CS598-CXZ Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval (Spring 2005)

Instructor: ChengXiang Zhai

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Schedule (Please check regularly for updating)


Notes:
Date Topic Readings Presenter(s)
Jan 18 Tue Course introduction; Overview of Information Retrieval (ppt) Bush 45, NSF IDM Program, Business View of IR ChengXiang Zhai

Topic Identification/Brainstorming
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

Paper Presentation I
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.

Mini Workshops (Project Progress Report)
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

Paper Presentation II (Additional topics)
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

Application Panels
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)

Project Posters
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.