Wednesday 3/28
We went over the McNamee and Mayfield paper, in some detail, and then we finished Salton and Buckley's relevance feedback paper. Shannon's 1948 paper is available on the web, and is still worth reading.

The use of LSA in cross-lanaguage IR is described in several places, e.g.
http://lsi.research.telcordia.com/lsi/papers/XLANG96.pdf