International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM2002)

Keynote Address

Improving Access to Scientific Literature

Steve Lawrence

NEC Research Institute

lawrence@necmail.com

CiteSeer (also known as ResearchIndex) is a digital library of scientific literature that aims to improve communication and progress in science. CiteSeer features include automatic metadata extraction, autonomous citation indexing, graph analysis, citation context extraction, and related document computation. This talk covers the design, implementation, and operation of CiteSeer.

Speaker Biography:

Steve Lawrence is a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ. His research interests include information retrieval and machine learning. Dr. Lawrence has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in Science, Nature, CACM, and IEEE Computer. He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and NPR. Hundreds of articles about his research have appeared worldwide in over 10 different languages.