Computational Information Retrieval Workshop held October 2000, Raleigh, North Carolina This volume contains selected papers that focus on the use of linear algebra, computational statistics, and computer science in the development of algorithms and software systems for text retrieval. Experts in information modeling and retrieval share their perspectives on the design of scalable but precise text retrieval systems, revealing many of the challenges and obstacles that mathematical and statistical models must overcome to be viable for automated text processing. This very useful proceedings is an excellent companion for courses in information retrieval, applied linear algebra, and applied statistics.
Michael W. Berry holds the title of Full Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Prof. Berry is the co-author of "Templates for the Solution of Linear Systems:
Building Blocks for Iterative Methods" (SIAM, 1994) and "Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, Second Edition" (Bestseller, SIAM, 2005) and editor of "Computational Information Retrieval" (SIAM, 2001), "Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval" (Springer-Verlag, 2003, 2007), "Lecture Notes in Data Mining" (Bestseller, World Scientific, 2006), and "Text Mining: Applications and Theory" (Wiley, 2010). He has published well over 100 peer-refereed journal and conference publications.
He has organized numerous workshops on Text Mining and was Conference Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Third International Conference on Data Mining (May 1-3) in San Francisco, CA. He was also Program Co-Chair of the 2004 Co-Chair of the 2003 SIAM Fourth International Conference on Data Mining (April 22-24) in Orlando, FL. He is a member of SIAM, ACM, MAA, and the IEEE Computer Society and is on the editorial board of "Computing in Science and Engineering" and "Statistical Analysis and Data Mining".
His research interests include information retrieval, data and text mining,
computational science, bioinformatics, and parallel computing. Prof. Berry's
research has been supported by grants and contracts from organizations such
as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
