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REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS 2000-1991

2000

Ford, N. J., Wilson, T. D., Ellis, D., Foster, A., & Spink, A. (2000). Individual differences in information seeking: An empirical study. ASIS 2000: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, November, Chicago, IL (pp. 14-24).

Greisdorf, H., & Spink, A. (2000). A new way to evaluate IR systems performance: Median measure. Proceedings of NOM 2000: The National Online Meeting, May, New York (pp. 137-144).

Greisdorf, H., & Spink, A. (2000). Recent relevance research: Implications for information professionals. ALISE 2000: Association of Library and Information Science Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas, January.

He, S., & Spink, A. (2000). Accessing Chinese information with English queries: A survey and evaluation. Multilingual Text Collections Workshop, University of Maryland, June.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., & Pfaff, A. (2000). Linguistic analysis of World Wide Web queries. ASIS 2000: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, November, Chicago, IL (pp. 169-176).

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Pfaff, A., & Goodrum, A. (2000). Web query structure: Implications for design. SCI 2000: Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics, July, Orlando, FL.

Spink, A., Lawrence, S., & Giles, C. L. (2000). Inquirus Web meta-search tool: A user evaluation. Proceedings of WebNet 2000, November 2000, San Antonio, TX.

Spink, A., Milchak, S., Sollenberger, M., & Hurson, A. R. (2000). Elicitation queries to the Excite Web search engine. CIKM 2000: 9th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Washington DC. November (pp. 134-140).

Xu, J., & Spink, A. (2000). Web research: The Excite study. WebNet 2000, November, San Antonio, TX.

1999

Goodrum, A., & Spink, A. (1999). Visual information seeking: A study of image queries on the World Wide Web. ASIS 1999: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington D.C., October (pp. 665-674).

Greisdorf, H., & Spink, A. (1999). Regions of relevance: Approaches to measurement for enhanced precision. Proceedings of the 21st British Computer Society IR Sub Group Annual Colloquium on IR Research, April 19-20, Uni. of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (pp. 1-33). Best Paper Award.

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1999). The use of relevance feedback on the World Wide Web. Proceedings of WebNet 99, October 24-30, Waikiki, Honolulu.

Reneker, M., Jacobson, A., Wargo, L., & Spink, A. (1999). Information environment of a military university campus: An exploratory study. ASIS 1999: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, Washington, DC, October (pp. 462-471).

Spink, A., & Cool, C. (1999). Developing digital libraries education: International perspectives on theory and practice. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conceptions of Library and Information Science Conference, May, Dubrovnik, Croatia (pp. 55-62).

Spink, A., & Greisdorf, H. (1999). How and why end-users make relevance judgments. Proceedings of the National Online Meeting, May. New York (pp. 239-250).

Spink, A., & Greisdorf, H. (1999). Toward a theoretical framework and model for informatics. Proceedings of SCI99: Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics Conference, Orlando – Florida, July.

Spink, A., Jansen, B. J., Goz, A., & Chang, C. (1999). Users’ interactions with the EXCITE Web search engine: A query reformulation and relevance feedback analysis. Proceedings of the1999 Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) Conference, Sherbrooke - Canada, June (pp. 342-354).

Spink, A., & Wilson, T. D. (1999). Toward a theoretical framework for information retrieval (IR) evaluation in an information seeking context. Proceedings of MIRA 99: Evaluation Frameworks for Multimedia IR Applications, Dept. Computing Science, University of Glasgow - Scotland, April 14-16 (pp.75-92) [http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/workshop/view.cfm/MIRA-99].

1998

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1998). Failure analysis in query construction: Data and analysis from a large sample of Web queries. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Digital Libraries Conference, June 23-26, Pittsburgh, P.A. (pp. 289-290)

Jansen, B. J., Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Saracevic, T. (1998). Searchers, the subjects they search, and sufficiency: A study of a large sample of EXCITE searches. Proceedings of WebNet 98, Orlando -Florida, November.

Spink, A. (1998). Toward a feedback model for informatics: Nature and manifestations of informational feedback. Proceedings of SCI98: Systematics, Cybernetics & Informatics 98: Orlando - Florida, July (pp. 75-82).

Spink, A. (1998). Toward a theoretical framework for information retrieval within an information seeking context. Invited Keynote Paper. Proceedings of the 2nd International Information Seeking in Context Conference, August 12-15, Uni. of Sheffield, Dept. of Information Studies, UK).

Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Greisdorf, H. (1998). The role of partial relevance judgments in electronic information access. ASIS 1998: Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, P.A. October (pp.1-12).

Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Greisdorf, H. (1998). Successive searching behavior during interactive information retrieval (IR): Development of a new line of research. CAIS 1998: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Ottawa, Canada – June 3-5 (pp. 401-415).

Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Jansen, B. J. (1998). Users searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. Proceedings of the 19th National Online Meeting, May - New York (pp. 375-386).

Spink, A., Bateman, J., & Jansen, B. J. (1998). Users’ searching behavior on the EXCITE Web search engine. Proceedings of WebNet’98, Orlando - Florida, November. Top Paper Award

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. (1998). Elicitations behavior during mediated information retrieval. 1998 Association for Library and Information Science Education, January 6-9, New Orleans.* Invited paper - ALISE 1998 Research Paper Honorable Mention.

Spink, A., Bray, K., Jaeckel, M., & Sidberry, G. (1998). Everyday life information seeking by low-income African American households: Wynnewood Healthy Neighborhood Project. Proceedings of the 2nd International Information Seeking in Context Conference, August 12-15, University of Sheffield, Department of Information Studies. Sheffield, UK.

1997

Prybutok, V., & Spink, A. (1997). Transforming a health care management information system. Proceedings of SHIMR 97: 3rd International Symposium on Health Information Management. Center for Health Information Management Research, June 18-19. Sheffield, England (pp. 1-10).

Saracevic, T., Spink, A., & Wu, M. M. (1997). Users and intermediaries in interactive information retrieval (IR): What are they talking about? Proceedings of UM 97: 6th International Conference on User Modeling. June, Sardinia, Italy (pp. 43-54).

Spink, A. (1997). Job market for foreign librarians: Toward virtual transborder library exchanges. Invited paper for Foro 97: 7th Transborder Library Forum: Building Information Bridges. February 20-22, Ciudad, Juarez, Mexico.

Spink, A., & Greisdorf, H. (1997). Partial relevance judgments and changes in users’ information problems during online searching. Proceedings of the 18th National Online Meeting, May; New York: Information Today, Inc (pp. 323-334).

Spink, A., & Greisdorf, H. (1997). Partial relevance judgments during interactive information retrieval: An exploratory study. ASIS 1997: Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, November, Washington, DC. (pp. 111-122).

Spink, A., Jaeckel, M., & Sidberry, G. (1997). Everyday life information seeking by low income African-American households: Wynnewood Healthy Neighborhood Project. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, November, Washington, DC. (pp. 271- 279).

1996

Barnes, D., Spink, A., & Yeatts, D. (1996). Effective information systems for high performing self-managed teams. Proceedings of ISIC 96: 1st International Information Seeking in Context, August 14-16, Tampere, Finland (pp. 163-178).

Spink, A. (1996). Feedback during information retrieval: A third feedback framework. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, October 13-16, Copenhagen, Denmark (pp. 269-280).

Spink, A. (1996). Information and a sustainable future. In: S. Ingman., X. Pei., C. D. Ekstrom., H. J. Friedsam & K. Bartlett (Eds.). An Aging Population, An Aging Planet and a Sustainable Future Conference (pp. 303-312). Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press.

Spink, A. (1996). Interactive information retrieval: A third feedback framework. ASIS 1996: Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, October 21-26, Baltimore, MD (pp. 10-15).

Spink, A., & Gardner, D. (1996). TEX-SHARE - A Texas network for library resource sharing: An evaluation study. Proceedings of the 11th Integrated Online Library Systems Conference, New York, May (pp. 91-102)

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., Robins, D., & Wu, M. M. (1996). Elicitations during information retrieval: Implications for design. Proceedings of the 19th International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August, Zurich, Switzerland (pp. 120-127)

Spink, A., & Hicks, J. (1996). The digital revolution and the cattle ranching community. Proceedings of the 1996 American Society for Information Science Mid Year Meeting May, San Diego - CA (pp. 64-82)

Spink, A., & Robins, D. (1996). Book reviews and electronic publishing. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Information Science, May, 1996, Toronto, Canada (pp. 92-100)

Spink, A., & Robins, D. (1996). Book reviews in electronic format for scholarly communication. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, October, Baltimore, MD (pp. 243-248)

1995

Spink, A. (1995). Digital libraries and sustainable development. Proceedings of the 2nd Digital Libraries Conference, Austin TX, June (pp.131-136)

Spink, A. (1995). Information and sustainable development. Proceedings of the 5thInternational Conference on Librarians and Development, Kansas City - Missouri. May.

Spink, A. (1995). Multiple search sessions by end-users. Proceedings of the 16th National Online Meeting, New York, May (pp. 369-378).

Spink, A., & Beatty, L. (1995). Multiple search sessions by end-users. ASIS 1995: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science. Chicago, October (pp. 77 83).

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. (1995). Elicitations during mediated online searching. ASIS 1995: Proceedings of the 58th Conference of the American Society for Information Science. Chicago, October (pp. 97-102)

Spink, A., Goodrum, A., & Robins, D. (1995). Search intermediary elicitations during mediated online searching. CAIS 1995: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, June, Alberta, Canada (pp. 164-174).

1994

Spink, A. (1994). Magnitude feedback during database searching. CAIS 1994: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Information Science May 25-27, Montreal, Canada (pp. 264-286).

Spink, A. (1994). Term relevance feedback and query expansion: Relation to design. Proceedings of the 17th International ACM- SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. July, Dublin, Ireland (pp. 81-90).

1993

Spink, A. (1993). Interaction with information retrieval systems: Reflections on feedback. ASIS 1993: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 30 October. Columbus, Ohio (pp. 115-121)

Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1993). Dynamics of search term selection process in mediated online searching. ASIS 1993: Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 30, October. Columbus, Ohio (pp. 63-72).

Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1993). How are the search terms selected in mediated online searching? Proceedings of the 14th National Online Meeting, 14, May. New York (pp. 387-397).

1992

Kuhlthau, C., Spink, A., & Cool, C. (1992). Exploration into stages in the information search process in online information retrieval: Communication between users and intermediaries. ASIS 1992: Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 29, October. Pittsburgh, P.A. (pp. 67-71)

Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1992). Sources and uses of search terminology in mediated online searching. ASIS 1992: Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 29, October, Pittsburgh, PA (pp. 249-255).

Spink, A., & Saracevic, T. (1992). Where do the search terms come from? Proceedings of the 13th National Online Meeting, May, New York (pp. 363-373).

1991

Saracevic, T., Mokros, H., Su, L., & Spink, A. (1991). Interaction between users and intermediaries in online searching. Proceedings of the 12th National Online Meeting, May. New York (pp. 329-341).

Spink, A. (1991). The Australian online industry: A brief history. Proceedings of the 12th International Online Meeting - December. London (pp. 163-171).

Spink, A. (1991). The Australian online industry: A brief history. Proceedings of the 12th National Online Meeting, May, New York (pp. 176-180).

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