ROBERT M. LOSEE, PH.D

 

School Address: School of Information and Library Science U. of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 (919) 962-7150 losee@ils.unc.edu http://ils.unc.edu/losee

Home Address: 106 Braswell Rd. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 929-0370

Education:

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Ph.D., March 1986.

University of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
M.A. in Divinity, March 1978.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
M.S. in Library and Information Science, May 1975.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
B.A. in Linguistics, May 1973. Magna Cum Laude, with Honors in Linguistics.

Employment:

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 1986-present
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (tenured), Professor

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 1980, 1981, 1985-1986

Visiting Assistant Professor, Instructor, and Assistant Professor

City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1975-1985

Instructor, Assistant Professor (Tenured), and Department Chairman in

Business and Data Processing departments

Books:

Text Retrieval and Filtering: Analytic Models of Performance, Boston: Kluwer, 1998.

The Science of Information: Measurement and Applications, San Diego: Academic Press, 1990.

Articles:

"A Discipline Independent Definition of Information," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48 (3) 1997, 254-269.

"Comparing Boolean and Probabilistic Information Retrieval Systems across Queries and Disciplines," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 48 (2) 1997, 143-156.

"Browsing Document Collections: Automatically Organizing Digital Libraries and Hypermedia using the Gray Code," Information Processing & Management, 33 (2) 1997, 175-192.

"Evaluating Retrieval Performance Given Database and Query Characteristics: Analytic Determination of Performance Surfaces," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47 (1) 1996, 95-105.

"Text Windows and Phrases Differing by Discipline, Location in Document, and Syntactic Structure," Information Processing & Management, 32 (6) 1996, 747-767.

"Feedback in Information Retrieval," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 31 1996, 33-78. (Spink & Losee).

"Learning Syntactic Rules and Tags with Genetic Algorithms for Information Retrieval and Filtering: An Empirical Basis for Grammatical Rules," Information Processing & Management, 32 (2) 1996, 185-197.

"Sublanguage Terms: Dictionaries, Usage, and Automatic Classification," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 46 (7) 1995, 519-529. (Losee & Haas)

"Upper Bounds for Retrieval Performance and Their Use Measuring Performance and Generating Optimal Boolean Queries: Can it Get Any Better Than This?" Information Processing & Management, 30 (2) 1994, 193-203.

"Term Dependence: Truncating the Bahadur Lazarsfeld Expansion," Information Processing & Management, 30 (2) 1994, 293-303.

"Seven Fundamental Questions for the Science of Library Classification," Knowledge Organization, 20 (2) 1993, 65-70.

"The Relative Shelf Location of Circulated Books: A Study of Classification, Users, and Browsing," Library Resources & Technical Services, 37 (2) 1993, 197-209.

"A Gray Code Based Ordering for Documents on Shelves: Classification for Browsing and Retrieval," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 43 (4) 1992, 312-322.

"An Analytic Measure Predicting Information Retrieval System Performance," Information Processing & Management, 27 (1) 1991, 1-13.

"Information in a Data Collection: Models of Database and Library Quality," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 41 (5) 1990, 359-367.

"The Object-Oriented Paradigm for Library Systems Development," Information Technology & Libraries: Journal of the Library and Information Technology Association of ALA, 9 (1) 1990, 74-79.

"Minimizing Information Overload: The Ranking of Electronic Messages," Journal of Information Science, 15 (3) 1989, 179-189.

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