scholarly journals From punched cards to Google: an outline history of information retrieval

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Alan Duncan Gilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Human Intervention ◽  
Cognitive Technology ◽  
Computing Power ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Information ◽  
Major Factors

This paper reviews the history of information re-trieval (IR) from punched cards and the first pro-grammable computer (the ENIAC of 1945) to the present day Web searcher Google and Microsoft’s “cognitive technology” Watson. The review is based on three major factors in the development of IR; (1) the enormous increase in computing power over the last 72 years, (2) the “competition” between statis-tical analysis of text and Natural Language Pro-cessing (NLP) in which the two have finally to a large extent converged, and (3) the corresponding changes in human intervention in the IR process.

scholarly journals The History of Information Retrieval Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 100 (Special Centennial Issue) ◽  
pp. 1444-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sanderson ◽  
W. B. Croft
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Information

Report on the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries at SIGIR 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran ◽  
Philipp Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Shared Task ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Joint Workshop

The 4 th joint BIRNDL workshop was held at the 42nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2019) in Paris, France. BIRNDL 2019 intended to stimulate IR researchers and digital library professionals to elaborate on new approaches in natural language processing, information retrieval, scientometrics, and recommendation techniques that can advance the state-of-the-art in scholarly document understanding, analysis, and retrieval at scale. The workshop incorporated different paper sessions and the 5 th edition of the CL-SciSumm Shared Task.

scholarly journals Evaluation – The Cinderella Science of ICT in Health

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 114-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Rigby
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Evaluation Practice ◽  
European Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Service Quality ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Collaborative Activities ◽  
To Receive

SummaryInformation systems are expensive to create, and consume resources in their operation. They are justified in order to achieve clearly defined objectives in health service quality and efficiency. To ensure that these objectives are being met, and in order to build up an evidence-base to support well focused policies, systems, and practice, evaluation would seem to be fully justified and indeed essential. However, there are major factors jeopardising good evaluation practice, ranging from reluctance to commit resources or expose decisions to scrutiny, through to lack of appreciation of the full range of dimensions which should be studied. This paper seeks to create fuller appreciation of the issues and their importance.Experiential and literature reviews form the basis of an exposition of principles, methods, and key current activities.A summary has been produced of the key challenges to health ICT evaluation, and its adverse comparison with other sectors. An explanation of the viewpoints and levels of health information evaluation is followed by a short history of principal milestones, current scientific methodology activity, and key collaborative activities.The need for a stronger commitment to health ICT evaluation is demonstrated if the application of health informatics systems is to receive due recognition as scientifically and empirically justified. Commitment of resources and scientific endeavour are needed, and thus the recent Declaration of Innsbruck, arising out of an event sponsored by the European Science Foundation, is timely and fully justified.

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