Publications: Edie M. Rasmussen

Books and Edited Works:

A. Goodrum and E. Rasmussen, eds. (2000). Sound and Speech in Information Retrieval. Special Section of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 26(5): 16-28.

R.B. Allen and E. Rasmussen, eds. (1997). ACM Digital Libraries '97: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Philadelphia, PA, July 23-26, 1997. New York: ACM.

R. Fidel, T. B. Hahn, E.M. Rasmussen, and P.J. Smith, eds. (1994). Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images. Learned Information: Medford, NJ.

R. Korfhage, E. Rasmussen and P. Willett, eds. (1994). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. New York: ACM.

E.M. Rasmussen, ed. (1991). "Special Issue: Parallel Processing and Information Retrieval". Information Processing & Management 27(4).

P. Willett and E.M. Rasmussen (1990). Parallel Database Processing: Text Retrieval and Cluster Analysis using the DAP. London: Pitman. (Research Monographs in Parallel and Distributed Computing).

Chapters and Journal Articles (Refereed)

E. Rasmussen (2002). "Indexing and retrieval on the WWW". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. (In press).

Y. Choi and E. Rasmussen (2001) "Users' relevance criteria in image retrieval in American history". Information Processing & Management (in press).

J. Zhang and E. Rasmussen (2001). "An experimental study on the iso-content-based angle similarity measure". Information Processing & Management (in press). J. Zhang and E. Rasmussen (2001). "Developing a new similarity measure from two different perspectives". Information Processing & Management 37(2); 279-294.

A. Goodrum and E. Rasmussen (2000). "Sounds and speech in information retrieval: an introduction". Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science 26(5): 16-17.

J. Greenberg, K. Fullerton, and E. Rasmussen (2000). "Metadata for a digital library of educational resources". Journal of Internet Cataloging 3(2/3): 127-144.

Hsin-liang Chen and E.M . Rasmussen (1999). "Intellectual access to images". Library Trends 48(2): 291-302.

K. Fullerton, J. Greenberg, M. McClure, E. Rasmussen and D. Stewart (1999). "A digital library for education: the PEN-DOR project". The Electronic Library 17(2): 1-8 (April, 1999).

E.M. Rasmussen (1999). "Libraries and Bibliographic Systems". Chapter in: Modern Information Retrieval (R. Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, eds.). Addison Wesley. Pp. 397-413.

E. M. Rasmussen (1997). "Indexing images". In: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 32: 169-196.

R.J. Cox and E. Rasmussen (1997). "Reinventing the information professions and the argument for specialization in LIS education: Case studies in archives and information technology". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 38(4): 255-267.

E.M. Rasmussen (1996). "Research in library and information science". International Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. London: Routledge. 402-404.

M. Hancock-Beaulieu, S. Robertson, and E. Rasmussen (1996). "Evaluating interactive systems in TREC". Journal of the American Society for Information Science 47(1): 85-94.

S. McLean, M.B. Spring, E. Rasmussen and J.G. Williams (1995). "Online image databases: usability and performance". The Electronic Library 13(1): 27-42.

E.M. Rasmussen (1995). "Text indexing software: CINDEX and INDEXICON". TEXT Technology 5(4): 308-318.

E.M. Rasmussen (1994). Indexing and retrieval from full-text. In: Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images (T. Bellardo, R. Fidel, E. Rasmussen and P. Smith, eds.). Medford, NJ: Learned Information. pp. 241-245.

E.M. Rasmussen (1992). "Parallel information processing". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) 27: 99-130.

E.M Rasmussen (1991). "Clustering algorithms". Chapter in: Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms (W.B. Frakes and R. Baeza-Yates, eds.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. pp. 419-442.

E.M. Rasmussen (1991). "Parallel processing and information retrieval". Information Processing & Management 27(4): 255-263.

E.M. Rasmussen, P. Willett, T.Wilson, G.A. Manson and G.A. Wilson (1990). "Searching of chemical structure databases with parallel computer hardware". Analytica Chimica Acta, 235: 77-86.

M.F. Lynch, E.M. Rasmussen, P. Willett, G.A. Manson and G.A. Wilson (1989). "Chemical database processing using parallel computer hardware". Biochemical Society Transactions 17: 856-858.

E.M. Rasmussen and P.Willett (1989). "Efficiency of hierarchic agglomerative clustering using the ICL Distributed Array Processor". Journal of Documentation 45(1): 1-24.

C.A. Pogue, E.M. Rasmussen, and P. Willett (1988). "Searching and clustering of databases using the ICL Distributed Array Processor". Parallel Computing 8: 399-407.

E.M. Rasmussen, G.M. Downs, and P. Willett (1988). "Automatic classification of chemical structure databases using a highly parallel array processor". Journal of Computational Chemistry 9(4): 378-386 (1988).

E.M. Tingle and F.P. Olsen (1969). "Sulfurimide anions. III. Alkylation of the isomeric hexasulfurdiimides". Inorganic Chemistry 8: 1741-1745 (1969).

B.A. Olsen, F.P. Olsen and E.M. Tingle (1968). "Alkylation of sulphur imides". Chemical Communications, 554-555.

Journal Articles (Unrefereed)

A. Smeaton and E. Rasmussen (1996). "The EuroIEMaster's Degree in Information Engineering". SIGIR Forum 30(2): 11-13 (Fall, 1996).

E. Rasmussen (1993). Reading your way around the Internet. Text Technology 3(2): 16-17.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

M. Bright, K. Fullerton, E. Rasmussen and D.L. Stewart (1997). "The Pennsylvania Education Net Digital Object Repository (PEN-DOR): an object based, distributed digital library in support of curriculum development". ISDL '97: Proceedings of International Symposium on Research, Development and Practice in Digital Libraries 1997. November 18-21, 1997, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Tsukuba, Japan: University of Library and Information Science. Pp. 176-180.

E.M. Rasmussen and S.A. McLean (1995). "Image query and retrieval: a case study". In: Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries, August 22-25, 1995, Tskuba, Ibaraki, Japan. Tskuba, Japan: University of Library and Information Science. pp. 5-9.

E. Rasmussen and A. Griffiths (1995). "The future of multimedia in research". In: Proceedings of the Multimedia Workshop for the Information Professional, Singapore, March 29-30, 1995. Singapore: Library Association of Singapore and Persatuan Perpustakaan Malaysia. pp. 68-74.

S. Koshman and E.M. Rasmussen (1994). IR research and innovation in commercial online systems: an exploratory survey. In: A. Tabah (ed.), The Information Industry in Transition, Canadian Association for Information Science '94, 22nd Annual Conference Proceedings Montreal, Quebec, May 26-27, 1994. pp. 127-148.

S. McLean, E.M. Rasmussen and J.G. Williams (1994). "Promenade: networked query and retrieval of horticultural images". 18th International Online Information Meeting Proceedings. Oxford: Learned Information. 457-468.

E.M. Rasmussen (1993). Parallel processing for text retrieval. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing. Madison, SD: Dakota State University. 161-171.

E.M. Rasmussen, P. Willett and T. Wilson (1993). Chemical structure handling using the Distributed Array Processor. Chemical Structures 2. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 327-341.

J.-J. Yang, R.R. Korfhage, and E. Rasmussen (1993). Query improvements in information retrieval using genetic algorithms--a report on the experiments of the TREC Project. The First Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-1). Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology. 31-58

L.L. Hill and E.M. Rasmussen (1991). "Geographic indexing terms as spatial indicators". Proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting, American Society for Information Science, Santa Clara, CA, April 26-29, 1991. Medford, NJ: Learned Information. 9-20.

E. Rasmussen (1990). "Current research in information science and its impact upon librarianship". In: Organizing a Research Agenda: Information Studies for the 1990s. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, March 16-17, 1989. Halifax: Dalhousie University. (Occasional Paper 48)

E.M. Rasmussen and P. Willett (1990). "Database processing using a highly parallel array processor". Prospects for Intelligent Retrieval: Informatics 10. Proceedings of a conference jointly sponsored by Aslib, the Aslib Informatics Group, and the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society. University of York, England, 21-23 March 1989. London: Aslib. pp. 185-203.

H.M. Grindley, M.F. Lynch, G.A. Manson, E.M. Rasmussen, P. Willett, G.A. Wilson and T. Wilson (1989). "Processing of chemical structure databases using parallel computer hardware". Proceedings of the Montreux 1989 International Chemical Information Conference (Calne: Infonortics). pp 253-269.

E. Rasmussen and P. Willett (1987). "Non-hierarchic document clustering using the ICL Distributed Array Processor". Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. (Washington: ACM) 132-139.

Reports

E. Rasmussen (1999). From Testbed to Virtual Community: Deploying the Pennsylvania Education Network Digital Object Repository System (PEN-DOR ). Final Report on Link-2-Learn Project.

R.R. Korfhage, E.M. Rasmussen, N. Belkin and D. Harman (1998). Invitational Workshop on Information Retrieval Tools. Final Report submitted to NSF, Grant No. IRI-9610070.

E. Rasmussen and M.L. Zeng (1992). An Evaluation of the Quality of Chinese Records in the OCLC Database and a Study of a Rule-based Validation System. Final Report submitted to OCLC.

E. Rasmussen and M.L. Zeng (1992). The quality of Chinese records in the OCLC database: a proposal for rule-based validation. Annual Review of OCLC Research, July 1991-June 1992. pp. 58-60.

E.M. Rasmussen (1992). Final Report on An Evaluation of Free-Text and Controlled Vocabulary Searching for the Research in Progress Database. Report submitted to the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy.

E.M. Rasmussen (1991). Final Report on Quality Issues for the Energy Science and Technology Database. Report submitted to the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy.

E.M. Rasmussen and P.Willett (1988). Cluster Analysis Using Parallel Computer Architecture. Final report for the period April 1986 to March 1988 to the British Library Research and Development Department on Project SI/G/760. Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, May, 1988.

Proposal for automation of the SSRU Documentation Centre (1983). Unpublished report, Social Science Research Unit, University of Swaziland, 1983.

Theses

E. Rasmussen (1988). Cluster Analysis on a Highly Parallel Array Processor. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield.

E. Rasmussen (1968). Properties and Derivatives of Cyclic Sulphur Imides. M.Sc. thesis, McMaster University.

Other Forms of Publication

E. Rasmussen (2001). "Digital Libraries". In: Computer Sciences for Students (R. Flynn, ed.). Submitted for publication. {Encyclopedia article}

E. Rasmussen (1999). Index to Tradition in Transition [a history of the School of Information Sciences], Scarecrow, 2001.

E. Rasmussen (2001). "Parallel Processing". In: Computer Sciences for Students (R. Flynn, ed.). Submitted for publication. {Encyclopedia article}

E. Rasmussen (2000). "Information Retrieval". In: Computer Sciences for Students (R. Flynn, ed.). Submitted for publication. {Encyclopedia article}

E. Rasmussen (1999). Index to Trinity & Pittsburgh: The History of Trinity Cathedral by Helen H. Harriss. Pittsburgh: Trinity Cathedral.

E.M. Rasmussen (1997). Index to A History of Montefiore Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1989-1990. Pittsburgh, PA: Bleier, Donnelly and Granowitz.

E.M. Rasmussen (1992). Index to The Ketchum Spirit: A History of Ketchum Communications Inc., by Lu Donnelly and C. Pittsburgh, PA: Ketchum Communications.