Information Retrieval Seminar (Spring 2008)

CSE888I02

Time: 2:30-3:20

Location: DL305

Announcments:

March 24: Welcome to the class! We will not meet in the first week. However, you are encouraged to attend the first lecture of 788I02 for an overview of IR.

Instructor: Hui Fang

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.

Format:

Each regular class consists of a 35 minute student presentation and a 15 minute discussion session.

Grading:

Grading will be mainly based on participation and presentation/critiques. Every student is required to give a presentation or write two critiques for the papers discussed in the lecture.

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please feel free to select a paper from the reading list or suggest a paper that you are interested.
If you want to write critiques for the papers, please email the critique to the instructor BEFORE the meeting. The critiques should concisely summarize the contribution and weaknesses of the paper and describe how we can think beyond the paper (e.g., a related interesting problem to consider; an alternative approach; a solution in a different setting etc.).

Schedule:

Date	Presenter	Content
Week 2	Srikar Y	(PPT) PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining (ACL07)
Week 3	Divya Sridharabalan	Learn from Web Search Logs to Organize Search Results (SIGIR07)
Week 4	Kelly Yackovich	Identifying the influential bloggers in a community. (WSDM08)
Week 5	Ying Tu	TBD
Week 6	Darla Shockley	Query Performance Prediction in Web Search Environments
Week 7	Aditya Torvi	Preferential Behavior in Online Groups.(WSDM08)
Week 8	George Bulwinkle	How to search a social network
Week 9	Anna Wolf	On Ranking Controversies in Wikipedia: Models and Evaluation.(WSDM08)
Week 10	Shirish Tatikonda	Mining query logs to optimize index partitioning in parallel web search engines