Information Retrieval Seminar (Spring 2004)

CS491CXZ. Call number:01548

Time: Thursday 9:30-10:30am

Location: 2124 Siebel Center

Announcments:

04/20: The next week's paper has been changed.
02/03: The paper list is available here .
01/19: Welcome to the class!

Instructor: Professor ChengXiang Zhai

About the course:

The course is a focused seminar on cutting-edge information retrieval (IR) topics. It will cover papers on selected topic areas in IR and bring students to the frontier of research in these selected topics.

The paper list will be available here .

Format:

Each regular class consists of a 40 minute student presentation and a 20 minute discussion session. People can stay longer for extended discussions if they want; the room is reserved until 11:00am. It is possible for one class to cover more than one paper; two people may also pair up to give one presentation.

The instructor will give an overview of the selected topics in the first class.

Grading:

Grading will be mainly based on participation and presentation. Every student is expected to give at least one presentation and to participate in at least 85% of the classes.

Schedule:

Date	Presenter	Content
1/29	Cheng	Overview [slides]
2/05	Hui	Searching XML Documents via XML fragments [slides]
2/12	Tao	Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection [slides]
2/19	Gabriel	Term-specific smoothing for the language modeling approach to information retrieval: the importance of a query term [slides]
2/26	William	A framework for expressing and combining preferences [slides]
2/26	Jing Zhang	Personalized web search by mapping user queries to categories [slides]
3/04	Xiao	Haystack: Per-User Information Environments [slides]
3/11	Xuehua	Self-Adaptive User Profiles for Large-Scale Data Delivery [slides]
3/18	Jing Jiang	Accomplishments and challenges in literature data mining for biology[slides]
4/01	Rishi and Robin	Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems
4/08	Zheng	PXML: A Probabilistic Semistructured Data Model and Algebra [slides]
4/15	Bei	Coupled Clustering: A Method for Detecting Structural Correspondence
4/22	Bin	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents
4/29	Azadeh	Keyword searching and browsing in databases using BANKS