The Influence of Caption Features on Clickthrough Patterns in Web Search
- By Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Eugene Agichtein, Emory University, and Susan Dumais and Ryen W. White, Microsoft. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, July 2007. The results of the study suggest that rel
- http://research.microsoft.com/~ryenw/papers/ClarkeSIGIR2007.pdf

Lycos Retriever: An Information Fusion Engine
- By Brian Ulicny. In: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL. June 2006. The Lycos Retriever automatically generates coherent topical summaries of popular web query topics. The ODP hierarchy is used for topic categorization an
- http://vistology.com/papers/retriever-final.pdf

Web Content Categorization Using Link Information
- By Zoltan Gyongyi and Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University, and Jan Pedersen, Yahoo. Technical Report, June 2006. Introduces a link-based approach to classification, which can be used in isolation or in conjunction with text-based classification. The
- http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/showDoc.Fulltext?lang=en&doc=2006-17&format=pdf&compression=&name=2006-17.pdf

Topic Sensitive PageRank
- T. Haveliwala proposes bringing topical information into PageRank calculation, using pages listed in the ODP. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, May 2002.
- http://www2002.org/presentations/haveliwala-rp17.pdf

Summarizing Web Sites Automatically
- By Y. Zhang, N. Zincir-Heywood and E. Milios, Dalhousie University, Canada. In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, 2003. Machine learning and natural language processing techniques ar
- http://flame.cs.dal.ca/~yongzhen/publication/paper/ai03.pdf

The ICS-FORTH RDFSuite: Managing Voluminous RDF Description Bases
- By Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Karvounarakis, Dimitris Plexousakis and Karsten Tolle. 2001. The ODP RDF dump was used as a testbed for a suite of tools for RDF validation, storage and querying.
- http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/publications/semweb2001.html

Mapping Ontologies into Cyc
- By Stephen L. Reed and Douglas B. Lenat, Cycorp Inc., Austin, USA, 2002. The authors present the process by which several ontologies have been mapped or integrated with Cyc, a large commonsense knowledge base, over 15 years. ODP was among the chosen ontol
- http://www.cyc.com/doc/white_papers/mapping-ontologies-into-cyc_v31.pdf

OCELOT: A System for Summarizing Web Pages
- By Adam L. Berger, Carnegie Mellon University, and Vibhu O. Mittal, Just Research, Pittsburgh, USA. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2000. Probabilistic models are used to select and order words into a gist. The pape
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=345565&dl=ACM&coll=portal

Web-Page Summarization Using Clickthrough Data
- By Jian-Tao Sun, Dou Shen, HuaJun Zeng, Qiang Yang, Yuchang Lu and Zheng Chen. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, August 2005. The authors propose two adapted summarization methods that take advantage of the relationshi
- http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1462

Improving Web Search Results Using Affinity Graph
- By Benyu Zhang, Hua Li, Yi Liu, Lei Ji, Wensi Xi, Weiguo Fan, Zheng Chen and Wei-Ying Ma. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, August 2005. The authors propose a ranking scheme named Affinity Ranking (AR). Yahoo, ODP and
- http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=Publication&id=1454

OCFS: Optimal Orthogonal Centroid Feature Selection for Text Categorization
- By Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Benyu Zhang, Shuicheng Yan, Zheng Chen, Qiansheng Cheng, Weiguo Fan and Wei-Ying Ma. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, August 2005. Experiments based on 20 Newsgroups (20NG), Reuters Corpus Volume
- http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=1460

THESUS: Organizing Web Document Collections Based on Link Semantics
- By Maria Halkidi, Benjamin Nguyen, Iraklis Varlamis and Michalis Vazirgiannis. In: The VLDB Journal - The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, 2003. Currently Web documents are classified based on their content not taking into account the fact
- http://www.db-net.aueb.gr/index.php/corporate/content/download/159/416/file/HNVV03_VLDBJ.pdf

Accelerated Focused Crawling through Online Relevance Feedback
- By Soumen Chakrabarti, Kunal Punera, IIT Bombay, India, and Mallela Subramanyam, University of Texas, Austin, USA. In: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web, 2002. The ODP taxonomy is used for the experiments.
- http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/soumen/doc/www2002m/p336-chakrabarti.pdf

A General Evaluation Framework for Topical Crawlers
- By P. Srinivasan, F. Menczer and G. Pant. In: Information Retrieval, 2005. The ODP hierarchy is used as source for topics.
- http://dollar.biz.uiowa.edu/~pant/Papers/crawl_framework.pdf

Index Construction for Linear Categorisation
- By Vaughan R. Shanks and Hugh E. Williams, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management, 2003. A problem with iterative training techniques for automatic text categoris
- http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/research/download.php?manuscript=142

Enhanced Word Clustering for Hierarchical Text Classification
- By Inderjit S. Dhillon, Subramanyam Mallela and Rahul Kumar, University of Texas, Austin, USA. Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 2002. The authors propose a new information-theoretic div
- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/inderjit/public_papers/hierdist.pdf

Downloading Textual Hidden Web Content through Keyword Queries
- By Alexandros Ntoulas, Petros Zerfos and Junghoo Cho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. In: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2005. The authors investigate how to build an effective Hidden Web crawler tha
- http://oak.cs.ucla.edu/~ntoulas/pubs/ntoulas_hidden_web.pdf

The Structure of Broad Topics on the Web
- By Soumen Chakrabarti, Mukul M. Joshi, Kunal Punera and David M. Pennock, IIT Bombay and NEC Research Institute. In: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web, 2002. Many studies on the Web graph concentrate on the graph structur
- http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/338/

Involving Psychometric Tests for Input Device Evaluation with Older People
- By Murni Mahmud, Hastuti Kurniawan. University of Manchester, UK. In: Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction. Browsing ODP´s Aging and Seniors catego
- http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/S.Kurniawan/files/2005_ozchi.pdf

Using ODP Metadata to Personalize Search
- By Paul Alexandru Chirita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Raluca Paiu and Christian Kohlschütter, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, August 2005. The paper discusses how ODP metadata can be e
- http://www.l3s.de/~chirita/publications/chirita05using.pdf