Faculty Research

Computer Science majors, especially those planning to go on to graduate school, typically do an undergraduate research project, usually at the honors level. Most of these projects have been as part of part the active faculty research progams in Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Intelligent Agents, and Jazz a la Computer. Occasionally, students make arrangements to pursue other subjects as Individual Study projects.

Intelligent Information Retrieval (Lisa Ballesteros)

Research in the area of Cross-language Information Retrieval is developing technology that will enable us to build systems that allow a person to query in one language (e.g. English) and retrieve relevant documents in other languages (e.g. Spanish). The most recent approach results in very effective cross-language retrieval using translation via a machine readable dictionary and statistical techniques for reducing the effects of translation ambiguity. The statistical techniques are based on analysis of word co-occurrence in text.

Projects and more information.

Copies of student Honors Papers are kept in the Mount Holyoke College Library Archives and Special Collections, located on the Lower Level of Dwight. Honors papers are cataloged in the Five College Online Library Catalog.