Notes

• The ACM Digital Library is available here. (If you are not using a machine in the uiuc domain, click here)
• Candidate research problems/topics nominated by the students are here)
• Please email me (czhai AT uiuc DOT edu) any pointer that should be linked to this page.

Core IR Conferences

• ACM SIGIR Conferences
• ACM CIKM Conferences
• TREC Conferences

Web Information Management

• World Wide Web Conferences
• More to be added ...

Email Management

• CEAS conferences: CEAS 2005, CEAS 2004 SPAM Conferences
• More to be added...

Literature Management

• JCDL 2005
• BioNLP
• TREC Genomics Track
• An e-humanities report
• The Online Books Page
• More to be added....

NSF Information

• IDM 2004 PI workshop Proceedings
• NSF IDM Call for Proposals

NLP-related resources

• Statistical natural language processing and corpus-based computational linguistics: An annotated list of resources (Stanford)

IR toolkit

• Lemur (CMU/Univ. of Massachusetts)
• Smart (Cornell)
• MG (Joint effort of several Australia universities)
• IR Systems and Tools

Other online resources

1. Development Related
   • Sample perl scripts
   • wget web crawler (a publically available web crawler, available on CSIL machines at /usr/dcs/software/supported/bin/wget)
   • Information Extraction Resouces (RISE) (A comprehensive list of IE-related projects, papers, people, and data sets, including the seminar data set)
2. Mathematics
• Tutorial on optimization theory and difference and differential equations by Martin J. Osborne
• Lagrange Multipliers without Permanent Scarring (by Dan Klein)
3. Tutorials
   • Explanation of some TREC evaluation measures
   • Lan Huang, A Survey On Web Information Retrieval Technologies
   • Stefano Mizzaro, Intelligent Interfaces for Information Retrieval: A Review
   • Ed Greengrass, Information Retrieval: A Survey
   • Search Engine Meeting 2002
   • A Roadmap to Text Mining and Web Mining
   • Data mining for hypertext: A tutorial

General Advice on Research

• What is Research in Computer Science
• Basic Research Skills in Computer Science
• Advice on Research and Writing (for computer scientists)