CiteSeer

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CiteSeer

• Chantel Bowie
• Intro 2 Research
• Spring 2K7

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CiteSeer

• Computer Information Science Papers
• Scientific literature digital library that aims
  to improve dissemination and feedback of
  scientific literature
• Database of statistics, meta-data about a
  specific topic/person

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CiteSeer

• Penn State
• Information Sciences Technology Department
• CiteSeer
• Other Mirrors of CiteSeer
• University of Kansas CiteSeer
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology CiteSeer
• University of Zurich CiteSeer
• National University of Singapore CiteSeer

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Using CiteSeer

• Search by
• Word based measures
• Name
• Particular subject
• Shows
• Related documents
• Percentage of matching sentences between documents

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Using CiteSeer

• Shows meta-data about searched articles
• List of links
• Cited what you searched
• of citations
• Higher is better
• More credible
• Year

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Using CiteSeer

• Clicking on a link
• More specific information
• Similar documents based on
• Sentence level (title)
• Text within document
• Active bibliography
• List of citations within document
• May not include all citations

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Important Information Found

• Person Search
• David L. Parnas
• Topic Search
• Speech Recognition

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CiteSeer Evaluation

• Powerful search
• Shows what others think of particular searched
  item
• Shows vast array of papers/documents written
• Provide
• Meta-data on articles
• Automatic acknowledgement indexing