SIG/ED Doctoral Seminar on Research and Career Development

October 20, 2003
Westin Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, CA

Organizer: Barbara Wildemuth, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Purpose

The purpose of this seminar is to provide a forum in which doctoral candidates and recent doctoral graduates can discuss their research and career plans with more senior scholars. During the seminar, the junior scholars will become acquainted with more senior scholars working in related areas and will have the opportunity to interact with their peers.

Participants

The following junior researchers have been invited to participate:

• Jiangping Chen (Syracuse University), The Construction, Use and Evaluation of a Lexical Knowledge Base for English-Chinese Cross Language Information Retrieval
• Anne Diekema (Syracuse University), Translation Events in Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Lexical Ambiguity, Lexical Holes, Vocabulary Mismatch, and Correct Translations [full text]
• Miles Efron (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Eigenvalue-based Estimators for Optimal Dimensionality Reduction in Information Retrieval [full text]
• Judy Jeng (Rutgers University), An Application of Formal Usability Testing to Evaluate a Digital Library, from the Perspectives of Effectiveness, Efficiency, Satisfaction, and Learnability
• Jeffrey Pomerantz (Syracuse University), Question Taxonomies for Digital Reference
• Dangzhi Zhao (Florida State University), A Comparative Citation Analysis Study of Web-based and Print Journal-based Scholarly Communication in the XML Research Field [full text]

The following senior researchers will be working with them:

• Christine Borgman, University of California, Los Angeles
• Andrew Dillon, University of Texas, Austin
• Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley
• Katherine McCain, Drexel University
• Javed Mostafa, Indiana University
• Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, College Park

Agenda