximating the Language Model

• Target Publication: SIGIR?
• Language model approximation
  - LSI
  - Random sampling
  - Selective sampling
• Corpus
  - TREC: Genomics, Robust, Hard, Web

JiTTDL

• JiTTDL extension
• NSDL
• Education grant

CSKD

• LCSH
• UMLS: NLM (NIH)
• Digital Government (NSF)
  - CSKD & DGov?

VCoB

• NSDL
  - Citation Harvester for Library Search Services
• NSF
  - Virtual Collection Builder

DGoV

• GovSearch
• FirstGov
• Digital Government (NSF)
  - CSKD & DGov