"Multiple
Viewpoints as an Approach to Digital Library Interfaces,"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
and Technology (to appear).
Powell, A. L. and J. C. French
"Comparing the Performance of Collection Selection Algorithms,""
ACM Transactions on Information Systems, vol. 21, no. 4, October 2003, pp.
412-456
"Exploiting Manual Indexing to Improve Collection
Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness" Information Retrieval, vol. 5, no. 4,
October 2002, pp. 323-351.
"Content Locality in Distributed Digital Libraries," Information
Processing and Management, vol 35, no. 3 (May 1999), pp 317-336.
Schulman, E., J. C. French, A. L. Powell, G. Eichhorn, M. J. Kurtz and S. S. Murray
"Trends in Astronomical Publication between 1975 and 1996"
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
vol. 109 (Nov. 1997), pp. 1278-1284.
French, J. C., D. E. Brown, and N. H. Kim
"A Classification Approach to Boolean Query Reformulation" Journal of the American Society for
Information Science, vol. 48, no. 8 (August 1997), pp. 694-706.
Kim, N. H., J. C. French, and D. E. Brown
"Development of New Retrieval Performance Measures for Query Reformulation Algorithms" Transactions of
the Korean Information Processing Society, vol. 4, no. 4 (April 1997), pp. 963-972.
Kim, N. H., D. E. Brown, and J. C. French
"Time Complexity Analysis of Boolean Query Formulation Algorithms" Transactions of the Korean
Information Processing Society, vol. 4, no. 3 (March 1997), pp. 709-719.
French, J. C., J. C. Knight, and A. L. Powell
"Applying Hypertext Structures to Software Documentation" Information Processing and
Management, vol. 33, no. 2 (March 1997), pp. 219-231.
"Ensuring Retrieval Effectiveness in Distributed Digital Libraries" ournal of Visual Communication
and Image Representation, vol. 7, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 61-73.
French, J. C., E. Fox, K. Maly, A. Selman
"Wide Area Technical Report Service: Technical Reports Online" Communications of the ACM, vol. 38, no. 4 (April 1995), pp. 45.
"The Library Access, Search and Retrieval Pilot
Project for the Global Change Data and Information
System" Library Hi Tech, issue 49-50, vol. 13 no.
1-2 (1995), pp. 19-21.
French, J. C.
"DIRE: An Approach to Improving Scientific
Communication" Information and Decision
Technologies, vol. 19 (1994), pp. 527-541.
"Improving Image Retrieval Effectiveness via Multiple Queries,"
First ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases
(ACM-MMDB 2003), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 7, 2003,
pp. 86-93.
French, J. C., J. V. S. Watson, X. Jin and W. N. Martin
"An Exogenous Approach for Adding Multiple Image
Representations to Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems", Seventh International Symposium
on Signal Processing and its Applications
(ISSPA 2003), Paris, July 1-4, 2003.
"Multiple Viewpoints: A Strategy for Searching Multimedia
Content," Workshop on Multimedia Content in Digital Libraries
Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2-3, 2003.
French, J. C., A. C. Chapin and W. N. Martin,
"An Application of Multiple Viewpoints to Content-Based
Image Retrieval," Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
(JCDL 2003), Houston, Texas, May 27-31, 2003.
French, J. C., J. V. S. Watson, X. Jin and W. N. Martin,
"Integrating Multiple Multi-Channel CBIR Systems,"
International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems
(MIS 2003), Ischia, Italy, May 26-28, 2003, pp. 85-95.
"Obtaining Language Models of Web Collections Using
Query-Based Sampling Techniques,"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-35): Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Jan. 2002 (to
appear).
"Flycasting: Using
Collaborative Filtering to Generate a Playlist for Online
Radio," International Conference on Web Delivery of Music,
Florence, Italy, Nov. 2001 (to appear).
"Exploiting A Controlled Vocabulary to Improve Collection
Selection and Retrieval Effectiveness," Tenth
International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2001), Nov. 2001 (to appear).
"Flycasting: On the Fly
Broadcasting," Joint DELOS-NSF International Workshop on
Personalization and Recommender Systems in Digital
Libraries, Dublin, Ireland, June 18-20, 2001, pp. 89-93.
"Metrics for Evaluating Database Selection Techniques,"
Proc. Tenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'99),
Florence, Italy, Sept. 1999, pp. 726-730.
"Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries",
Proc. Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Berkeley, CA, August
1999, pp. 171-178.
"Electronic Theses and Dissertations at the
University of Virginia Library,"
Proc. Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries,
Berkley, CA, August 1999, pp. 246-247.
French, J. C., A. L. Powell, J. Callan, C. L. Viles, T.
Emmitt, K. J. Prey, Y. Mou
"Compairing the Performance of Database Selection
Alogrithms" Proc. 22st International Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR'99), Berkley, CA, August 1999, pp. 238-245.
Ganti, V., R. Ramakrishnan, J. Gehrke, A. Powell, J.
French
"Clustering Large Datasets in Arbitrary Metric
Spaces" Proc. 15th International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE'99), Sydney, Australia, March 1999
French, J. C., A. L. Powell, C. L. Viles, T. Emmitt and
K. Prey
"Evaluating Database Selection Techniques: A Testbed
and Experiment" Proc. 21st International Conference
on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR'98), Melbourne, Australia, August 1998.
French, J. C., A. L. Powell, and W. R. Creighton III
"Efficient Searching in Distributed Digital
Libraries" Proc. 3rd ACM International Conference on
Digital Libraries (DL'98), Pittsburgh, PA, June 23-26,
1998.
"Applications of Approximate Word Matching in
Information Retrieval," Proc. 6th International
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
(CIKM'97), Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 1997, pp. 9-15.
French, J. C., A. L. Powell, E. Schulman and J. L. Pfaltz
"Automating the Construction of Authority Files in
Digital Libraries: A Case Study," Proc. First
European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
forDigital Libraries (ECDL'97), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 1324, C. Peters and C. Thanos (eds.),
Springer-Verlag, Pisa, 1-3 September 1997, pp. 55-71.
"A Systematic Approach to Creating and Maintaining
Software Documentation"
Proc. 1996 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 96),
Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 1996, pp. 201-208.
Barros, J. E., J. C. French, W. N. Martin, P. Kelly, and
M. Cannon
"Using the Triangle Inequality to Reduce the Number
of Comparisons Required for Similarity-Based
Retrieval" Electronic Imaging '96, Storage and
Retrieval for Image and Video Databases IV, San Jose, CA,
(Feb. 1996), 392-403.
Viles, C. L. and J. C. French
"On the Update of Term Weights in Dynamic
Information Retrieval Systems" Proc. 4th
International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (CIKM'95), Baltimore, Maryland, Nov. 1995, pp.
167-174.
"Trading Efficiency for Effectiveness in
Similarity-Based Indexing for Image Databases" in
Digital Image Storage and Archiving Systems, C.-C. Jay
Kuo, Editor, Proc. SPIE 2606 (1995), pp. 276-287.
Viles, C. L. and J. C. French
"Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in a
Distributed Information Retrieval System" Proc. 18th
International Conference on Research and Development in
Information Retrieval (SIGIR'95), Seattle, WA, July 1995,
pp. 12-20.
Barros, J. E., J. C. French, W. N. Martin, and P. Kelly
"System for Indexing Multispectral Satellite Images
for Efficient Content-Based Retrieval" in Storage
and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases III, W.
Niblack, R. C. Jain, editors, Proc. SPIE 2420, Feb. 1995,
pp. 228-237.
"Wide Area Technical Report Service" Proc. 2nd
International World Wide Web Conference, WWW'94 Oct.
1994, pp. 523-533.
Barros, J. E., J. C. French, W. N. Martin, P. Kelly, and
J. M. White
"Indexing Image Databases for Content Based
Retrieval" in Image and Information Systems:
Applications and Opportunities (23rd AIPR Workshop),
Proc. SPIE 2368, Oct. 1994, pp. 25-36.
"Boolean Query Reformulation with the Query Tree
Classifier" in Advances in Classification Research,
vol. 4, Learned Information, 1994, pp. 123-138.
French, J. C.
"An Environment for Passively Sharing
Information" Proc. International Space Year
Conference on Earth and Space Science Information
Systems, Feb. 1992, pp 632-637.
"Using Multiple Views of a Document Collection in
Information Exploration" CHI'98 Workshop on
Innovation and Evaluation in Information Exploration
Interfaces, Los Angeles, CA, April 19, 1998.
Powell, A. L. and J. C. French
"Using Topic Information to Improve Access to
Scientific Document Collections" SIGIR Workshop on
Summarization and Visualization for IR: Reducing the
Information Overload, Philadelphia, PA, July 31, 1997.
French, J. C.
"Database Support for Correlation and Fusion
Algorithms" Workshop on Data Mapping and Matching,
NASA CESDIS, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,
Nov. 7, 1996.
French, J. C.
"Networked Computer Science Technical Reports
Library" SURA Workshop on Electronic Theses and
Dissertations, Charlotte, NC, August 1-2, 1996.
French, J. C.
"Networked Computer Science Technical Reports
Library" Dagstuhl Workshop on Networked
Information Systems: Discovery, Retrieval, Dissemination,
Saarbrucken, Germany, Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 1996.
French, J. C.
"NCSTRL: Preliminary Evaluation" NCSTRL
Technical Review, CNRI, Reston, VA, March 20, 1996.
French, J. C.
"Library Access, Search, and Retrieval (LASR)
Pilot" GCDIS Subgroup of the CENR Task Force on
Observations and Data Management, Data Management Working
Group of the U.S. Global Change Research Program,
Washington, DC, March 14, 1996.
French, J. C.
"Library Access, Search, and Retrieval (LASR)
Pilot" Data Management Working Group of the U.S.
Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, March 14,
1996.
French, J. C. and C. Lagoze
"Networked Computer Science Technical Reports
Library" Dagstuhl Workshop on Networked Information
Systems: Discovery, Retrieval, Dissemination,
Saarbrucken, Germany, Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 1996.
"Library Access, Search, and Retrieval (LASR)
Pilot" Global Climate Data and Information System
(GCDIS) Data Center Workshop, Oak Ridge, TN, Sept. 12-14,
1995.
Srinivasa, R., T. Phan, N. Mohanraj, A. L. Powell and J. C.
French,
"Database Selection Using Document and Collection Term Frequencies,"
Technical Report CS-2000-32, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Virginia, May 2000.
Callan, J., A. L. Powell, J. C. French and M. Connell,
"The Effects of Query-Based Sampling on Automatic Database
Selection Algorithms,"
Technical Report CMU-LTI-00-162,
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University, 2000.
Dushay, N., J. C. French and C. Lagoze,
"Predicting Indexer Performance in a Distributed Digital Library,"
Technical Report TR99-1743, Dept. of Computer Science,"
Cornell University, May 1999.
"Effective and Efficient Automatic Database Selection,"
Technical Report CS-99-08, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Virginia, February 22, 1999.
French, J. C., A. L. Powell, J. Callan, C. L. Viles,
T. Emmitt, K. J. Prey and Y. Mou,
"Comparing the Performance of Database Selection
Algorithms,"
Technical Report CS-99-03, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Virginia, January 12, 1999.
"The Potential to
Improve Retrieval Effectiveness with Multiple Viewpoints,"
Technical Report CS-98-15, Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Virginia, May 14, 1998.
"Using N-grams to Process Hindi Queries with
Transliteration Variations" Technical Report
CS-97-17, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
July 1997.
"Automating the Construction of Authority Files in
Digital Libraries: A Case Study" Technical Report
CS-97-02, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
Jan. 1997.
"Applications of Approximate Word Matching in
Information Retrieval" Technical Report CS-97-01,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, Jan. 1997.
Schulman, E., J. C. French, A. L. Powell, S. S. Murray,
G. Eichhorn, and M. J. Kurtz
"The Sociology of Astronomical Publication Using ADS
and ADAMS" in Astronomical Data Analysis Software
and Systems VI, edited by G. C. Hunt and H. E. Payne,
A.S.P. Conference Series, Vol. 125 (1997), pp. 361-364.
Schulman, E., A. L. Powell, J. C. French, G. Eichhorn, M.
J. Kurtz, and S. S. Murray
"Using the ADS Database to Study Trends in
Astronomical Publication" Bulletin of the American
Astronomical Society, vol. 28, 4 (1996), pp. 1281.
French, J. C. and C. L. Viles
"Exploiting Coauthorship to Infer Topicality in a
Digital Library of Computer Science Technical
Reports" Technical Report CS-96-20, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, Dec. 1996.
"Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in a
Distributed Information Retrieval System" Technical
Report CS-95-02, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of
Virginia, Jan. 1995.
"Scalable Database Support for Correlation and
Fusion Algorithms" Technical Report IPC-93-05,
Institute for Parallel Computation, University of
Virginia, October 1993.
"Estimating Retrieval Regions for Correlation and
Fusion Algorithms" Technical Report IPC-93-06,
Institute for Parallel Computation, University of
Virginia, October 1993.
Maly, K., J. French, E. Fox, A. Selman
"Prototype System Puts Technical Reports On
Line" Computing Research News, vol. 5, no. 2 (Mar.
1993), pp. 14.
Maly, K. J., E. A. Fox, J. C. French and A. Selman
"Wide Area Technical Report Service" Technical
Report TR-92-44, Dept. of Computer Science, Old Dominion
Univ., Dec. 1992.
"Heuristic Clustering of Signature Files: A New
Approach (Preliminary Results)" Technical Report
CS-92-42, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
Sept. 1992.
"Electronic Distribution of Technical Reports and
Working Papers: A Simple Cooperative Approach"
Technical Report CS-92-27, Dept. of Computer Science,
Univ. of Virginia, Sept. 1992.
"TRAPS: A Translator for Postscript Documents"
Master's Project, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of
Virginia, 1991.
Das, M.
"A Study of Some Algorithms for Partitioning
Signature Files" Master's Thesis, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1991.
Terry, J.
"Collection and Distribution of Technical
Reports" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1992.
Durant, L.
"A Bibliographic Citations Query System in
ADAMS" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer Science,
Univ. of Virginia, 1992.
Barros, J.
"Scalable Database Support for Correlation and
Fusion Algorithms" Master's Project, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1993.
Henry, S.
"Evaluation of the Vector Space Model of Information
Retrieval as a Filtering Mechanism" Master's
Project, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
1993.
Kim, N.
"A Classification Approach to the Automalation of
Boolean Queries in Information Retrieval" Ph.D.
Dissertation, Dept. of Systems Engineering, Univ. of
Virginia, 1993 (coadvisor with D. E. Brown).
Zhu, X.
"IUFROS: An Individual-based User Flexible and
Redefinable Open Simulator of Forest Growth and
Succession" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1994.
Julian, F.
"Speeding Up Searches with Clustered
Signatures" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1994.
Jones, J.
"An Archive Service with Persistent Naming for
Objects" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1994.
Wohlford, G.
"Evaluation of N-Grams as Index Elements in
Information Retrieval" Master's Project, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1995.
Stumbaugh, M.
"A World-Wide Web Interface for Technical Report
Archives" Master's Project, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1995.
Powell, A.
"A Systematic Approach to Creating and Maintaining
Software Documentation" Master's Project, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 1995.
Viles, C. L.
"Maintaining Retrieval Effectiveness in Distributed,
Dynamic Information Retrieval Systems" Ph.D.
Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of
Virginia, 1996.
"Cue-Validity Variance Database Selection Algorithm
Enhancement," Master's Project, Dept. of Computer Science,
Univ. of Virginia, 1999.
Wu, B.,
"Building a Digital Library for the Publications of the
Computer Science Department,"
Master's Project,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 2000.
Phan, T.,
"A Design and Implementation of Access Control for
Distributed Digital Objects and Repositories,"
Master's Project,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 2000.
Monroe, G. A.,
"An Investigation of Language Models of Web Databases
Generated Using Query-Based Sampling Techniques,"
Master's Project,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 2000.
Powell, A. L.,
"Database Selection in Distributed Information Retrieval:
A Study of Multi-Collection Information Retrieval,"
Ph.D. Dissertation,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 2001.
(2001 UMI Doctoral Dissertation Award, American Society
for Information Science and Technology)
"Design of a Data Visualization System" Senior
Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, May
1992.
Gomez, C.
"University Course Information System: A Class
Scheduler and Course Information Database" Senior
Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, May
1993.
Gabel, J.
"Designing a Portable User Interface for Posting
Technical Reports to WATERS" Senior Thesis, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, May 1994.
Ryan, M.
"Geographic Information Systems on the World Wide
Web" Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ.
of Virginia, January 1997.
Moore, M.
"Electronic Submission of Undergraduate Theses: A
Case Study for the Implementation of a University-Wide
Program for the Electronic Submission and Online
Archiving of Theses and Dissertations" Senior
Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, May
1997.
Zha, Y.
"Electronic Publishing for a Professional Society:
Design and Implementation of Online ACM SIGIR Conference
Proceedings" Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer
Science, Univ. of Virginia, May 1997.
Nelson, E.
"Results Merging in the Networked Computer Science
Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL)" Senior Thesis,
Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, December
1997.
Young, B.
"Selective Searching over the Networked Computer
Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL)" Senior
Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
December 1997.
Connelly, Z.
"Electronic Submission of Undergraduate Theses: A
Continuation and Enhancement of the Online Archiving of
Undergraduate Theses" Senior Thesis, Dept. of
Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, May 1998.
McDonald, J.,
"Electronic Submission of Undergraduate Theses: Aesthetic
and Security Enhancements to the University of Virginia
Electronic Submission System,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2000.
Moore, J.,
"Design and Implementation of a Java-based Course Scheduler
Application for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Attending the University of Virginia,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2000.
Ogle, V.,
"Study of Search Engine Strategies through Black Box Testing,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2000.
Wong, D.,
"A Convenient Storage Catalog for Graphic Novels: Creating
an Online Searchable Database,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2000.
Robbins, B.,
"An Interactive Search Assistant for the EOS Database,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
August 2000.
Funkhouser, T. J.,
``The Technology, Culture, and Communication Toolkit:
A Web-based Application for TCC Advisors and Students,''
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 1999.
(Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium Finalist.)
Ho, S.,
"The Design and Implementation of the Online Ordering and
Delivery Tracking System,"
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
December 2000.
Hauver, D.,
``Flycasting: Using Collaborative Filtering to Generate a
Playlist for an Online Station,''
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2001.
(Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium Finalist)
Chatlani, P.,
``Relevance Feedback for Web Searches,''
Senior Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia,
May 2001.
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