| Date | Topic | Readings | Presenter(s) |
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| Jan 18 Tue | Course introduction; Overview of Information Retrieval (ppt) | Bush 45, NSF IDM Program, Business View of IR | ChengXiang Zhai |
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Topic Identification/Brainstorming |
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| Jan 20 Thu | Real world IR challenges (ppt) | ChengXiang Zhai | |
| Jan 25 Tue | Web: Topic Identification (topics, ppt) | World Wide Web Conferences | ChengXiang Zhai |
| Jan 27 Thu | Email: Topic Identification (topics, ppt) | CEAS 2005, CEAS 2004 | ChengXiang Zhai |
| Feb 1 Tue | Literature: Topic Identification (topics, ppt) | ChengXiang Zhai | |
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Paper Presentation I |
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| Feb 3 Thu | Web: Adaptive Web Search (ppt) | Sugiyama et al. 04 | Xuehua Shen |
| Feb 8 Tue | Email:The Enron Corpus (ppt) | Klimt & Yang 2004, Xi et al. 04 | William Lee |
| Feb 10 Thu | Literature: Topical Crawlers (ppt) | Pant et al. 04, Qin et al. 04 | Qiaozhu Mei |
| Feb 15 Tue | Web: Block-based Web Search (ppt) | Cai et al 04 | Hong Cheng |
| Feb 17 Thu | Email: Spam Detection (ppt) | Cormack & Lynam 04 | Hui Fang |
| Project proposals due on Feb. 22 | |||
| Feb 22 Tue | Literature: Gene Clustering through Medline Analysis (ppt) | Homayouni et al. 04 | Jing Jiang |
| Feb 24 Thu | Project Proposal Reviewing/Discussion | ||
| Mar 1 Tue | Web: Self-Annotating the Web (ppt) | Cimiano et al. 04 | Hieu Le |
| Mar 3 Thu | Literature: Extracting Protein Function Information from Medline | Daraselia et al. 04 | Xu Ling |
| Online project proposal reviews due on March 8 | |||
| Mar 8 Tue | Email: Question-Answer Extraction | Shrestha & McKeown 04 | Yifan Li |
| Mar 10 Thu | Email: A Personal Email Assistant | Bergman et al. 02 | Yi-Ting Chou |
| Mar 15 Tue | Web: Search Result Summarization | Radev & Fan 00 | Shui-Lung Chuang |
| Mar 17 Thu | Literature: Event threading within news topics | Nallapati et al. 04 | Bin Tan |
| Mar 22 Tue | Spring Break | ||
| Mar 24 Thu | Spring Break | ||
| Mar 29 Tue | No class (Instructor out of town) | Working on course projects. | |
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Mini Workshops (Project Progress Report) |
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| Mar 31 Thu | Project progress report (CCW, CS, FL, HLe, BTan) (schedule) | Instructions & Grading Criteria | |
| Apr 5 Tue | Project progress report(FLL, QMei, JL, HLiu) (schedule) | Instructions & Grading Criteria | |
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Paper Presentation II (Additional topics) |
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| Apr 7 Thu | Web: Caching and Prefetching (ppt) | Lempel & Moran 03 | Omid Fatemieh |
| Apr 12 Tue | Text Mining: Unsupervised Learning of topics and syntax (ppt) | Griffiths et al 04 | Han Liu |
| Apr 14 Thu | Web: Web Customization using Remote Agent | Huang & Pasquale 04 | Benjamin Lambert | Apr 19 Tue | Web: Strategies for Similarity Search | Haveliwala et al. 02 | Xuanhui Wang |
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Application Panels |
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| Apr 21 Thu | Panel I: Next-generation Web Search Engines (details) | Slides(Chou, Chuang, Le , Liu,Mei, Shen, Tan, Wang) | |
| Apr 26 Tue | Panel II: Community Information Service (details) | Slides(Lee, Fang, Li, Cheng, Jiang.Ling, Fatemieh, Lambert) | |
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Project Posters |
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| Apr 28 Thu | Project Poster I (Schedule and Details) | ||
| May 3 Tue | Project Poster II (Last class) (Schedule and Details) | ||
| May 5 Thu | Reading Day | ||
| May 8 Sunday | Project report due | Project reports are available here. | |