| 1997 | A Method for Monolingual Thesauri Merging. Marios Sintichakis, Panos Constantopoulos |
| 1997 | A Probabilistic Model for Distributed Information Retrieval. Christoph Baumgarten |
| 1997 | ACHIRA: Automatic Construction of Hypertexts for Information Retrieval Applications (Abstract). Maristella Agosti, Lucio Benfante, Massimo Melucci |
| 1997 | Almost-Constant-Time Clustering of Arbitrary Corpus Subsets. Craig Silverstein, Jan O. Pedersen |
| 1997 | Analyses of Multiple Evidence Combination. Jong-Hak Lee |
| 1997 | Automatic Feedback Using Past Queries: Social Searching? Larry Fitzpatrick, Mei Dent |
| 1997 | Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy. Marti A. Hearst, Chandu Karadi |
| 1997 | Chinese Text Retrieval Without Using a Dictionary. Aitao Chen, Jianzhang He, Liangjie Xu, Fredric C. Gey, Jason Meggs |
| 1997 | Comparing Representations in Chinese Information Retrieval. K. L. Kwok |
| 1997 | Computationally Tractable Probabilistic Modeling of Boolean Operators. Warren R. Greiff, W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle |
| 1997 | Cross Language Speech Retrieval: Establishing a Baseline Performance. Paraic Sheridan, Martin Wechsler, Peter Schäuble |
| 1997 | Dempster-Shafer's Theory of Evidence Applied to Structured Documents: Modelling Uncertainty. Mounia Lalmas |
| 1997 | Effective Use of Natural Language Processing Techniques for Automatic Conflation of Multi-Word Terms: The Role of Derivational Morphology, Part of Speech Tagging, and Shallow Parsing. Evelyne Tzoukermann, Judith Klavans, Christian Jacquemin |
| 1997 | Effectiveness of a Graphical Display of Retrieval Results. Aravindan Veerasamy, Russell Heikes |
| 1997 | Exploiting Clustering and Phrases for Context-based Information Retrieval. Peter G. Anick, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan |
| 1997 | Exploration of Text Collections with Hierarchical Feature Maps. Dieter Merkl |
| 1997 | Fast and Effective Query Refinement. Bienvenido Vélez, Ron Weiss, Mark A. Sheldon, David K. Gifford |
| 1997 | Feature Selection, Perceptron Learning, and a Usability Case Study for Text Categorization. Hwee Tou Ng, Wei Boon Goh, Kok Leong Low |
| 1997 | Guessing Morphology from Terms and Corpora. Christian Jacquemin |
| 1997 | How to Read Less and Know More - Approximate OCR for Thai. Doug Cooper |
| 1997 | Image Retrieval by Appearance. Srinivas Ravela, R. Manmatha |
| 1997 | Image Retrieval by Hypertext Links. V. Harmandas, Mark Sanderson, Mark D. Dunlop |
| 1997 | Learning Routing Queries in a Query Zone. Amit Singhal, Mandar Mitra, Chris Buckley |
| 1997 | On Relevance Weights with Little Relevance Information. Stephen E. Robertson, Steve Walker |
| 1997 | Optimal Demand-oriented Topology for Hypertext Systems. Scott Aaronson |
| 1997 | Overlapping Statistical Word Indexing: A New Indexing Method for Japanese Text. Yashishi Ogawa, Toru Matsuda |
| 1997 | PAT-tree-based Keyword Extraction for Chinese Information Retrieval. Lee-Feng Chien |
| 1997 | Passage Retrieval Revisited. Marcin Kaszkiel, Justin Zobel |
| 1997 | Phrasal Translation and Query Expansion Techniques for Cross-language Information Retrieval. Lisa Ballesteros, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1997 | Projections for Efficient Document Clustering. Hinrich Schütze, Craig Silverstein |
| 1997 | QUILT: Implementing a Large-scale Cross-language Text Retrieval System. Mark W. Davis, William C. Ogden |
| 1997 | Real Life Information Retrieval: Commercial Search Engines (Panel). Michael Lesk, Douglas R. Cutting, Jan O. Pedersen, Terry Noreault, Matthew B. Koll |
| 1997 | SIGIR '97: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 27-31, 1997, Philadelphia, PA, USA Nicholas J. Belkin, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Peter Willett, William R. Hersh, Fazli Can, Ellen M. Voorhees |
| 1997 | Semantic Search and Semantic Categorization (Abstract). Hsinchun Chen, Andrea Houston, Robin R. Sewell, Bruce R. Schatz |
| 1997 | Textual Context Analysis for Information Retrieval. Mark A. Stairmand |
| 1997 | The Potential and Actual Effectiveness of Interactive Query Expansion. Mark Magennis, C. J. van Rijsbergen |
| 1997 | Time, Relevance and Interaction Modelling for Information Retrieval. Mark D. Dunlop |
| 1997 | Users Lost: Reflections on the Past, Future, and Limits of Information Science (Summary). Tefko Saracevic |
| 1997 | Users' Perception of the Performance of a Filtering System. Raya Fidel, Michael D. Crandall |
| 1997 | Using Semantic Contents and WordNet in Image Retrieval. Y. Alp Aslandogan, Chuck Thier, Clement T. Yu, Jon Zou, Naphtali Rishe |
| 1997 | Visual SOM (Abstract). Hsinchun Chen, Marshall Ramsey, Terence R. Smith |