Kwong Bor Ng, Associate Professor

Rosenthal Library 230
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
Phone: (718) 997-3613
Fax: (718) 997-3797
Email: kbng@qc.cuny.edu
Homepage: www.kwongbor.net

Education

Ph.D. (1998) Rutgers University - New Brunswick, N.J. Information Science

M.L.S. (1994) Rutgers University - New Brunswick, N.J. Library Studies

Work Experience

Courses Taught in the Past Two Years:

GSLIS 703: Technical Services
GSLIS 743: Information Access Systems
GSLIS 729: Metadata for Cataloging and Classification of Internet Resources
GSLIS 790: Design and Construction of Bibliographic Database
GSLIS 755: Design and Production of Interactive New Media

Research & Professional Interests

My areas of interests are quite diversified. They include algorithms of information retrieval, human computer interaction, knowledge organization and representation in a digital environment, information visualization, quantitative research methods, metadata standards for resource descriptions, computational linguistics, and data fusion.

Selected Publications

Ng, K.B., Kantor, P., Tang, R, Rittman, R., Small, S., Song, P., Strzalkowski, T. Sun, Y. and Wacholder, N. (in press) Identification of effective predictive variables for document qualities. To be published in Proceedings of 2003 Annual Meeting of American Society for Information Science and Technology. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.

Ng, K.B. (2002) Toward a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between situated action and planned action models of behavior in information retrieval contexts: contributions from Phenomenology. Information Processing and Management, 38(5), 613-625.

Ng. K.B. (2002) The applicability of universal pragmatics in information retrieval interaction: a pilot study. Information Processing and Management, 38(2), 237-348.

Ng, K.B. & Kantor, P.B. (2000). Predicting the effectiveness of naive data fusion on the basis of system characteristics. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 51(13), 1177-1189.

Burnett, K., Ng, K.B. & Park, S. (1999). A comparison of the two traditions of metadata development. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 50(13), 1209-1217.