The goal of our research program is to explore the potential of internet-based digital libraries. Our vision is to develop systems that automatically impose structure on anarchic, uncatalogued, distributed repositories of information, thereby providing information consumers with effective tools to locate what they need and to peruse it conveniently and comfortably.

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Project members are actively working on techniques for creating, managing, and and maintaining collections; extracting metadata from legacy documents; analyzing library usage and user needs; Mostly English language systems; internationalizing the library interface; optical music recognition and musical collections; novel interfaces for formulating queries and visualizing results; novel interfaces for browsing metadata; text mining for key phrases, acronyms, and other metadata; key phrase extraction and phrase-based browsing; and other research topics.

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