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Papers, Presentations, &c.

• Benoit, G. (2011). Expanding, facilitating, and applying ruby to explore user engagement with encoded texts iSchool poster
• Benoit, G. (2011). auroraDL and responding to end-user digital library needs iSchool poster
• Benoit, G. (2011). Measuring Relevance Theory’s Effects in an image-driven explorative information system. iSchool poster
• Benoit, G. (2011). Integrating use-context data. J Library Metadata in press
• Benoit, G. (2011). Critical Theory and LIS. LISR link
• Benoit, G. (submitted). The aesthetic turn: ethics of information retrieval and visualization. Submitted; being revised to reviewer comments. ms | reviewer comments
• Benoit, G., & Hussey, L. (2010). Digital object repurposes: four case studies from the publishing industry. JASIST, 62(2), 363-374. link
• Benoit, G. (2010). The ‘beautiful’ in information: philosophy of aesthetics and information visualization. 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK. Lecture Notes on Computer Science, Springer Verlag.
• Benoit, G. (2008, Oct.). Interactive 3D Visual Retrieval for Art History Education. Proceedings ASIST
• Benoit, G. (2007, Oct.). Critical Theory and the Legitimacy and Information Science. Information Research, 12(4). link
• Chan, L. M. (2007). Contributed section on SGML and XML for Chan’s Cataloging and Classification. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Benoit, G. (2007). Theory of Communication Action and LIS. Epistemological Lifeboat, B. Hørland, Ed. link
• Benoit, G. (2005). Theory of Communicative Action. In K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & L. McKechnie (Eds.), Theories of information behavior: a researcher’s guide. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
• Benoit, G. (2005). Application of Markov chains in an interactive information retrieval system. Information Processing & Management, 41, 843-857. DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2004.06.005
• Benoit, G. (2004). Bioinformatics. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, vol. 40. Medford, NJ: Information Today for ASIST.
• Benoit, G., Chan, L.-M., Andrews, J. E. (2004). “lois” – locally-organized information system. Information Seeking in Context, Dublin, Ireland, Sept. 2004. Information Research.
• Benoit, G. (2004, April). Properties-based retrieval and user decision states: user control and behavior modeling. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 55(6), 471-487.
• Benoit, G. (2002, Oct.). Towards a critical theoretic perspective in information systems. Library Quarterly, 72(4), 444-474.
• Benoit, G. (2002, Sept.). Properties-based tailoring of information seeking contexts. New Review of Information Seeking Behavior Research, 3/4, Sept. 2002/2003.
• Benoit, G. (2001). Critical theory as a foundation for pragmatic information systems design. Information Research, 6(2).
• Benoit, G. (2002). Data discretization for novel information discovery. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53(9), 736-746.
• Benoit, G. (2002). Data mining. In B. Cronin (Ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), vol. 36, pp. 265-310. Medford, NJ: Information Today for ASIST.
• Benoit, G. (2002, May). Interactive visualization for resource co-location, Special Supplement MLA ’02 Abstracts, Medical Library Assoc., Dallas, TX, p. 36.
• Benoit, G. (2002). Markov-Chain model for evidence-adaptive clinical decision support system. Proceedings, American Medical Informatics Association, San Antonio, TX.
• Benoit, G. (2002, Nov.). Weighted Markov chains and interactive graphic state nodes for information retrieval. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science Annual Meeting, pp. 115-123.
• Benoit, G., & Andrews, J. (2000). Data discretization for novel resource discovery in large medical datasets. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, 61-5. pdf link
• Stapley B. J., & Benoit, G. (2000). BioBibliometrics: information retrieval and visualization from co-occurrences of gene names in Medline abstracts. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium of Biocomputing, 5, 529-540.

• Benoit, G., & Rashid, F. (2009, Nov.). Iraq’s Digital Library Dilemma: OpenSource Digital Objects Repository architecture, tools, and interface project. ASIST, Vancouver, BC.
• Benoit, G., Bartley, P. T., & Hussey, L. (2009, Nov.). Repurposing digital objects: seven case studies across the publishing and information industry. ASIST, Vancouver, BC.
• Interactive 3D Visualization for Art History Education, ASIST annual conference, Columbus, OH, Oct 25, 2008.
• Doctoral seminar - 3d visualization, University of Washington, Seattle. January 2008.
• Critical theory and the legitimacy of information science. CoLIS7, Högskolan i Borås, Sweden, August 16, 2007.
• Cross-language information retrieval. International Federation of Library Associations, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004.
• Weighted Markov chains and graphic state nodes for information retrieval. American Society for Information Science & Technology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Nov. 2002.
• Properties-based tailoring of information seeking contexts. Information Seeking in Context, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2002.
• Markov-Chain Model for Evidence-Adaptive Clinical Decision Support System. American Medical Informatics Association, San Antonio, TX, 2002.
• Interactive visualization for resource co-location. Medical Library Assoc., 2002.
• Applying Communicative Action to Inter-group Computer Mediated Cooperative Work. International Communications Association annual conference, Seoul, S. Korea, June 2002 (co-author, James Andrews).
• Interactive Visualization for Resource Co-Location, Medical Library Assoc., Dallas, TX, May 2002.
• Data discretization for novel resource discovery in large medical datasets. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, November 2000.
• Critical theory as a foundation for pragmatic information systems design, Information Seeking in Context 2000, Gothenburg, Sweden, August 16-18, 2000.
• PCSB 2000: Pacific Conference on Structural Biology – BioBibliometrics: information retrieval and visualization from co-occurrence of gene names in Medline abstracts.
• ISMB1999, 7th International Conference on Intelligence Systems for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg, Germany, Aug 6-10, 1999 (co-author Benjamin J. Stapley, Univ. of Sheffield, UK).
• Logic, language and communication in information systems. Graduate Communications Seminar, University of Kentucky, October 7, 1999.
• Systems, Theories & Language: the cyclic nature of technological change. Univ. of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, April 19, 1999.
• The Use of Information Technology in the Foreign Language Curriculum, Middlebury College, June 9, 1998.