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Synthesis Lectures on Information
Concepts, Retrieval, and Services
Editor
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services publishes short books on
topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery,
production, distribution, and management. Potential topics include: data models, indexing theory
and algorithms, classication, information architecture, information economics, privacy and iden-
tity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management,
human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, in-
formation retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question
answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval,
multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.
Interactive IR User Study Design, Evaluation, and Reporting
Jiqun Liu and Chirag Shah
Predicting Information Retrieval Performance
Robert M. Losee
Framing Privacy in Digital Collections with Ethical Decision Making
Virginia Dressler
Mobile Search Behaviors: An In-depth Analysis Based on Contexts, APPs, and Devices
Dan Wu and Shaobo Liang
Images in Social Media: Categorization and Organization of Images and eir Collections
Susanne Ørnager and Haakon Lund
Exploring Context in Information Behavior: Seeker, Situation, Surroundings, and Shared Identities
Naresh Kumar Agarwal
Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments
Lori McCay-Peet and Elaine G. Toms
Social Monitoring for Public Health
Michael J. Paul and Mark Dredze