Indian Statistical Institute Documentation Research Training Centre Bangalore-560059 SEMINAR ON Mapping Information Retrieval Research Mapping of a domain has been a widely employed technique in scientometrics to study its dynamics over time. It is a common practice to base such mapping on published literature in the area. Mapping the dynamics of a discipline over time is expected to highlight the shift, if any, in the research fronts in that domain. Literature on mapping is extensive and has references to the possible applications of mapping- the principal ones being science policy formulation, research funding, etc. In this seminar it is proposed to present structural changes in the domain of Information retrieval as seen via mapping its dynamics over the last 35 years. The choice of IR has been influenced by the fact that IR, more than any other sub-discipline, has influenced the direction of Information Science. The IR research community has also expanded considerably and encompasses research in linguistics (e.g. NLP), data / text mining, ontology and semantic web, to mention a few that have attracted wide attention in addition to the traditional areas of IR research. The principal methodologies employed are ‘Co-word Analysis’ and ‘Co-citation Analysis’. The choice of these techniques for mapping the data was based on the fact that these have been effectively employed by many to project data as maps without loss of essential information and the fact that a public domain S/w is available. Speaker: Sucheta Lahiri (ADIS 2nd year) Date & Time: 2nd February at 2.00 p.m. Venue: DRTC Classroom All are cordially invited Dr.Devika.P.Madalli (Seminar co-coordinator) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.