Ralph Sommerer
Research - Publications

Publications

Conference Papers

Ralph Sommerer: Oberon Script: A Lightweight Compiler and Runtime System for the Web, Proceedings of the 7th Joint Modular Languages Conference, JMLC 2006, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2006, LNCS Vol 4228, Springer, 2006 [also available as MSR Technical Report 2006-50]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Rachel Jones, Kerry Rodden, Gavin Smyth, Alan Blackwell, Ralph Sommerer: SmartBack: Supporting Users in Back Navigation, 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2004), New York City NY, USA, May 2004 [PDF]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden: WebScout: Support for Revisitation of Web pages within a Navigation Session, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI2003): pp 689-693, Halifax, Canada, October 2003
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: Enhanced Web Publishing: Towards Integration of Search and Browsing, Libraries in the Digital Age 2003 (LIDA 2003), Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia, 2003 [PDF]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, Alan Blackwell: Effective Web Searching on Mobile Devices. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2003): pp 281-296, Bath, United Kingdom, 2003 [PDF]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: MS Read: User Modeling in the Web Environment. Proceedings of the 24th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2001): pp 458-458, 2001
Ralph Sommerer: Integrating Oberon Resources into the World-Wide Web. GI Jahrestagung 1995 (GISI 95), Informatik Aktuell, Springer: pp 733-739, 1995 [Abstract: HTML]

Book Chapters

Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, and Alan Blackwell: SmartView and SearchMobil: Providing Overview and Detail in Handheld Browsing [PDF], Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access (Lecture Notes on Computer Science), Springer, pp 158-171, 2004 [invited paper]

Poster Papers

Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Kerry Rodden, Alan Blackwell: SearchMobil: Web Viewing and Search for Mobile Devices, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, 2003 [HTML]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Gavin Smyth: MIDAS: Towards Rich Site Structure and Content Metadata, The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, 2003 [HTML]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer, Robert Tucker: MS WebScout: Web Navigation Aid and Personal Web History Explorer, The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu HI, USA, 2002 [HTML]
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: SmartView: Flexible Viewing of Web Page Contents, The Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu HI, USA, 2002 [HTML]

Workshop Papers

Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: SearchMobil: Search Support Interface for PDAs. SIGIR2002, Workshop on Mobile Personal Information Retrieval, 2002
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: Perspectives: Use of digital information. Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2002

Technical Reports

Ralph Sommerer: Presentable Document Format: Improved On-demand PDF to HTML Conversion, MSR Technical Report 2004-119, 2004
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: SmartView: Enhanced Document Viewer for Mobile Devices, MSR Technical Report 2002-114, 2002
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Ralph Sommerer: MS Read: Context Sensitive Document Analysis in the WWW Environment, MSR Technical Report 2001-63, 2001
Chuck Thacker, Ralph Sommerer: A Prototype Electronic Book, (unpublished) 1999 [PDF]

Articles

Ralph Sommerer: Dynamic Online Documents in Oberon. Oberon Newsletter, December 1994 [PS]

Thesis

Ralph Sommerer: Integration of Online Documents. Diss. ETH No. 11592, 1996 [PS]