Author: Ian H. Witten

Publications

Co-authors

Olena Medelyan

6

Saul Greenberg

7

David Bainbridge

24

Productive Colleagues

Harold Thimbleby

70

Carl Gutwin

116

Saul Greenberg

140

Publications

Medelyan, Olena, Milne, David, Legg, Catherine, Witten, Ian H. (2009): Mining meaning from Wikipedia. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 67 (9) pp. 716-754. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2009.05.004

Medelyan, Olena, Witten, Ian H. (2008): Domain-independent automatic keyphrase indexing with small training sets. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59 (7) pp. 1026-1040. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20790

Witten, Ian H. (2006): Digital libraries for the developing world. In Interactions, 13 (4) pp. 20-21.

Nichols, David M., Witten, Ian H., Keegan, Te Taka, Bainbridge, David, Dewsnip, Michael (2005): Digital libraries and minority languages. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 11 (2) pp. 139-155. https://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1361-4568&volume=11&issue=2&spage=139

Gori, Marco, Witten, Ian H. (2005): The bubble of web visibility. In Communications of the ACM, 48 (3) pp. 115-117. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1047671.1047715

Ware, Malcolm, Frank, Eibe, Holmes, Geoffrey, Hall, Mark, Witten, Ian H. (2001): Interactive machine learning: letting users build classifiers. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 55 (3) pp. 281-292.

Apperley, Mark, Cunningham, Sally Jo, Keegan, Te Taka, Witten, Ian H. (2001): NIUPEPA: a historical newspaper collection. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (5) pp. 86-87. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/374308.374360

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David, Boddie, Stefan J. (2001): Greenstone: Open-source DL software. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (5) pp. 47. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/374308.374338

Witten, Ian H., Loots, Michel, Trujillo, Maria F., Bainbridge, David (2001): The promise of digital libraries in developing countries. In Communications of the ACM, 44 (5) pp. 82-85. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/374308.374357

Witten, Ian H., McNab, Rodger J., Jones, Steve, Apperley, Mark, Bainbridge, David, Cunningham, Sally Jo (1999): Managing Complexity in a Distributed Digital Library. In IEEE Computer, 32 (2) pp. 74-79.

Moffat, Alistair, Neal, Radford M., Witten, Ian H. (1998): Arithmetic Coding Revisited. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 16 (3) pp. 256-294. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/journals/tois/1998-16-3/p256-moffat/p256-moffat.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Nevill-Manning, Craig G., McNab, Rodger J., Cunningham, Sally Jo (1998): A Public Library Based on Full-text Retrieval. In Communications of the ACM, 41 (4) pp. 71-75.

Maulsby, David, Witten, Ian H. (1997): Teaching Agents to Learn: From User Study to Implementation. In IEEE Computer, 30 (11) pp. 36-44.

Bell, Timothy C., Moffat, Alistair, Witten, Ian H., Zobel, Justin (1995): The MG Retrieval System: Compressing for Space and Speed. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (4) pp. 41-42.

Thimbleby, Harold W., Inglis, Stuart, Witten, Ian H. (1994): Displaying 3D Images: Algorithms for Single-Iamge Random-Dot Stereograms. In IEEE Computer, 27 (10) pp. 38-48.

Greenberg, Saul, Witten, Ian H. (1993): Supporting Command Reuse: Empirical Foundations and Principles. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 39 (3) pp. 353-390.

Greenberg, Saul, Witten, Ian H. (1993): Supporting Command Reuse: Mechanisms for Reuse. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 39 (3) pp. 391-425.

Bell, Timothy C., Moffat, Alistair, Nevill-Manning, Craig G., Witten, Ian H., Zobel, Justin (1993): Data Compression in Full-Text Retrieval Systems. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 44 (9) pp. 508-531.

Mo, Dan H., Witten, Ian H. (1992): Learning Text Editing Tasks from Examples: A Procedural Approach. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 11 (1) pp. 32-45.

Maulsby, David, Witten, Ian H., Kittlitz, Kenneth A., Franceschin, Valerio G. (1992): Inferring Graphical Procedures: The Compleat Metamouse. In Human-Computer Interaction, 7 (1) pp. 47-89.

Witten, Ian H., Thimbleby, Harold, Coulouris, G. F., Greenberg, Saul (1991): Liveware: A New Approach to Sharing Data in Social Networks. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 34 (3) pp. 337-348.

Darragh, John J., Witten, Ian H. (1991): Adaptive Predictive Text Generation and the Reactive Keyboard. In Interacting with Computers, 3 (1) pp. 27-50.

Witten, Ian H., Bell, Timothy C. (1990): Source Models for Natural Language Text. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 32 (5) pp. 545-579.

Thimbleby, Harold, Anderson, Stuart, Witten, Ian H. (1990): Reflexive CSCW: Supporting Long-Term Personal Work. In Interacting with Computers, 2 (3) pp. 330-336.

Darragh, John J., Witten, Ian H., James, Mark L. (1990): The Reactive Keyboard: A Predicive Typing Aid. In IEEE Computer, 23 (11) pp. 41-49.

Maulsby, David, Witten, Ian H. (1989): Inducing Programs in a Direct-Manipulation Environment. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 57-62.

Maulsby, David, Witten, Ian H. (1989): Teaching a mouse how to draw. In: Graphics Interface 89 June 19-23, 1989, London, Ontario, Canada. pp. 130-137.

Greenberg, Saul, Witten, Ian H. (1988): How Users Repeat Their Actions on Computers: Principles for Design of History Mechanisms. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 171-178.

Witten, Ian H., MacDonald, Bruce A. (1988): Using Concept Learning for Knowledge Acquisition. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 29 (2) pp. 171-196.

Witten, Ian H., Neal, Radford M., Cleary, John G. (1987): Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression. In Communications of the ACM, 30 (6) pp. 520-540.

Greenberg, Saul, Witten, Ian H. (1985): Adaptive Personalized Interfaces -- A Question of Viability. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 4 (1) pp. 31-45.

Witten, Ian H. (1985): Elements of Computer Typography. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 23 (6) pp. 623-687.

Zissos, Adrian Y., Witten, Ian H. (1985): User Modelling for a Computer Coach: A Case Study. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 23 (6) pp. 729-750.

Witten, Ian H., Bramwell, Bob (1985): A System for Interactive Viewing of Structured Documents. In Communications of the ACM, 28 (3) pp. 280-288.

Witten, Ian H., Cleary, John G., Greenberg, Saul (1984): On Frequency-Based Menu-Splitting Algorithms. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 21 (2) pp. 135-148.

Witten, Ian H., Greenberg, Saul, Cleary, John G. (1983): Personalizable directories: A case study in automatic user modelling. In: Graphics Interface 83 May 9-13, 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. pp. 183-189.

Witten, Ian H. (1982): Driving the Votrax Speech Synthesizer from a Wide Phonetic Transcription with High-Level P. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 16 (4) pp. 393-403.

Witten, Ian H., Abbess, J. (1979): A Microcomputer-Based Speech Synthesis-by-Rule System. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 11 (5) pp. 585-620.

Witten, Ian H., Madams, P. H. C. (1977): The Telephone Enquiry Service: A Man-Machine System using Synthetic Speech. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 9 (4) pp. 449-464.

Witten, Ian H. (1977): Exploring, Modelling and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 9 (6) pp. 715-735.

Witten, Ian H. (1976): "Communication Networks for Computers," by D. W. Davies and D. L. A. Barber. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 8 (1) pp. 121-124.

Atkin, R. H., Hartston, W. R., Witten, Ian H. (1976): Fred CHAMP, Positional-Chess Analyst. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 8 (5) pp. 517-529.

Witten, Ian H. (1975): "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics," by W. M. Newman and R. F. Sproull. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 7 (2) pp. 273-277.

Atkin, R. H., Witten, Ian H. (1975): A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Positional Chess. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 7 (6) pp. 727-750.

Witten, Ian H., Corbin, Malcolm J. (1973): Human Operators and Automatic Adaptive Controllers: A Comparative Study on a Particular Co. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 5 (1) pp. 75-104.

Witten, Ian H., Boddie, Stefan J., Bainbridge, David, McNab, Rodger J. (2000): Greenstone: A Comprehensive Open-Source Digital Library Software System. In: DL00: Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2000, . pp. 113-121. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/336597/p113-witten/p113-witten.pdf

Paynter, Gordon W., Witten, Ian H., Cunningham, Sally Jo, Buchanan, George (2000): Scalable Browsing for Large Collections: A Case Study. In: DL00: Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2000, . pp. 215-223. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/336597/p215-paynter/p215-paynter.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David, Boddie, Stefan J. (2001): Power to the People: End-User Building of Digital Library Collections. In: JCDL01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2001, . pp. 94-103. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/379437/p94-witten/p94-witten.pdf

Witten, Ian H. (2001): Tutorial 4: How to Build a Digital Library Using Open-Source Software. In: JCDL01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2001, . pp. 480. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/379437/p479-tutorials/p479-tutorials.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David (2001): Hands-On Workshop: Build Your Own Digital Library Collections. In: JCDL01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2001, . pp. 480. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/379437/p479-tutorials/p479-tutorials.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David, Paynter, Gordon, Boddie, Stefan (2002): The Greenstone plugin architecture. In: JCDL02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2002, . pp. 285-286. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/544220.544285

Witten, Ian H. (2002): How to build a digital library using open-source software. In: JCDL02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2002, . pp. 416. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/544220.544365

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David (2002): Hands-on workshop: build your own digital library collections. In: JCDL02: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2002, . pp. 420. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/544220.544369

Chu, Yi-Chun, Witten, Ian H., Lobb, Richard, Bainbridge, David (2003): How to turn the page. In: JCDL03: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2003, . pp. 186-188. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827140.827170

Bainbridge, David, Thompson, John, Witten, Ian H. (2003): Assembling and enriching digital library collections. In: JCDL03: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2003, . pp. 323-334. https://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=827140.827199

Chu, Yi-Chun, Bainbridge, David, Jones, Matt, Witten, Ian H. (2004): Realistic books: a bizarre homage to an obsolete medium?. In: JCDL04: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2004, . pp. 78-86. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/996350.996372

Bainbridge, David, Witten, Ian H. (2004): Greenstone digital library software: current research. In: JCDL04: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2004, . pp. 416. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/996350.996483

Buchanan, George, Bainbridge, David, Don, Katherine J., Witten, Ian H. (2005): A new framework for building digital library collections. In: JCDL05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2005, . pp. 23-31. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1065385.1065392

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David (2005): Building digital library collections with greenstone. In: JCDL05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2005, . pp. 425. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1065385.1065530

Bainbridge, David, Witten, Ian H. (2005): Practical digital library interoperability standards. In: JCDL05: Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2005, . pp. 426. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1065385.1065531

Bainbridge, David, Ke, Kaun Yu (Jeffrey), Witten, Ian H. (2006): Document level interoperability for collection creators. In: JCDL06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2006, . pp. 105-106. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141773

Medelyan, Olena, Witten, Ian H. (2006): Measuring inter-indexer consistency using a thesaurus. In: JCDL06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2006, . pp. 274-275. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141816

Medelyan, Olena, Witten, Ian H. (2006): Thesaurus based automatic keyphrase indexing. In: JCDL06: Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2006, . pp. 296-297. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141819

McNab, Rodger J., Smith, Lloyd A., Witten, Ian H., Henderson, Clare L., Cunningham, Sally Jo (1996): Towards the Digital Music Library: Tune Retrieval from Acoustic Input. In: DL96: Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1996, . pp. 11-18. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/226931/p11-mcnab/p11-mcnab.pdf

Nevill-Manning, Craig G., Witten, Ian H., Paynter, Gordon W. (1997): Browsing in Digital Libraries: A Phrase-Based Approach. In: DL97: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1997, . pp. 230-236. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/263690/p230-nevill-manning/p230-nevill-manning.pdf

Bainbridge, David, Nevill-Manning, Craig G., Witten, Ian H., Smith, Lloyd A., McNab, Rodger J. (1999): Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music. In: DL99: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1999, . pp. 161-169. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/313238/p161-bainbridge/p161-bainbridge.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Paynter, Gordon W., Frank, Eibe, Gutwin, Carl, Nevill-Manning, Craig G. (1999): KEA: Practical Automatic Keyphrase Extraction. In: DL99: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1999, . pp. 254-255. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/313238/p254-witten/p254-witten.pdf

Akscyn, Robert, Witten, Ian H. (1999): Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital Libraries. In: DL99: Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries , 1999, . pp. 267. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/dl/313238/p267-akscyn/p267-akscyn.pdf

McNab, Rodger, Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H., Gutwin, Carl (1998): Predicting Query Times. In: Proceedings of the 21st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1998, . pp. 355-356. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/ir/290941/p355-mcnab/p355-mcnab.pdf

Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David (2007): A retrospective look at Greenstone: lessons from the first decade. In: JCDL07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2007, . pp. 147-156. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255175.1255204

Liesaputra, Veronica, Witten, Ian H., Bainbridge, David (2007): Lightweight realistic books: the greenstone connection. In: JCDL07: Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2007, . pp. 502. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1255175.1255302

Milne, David, Nichols, David M., Witten, Ian H. (2008): A competitive environment for exploratory query expansion. In: JCDL08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2008, . pp. 197-200. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378922

Bainbridge, David, Jones, Steve, McIntosh, Sam, Jones, Matt, Witten, Ian H. (2008): Portable digital libraries on an iPod. In: JCDL08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2008, . pp. 333-336. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378945

Bainbridge, David, Witten, Ian H. (2008): A Fedora librarian interface. In: JCDL08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2008, . pp. 407-416. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378962

Bainbridge, David, Jones, Steve, McIntosh, Sam, Jones, Matt, Witten, Ian H. (2008): Running Greenstone on an iPod. In: JCDL08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , 2008, . pp. 419. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378966

Milne, David N., Witten, Ian H., Nichols, David M. (2007): A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia. In: Silva, Mario J., Laender, Alberto H. F., Baeza-Yates, Ricardo A., McGuinness, Deborah L., Olstad, Bjørn, Olsen, Øystein Haug, Falcão, André O. (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2007 November 6-10, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal. pp. 445-454. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1321440.1321504

Milne, David N., Witten, Ian H. (2008): Learning to link with wikipedia. In: Shanahan, James G., Amer-Yahia, Sihem, Manolescu, Ioana, Zhang, Yi, Evans, David A., Kolcz, Aleksander, Choi, Key-Sun, Chowdhury, Abdur (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - CIKM 2008 October 26-30, 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA. pp. 509-518. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1458082.1458150

Milne, David N., Medelyan, Olena, Witten, Ian H. (2006): Mining Domain-Specific Thesauri from Wikipedia: A Case Study. In: 2006 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2006 18-22 December, 2006, Hong Kong, China. pp. 442-448. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WI.2006.119

Medelyan, Olena, Perrone, Vye, Witten, Ian H. (2010): Subject metadata support powered by Maui. In: JCDL10 Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2010, . pp. 407-408. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1816123.1816204

Milne, David N., Witten, Ian H. (2011): A link-based visual search engine for Wikipedia. In: JCDL11 Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2011, . pp. 223-226. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1998076.1998118

Milne, David N., Witten, Ian H. (2011): Exploring Wikipedia with HMpara. In: JCDL11 Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2011, . pp. 453-454. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1998076.1998182

Bainbridge, David, Witten, Ian H. (2011): Perambulating libraries: demonstrating how a Victorian idea can help OLPC users share book. In: JCDL11 Proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Conference on Digital Libraries , 2011, . pp. 471-472. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1998076.1998191