Research

Publications

• Jhon G. Botello, Lesley Frew, Jose J. Padilla, and Michele C. Weigle. “Exploring Large Language Models for Analyzing Changes in Web Archive Content: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach.” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Computational Archival Science Workshop. December 2024. (pdf)
• Lesley Frew. “Surfacing Text Changes in Archived US Federal Environmental Websites.” In ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. Fall 2024. (thesis - open access)
• Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Retrogressive Document Manipulation of US Federal Environmental Websites.” In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). October 2024. (open access)
• Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle, “Making Changes in Webpages Discoverable: A Change-Text Search Interface for Web Archives.” In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). June 2023. Best Student Paper Award. (arxiv pre-print, slides)

Conference Presentations

• Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle. “Temporally Extending Existing Web Archive Collections for Longitudinal Analysis.” Presented at Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials (RESAW). June 2025. (arxiv pre-print, slides)
• Lesley Frew and Michele C. Weigle. “US Computer Science Faculty Pipeline Dashboard.” Presented at ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC). March 2025. (dashboard)
• Lesley Frew, Michael L. Nelson, and Michele C. Weigle. “Information Retrieval Needs in Climate Impact from Federal Environmental Webpages.” Presented at ACM SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact. July 2024. (workshop arxiv pre-print)

Blog Posts

• Dissertation Research
  • 2025-03-27: Establishing a Baseline by Administration for the Takedown of US Government Webpages using Web Archives
• Thesis Research
  • 2024-10-02: MS Thesis: Surfacing Text Changes in Archived Webpages
  • 2023-08-21: Animating Changes in Webpages: Virginia Department of Health
  • 2023-05-31: Towards an Ethical Framework for Full-Text Search in Web Archives
  • 2023-02-26: Animating Changes in Webpages, Featuring George Santos’s Biography
  • 2022-08-04: Web Archiving in Popular Media II: User Tasks of Journalists
• Trip reports
  • 2025-05-12: ACM Capital Region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) 2025 Trip Report
  • 2025-01-06: 9th Computational Archival Science Workshop Trip Report
  • 2024-11-15: The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024 Trip Report
  • 2024-08-30: The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 2024 Trip Report
  • 2023-07-26: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2023 Trip Report
  • 2023-07-23: “Up and running with ARK persistable identifiers” JCDL Tutorial Trip Report
• Paper Summaries
  • 2022-07-22: Summary of “Web Archiving and Search Personalized”
  • 2022-05-03: Summary of “Temporal Search in Web Archives”
• 2022-01-21: Lesley Frew (Computer Science Masters Student)

Grant Project Participation

• Equipping for Praxis: Advancing Computer Science Teachers Through Endorsement, 2022 - present
  • Practitioner Member, Research-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) team
  • National Science Foundation Grant #2219770
  • Lesley Frew, Shelita Hodges, Ebonie Campbell, Debra Bernstein, and Chris Mayfield. “Developing High School CS Teacher Identity: A Longitudinal, Mixed-Methods Study of CTE Teachers.” In Proceedings of ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER). August 2025.