| 1999 | "Drag-and-Drop" Technique for MEDLINE Searching (demonstration abstract). Xia Lin |
| 1999 | "User Revealment" - a Comparison of Initial Queries and Ensuing Question Development in Online Searching and in Human Reference Interactions. Ragnar Nordlie |
| 1999 | 30, 000 Hits may be Better than 300: Precision Anomalies in Internet Searches (poster abstract). Caroline M. Eastman |
| 1999 | A Comparison of Query Translation Methods for English-Japanese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (poster abstract). Gareth J. F. Jones, Tetsuya Sakai, Nigel Collier, Akira Kumano, Kazuo Sumita |
| 1999 | A Demonstration of WHIRL (demonstration abstract). William W. Cohen |
| 1999 | A General Language Model for Information Retrieval (poster abstract). Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | A Hidden Markov Model Information Retrieval System. David R. H. Miller, Tim Leek, Richard M. Schwartz |
| 1999 | A Knowledge Management Tool for Speech Interfaces (poster abstract). Niels Bouwmeester |
| 1999 | A New Approach for Image Classification and Retrieval (poster abstract). Cheong Yiu Fung, Kia-Fock Loe |
| 1999 | A New Statistical Formula for Chinese Text Segmentation Incorporating Contextual Information. Yubin Dai, Teck Ee Loh, Christopher S. G. Khoo |
| 1999 | A Probabilitstic Solution to the Selection and Fusion Problem in Distributed Information Retrieval. Christoph Baumgarten |
| 1999 | A Re-Examination of Text Categorization Methods. Yiming Yang, Xin Liu |
| 1999 | A Similarity-based Probability Model for Latent Semantic Indexing. Chris H. Q. Ding |
| 1999 | ATTICS: A Software Platform for Online Text Classification (poster abstract). David D. Lewis, Daniel L. Stern, Amit Singhal |
| 1999 | Adaptive Cluster-Based Browsing Using Incrementally Expanded Queries and its Effects (poster abstract). Koji Eguchi |
| 1999 | Advanced Search Technologies for Unfamiliar Metadata (demonstration abstract). Barbara A. Norgard, Youngin Kim, Michael K. Buckland, Aitao Chen, Ray R. Larson, Fred Gaey |
| 1999 | An Algorithmic Framework for Performing Collaborative Filtering. Jonathan L. Herlocker, Joseph A. Konstan, Al Borchers, John Riedl |
| 1999 | An Intelligent Adaptive Filtering Agent Based on an On-Line Learning Model (poster abstract). Wai Lam, Kwok Leung Yu |
| 1999 | An Internet-Based Newspaper Filtering and Personalization System (demonstration abstract). Aleksander Kolcz, Joshua Alspector |
| 1999 | Ant World (demonstration abstract). Paul B. Kantor, Endre Boros, Benjamin Melamed, David J. Neu, Vladimir Menkov, Qin Shi, Myung Ho Kim |
| 1999 | Applying User Research Directly to Information System Design (panel session). Marcia J. Bates, Raya Fidel, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, Annelise Mark Pejtersen |
| 1999 | CHROMA: A Content-based Image Retrieval System (demonstration abstract). Ting-Sheng Lai, John Tait |
| 1999 | Cluster-Based Language Models for Distributed Retrieval. Jinxi Xu, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | Combining Multiple Evidence from Different Types of Thesaurus for Query Expansion. Rila Mandala, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka |
| 1999 | Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms. James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Callan, Charles L. Viles, Travis Emmitt, Kevin J. Prey, Yun Mou |
| 1999 | Content-Based Retrieval Using Heuristic Search. Dimitris Papadias, Marios Mantzourogiannis, Panos Kalnis, Nikos Mamoulis, Ishfaq Ahmad |
| 1999 | Content-Based Retrieval for Music Collections. Yuen-Hsien Tseng |
| 1999 | Context-Sensitive Vocabulary Mapping with a Spreading Activation Network. Jonghoon Lee, David Dubin |
| 1999 | Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts and Automatic Mining of Parallel Texts from the Web. Jian-Yun Nie, Michel Simard, Pierre Isabelle, Richard Durand |
| 1999 | Crystal: A Content-Based Music Retrieval System (demonstration abstract). Yuen-Hsien Tseng |
| 1999 | CueVideo: Automated Video/Audio Indexing and Browsing (demonstration abstract). Arnon Amir, Savitha Srinivasan, Dulce B. Ponceleon, Dragutin Petkovic |
| 1999 | Deriving Concept Hierarchies from Text. Mark Sanderson, W. Bruce Croft |
| 1999 | Discovering Chinese Words from Unsegmented Text (poster abstract). Xianping Ge, Wanda Pratt, Padhraic Smyth |
| 1999 | Document Expansion for Speech Retrieval. Amit Singhal, Fernando C. N. Pereira |
| 1999 | Effective Document Presentation with a Locality-Based Similarity Heuristic. Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat |
| 1999 | Efficient Distributed Algorithms to Build Inverted Files. Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Edleno Silva de Moura, Marden S. Neubert, Nivio Ziviani |
| 1999 | Estimating Precision by Random Sampling (poster abstract). Gordon V. Cormack, Ondrej Lhoták, Christopher R. Palmer |
| 1999 | Evaluating a Visualisation of Image Similarity (poster abstract). Kerry Rodden, Wojciech Basalaj, David Sinclair, Kenneth R. Wood |
| 1999 | Extraction/Gathering with Taylor System (demonstration abstract). François Paradis, Jon Dell'Oro, Ross Wilkinson |
| 1999 | From Reading to Retrieval: Freeform Ink Annotations as Queries. Gene Golovchinsky, Morgan N. Price, Bill N. Schilit |
| 1999 | Fundamental Properties of Aboutness (poster abstract). Peter Bruza, Dawei Song, Kam-Fai Wong |
| 1999 | Hierarchical Neural Networks for Text Categorization (poster abstract). Miguel E. Ruiz, Padmini Srinivasan |
| 1999 | Improving Retrieval on Imperfect Speech Transcriptions (poster abstract). Pierre Jourlin, Sue E. Johnson, Karen Sparck Jones, Philip C. Woodland |
| 1999 | Information Access Across the Language Barrier: The MuST System (demonstration abstract). Chin-Yew Lin |
| 1999 | Information Retrieval Based on Context Distance and Morphology. Hongyan Jing, Evelyne Tzoukermann |
| 1999 | Information Retrieval Library (IRLIB) (demonstration abstract). Carolyn Schmidt, Donna Harman |
| 1999 | Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation. Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty |
| 1999 | Information Seeking at Different Stages of the RD Research Process (poster abstract). Sandra G. Hirsh |
| 1999 | Interactive Internet Search through Automatic Clustering (poster abstract): an empirical study. Dmitri Roussinov, Kristin M. Tolle, Marshall Ramsey, Hsinchun Chen |
| 1999 | Jester 2.0: Collaborative Filtering to Retrieve Jokes (demonstration abstract). Dhruv Gupta, Mark Digiovanni, Hiro Narita, Kenneth Y. Goldberg |
| 1999 | Jester 2.0: Evaluation of an New Linear Time Collaborative Filtering Algorithm (poster abstract). Dhruv Gupta, Mark Digiovanni, Hiro Narita, Kenneth Y. Goldberg |
| 1999 | Machine Translation and Monolingual Information Retrieval (poster abstract). Martin Franz, J. Scott McCarley |
| 1999 | Music Retrieval as Text Retrieval: Simple Yet Effective (poster abstract). J. Stephen Downie |
| 1999 | NACSIS Test Collection Workshop (NTCIR-1) (poster abstract). Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama, Toshihiko Nozue |
| 1999 | Partial Replica Selection Based on Relevance for Information Retrieval. Zhihong Lu, Kathryn S. McKinley |
| 1999 | Phrase Recognition and Expansion for Short, Precision-Biased Queries Based on a Query Log. Erika F. de Lima, Jan O. Pedersen |
| 1999 | Phrasier: A System for Interactive Document Retrieval Using Keyphrases. Steve Jones, Mark S. Staveley |
| 1999 | Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing. Thomas Hofmann |
| 1999 | Query Expansion Method Based on Word Contribution (poster abstract). Keiichiro Hoashi, Kazunori Matsumoto, Naomi Inoue, Kazuo Hashimoto |
| 1999 | Relevance Feedback Retrieval of Time Series Data. Eamonn J. Keogh, Michael J. Pazzani |
| 1999 | SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives. Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Donald Hindle, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Amit Singhal |
| 1999 | SIGIR '99: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, August 15-19, 1999, Berkeley, CA, USA Fredric C. Gey, Marti A. Hearst, Richard M. Tong |
| 1999 | Searching Program Source Code with a Structured Text Retrieval System (poster abstract). Charles Clarke, Anthony Cox, Susan Elliott Sim |
| 1999 | Searching on the Web: Two Types of Expertise (poster abstract). Christoph Hölscher, Gerhard Strube |
| 1999 | Statistical Phrases for Vector-Space Information Retrieval (poster abstract). Andrew Turpin, Alistair Moffat |
| 1999 | Summarizing Text Documents: Sentence Selection and Evaluation Metrics. Jade Goldstein, Mark Kantrowitz, Vibhu O. Mittal, Jaime G. Carbonell |
| 1999 | Supporting Content Retrieval from WWW via "Basic Level Categories" (poster abstract). Eduard Hoenkamp, Onno Stegeman, Lambert Schomaker |
| 1999 | Text and Image Retrieval in Cheshire II (demonstration abstract). Ray R. Larson |
| 1999 | The Automatic Construction of Large-Scale Corpora for Summarization Research. Daniel Marcu |
| 1999 | The Decomposition of Human-Written Summary Sentences. Hongyan Jing, Kathleen R. McKeown |
| 1999 | The Economics of Search. Hal R. Varian |
| 1999 | The MultiText Retrieval System (demonstration abstract). Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Christopher R. Palmer, Robert C. Good |
| 1999 | The Paraphrase Search Assistant: Terminological Feedback for Iterative Information Seeking. Peter G. Anick, Suresh Tipirneni |
| 1999 | Ultra-Summarization: A Statistical Approach to Generating Highly Condensed Non-Extractive Summaries (poster abstract). Michael J. Witbrock, Vibhu O. Mittal |
| 1999 | Using a Belief Revision Operator for Document Ranking in Extended Boolean Models. David E. Losada, Alvaro Barreiro |
| 1999 | Visual MeSH. Xia Lin |
| 1999 | Visualization of Search Results: A Comparative Evaluation of Text, 2D, and 3D Interfaces. Marc M. Sebrechts, John Cugini, Sharon J. Laskowski, Joanna Vasilakis, Michael S. Miller |
| 1999 | Visualizing Internet Search Results with Adaptive Self-Organizing Maps (demonstration abstract). Dmitri Roussinov, Kristin M. Tolle, Marshall Ramsey, Michael J. McQuaid, Hsinchun Chen |
| 1999 | Web Searching Behavior of Aerospace Engineers (poster abstract). Raya Fidel, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis |
| 1999 | WebCluster, a Tool for Mediated Information Access (demonstration abstract). Gheorghe Muresan, David J. Harper, Mourad Mechkour |