The Information retrieval GEneral Reading (TIGER) Club

• Tuesday 14 October 2008
  Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams
  G Cormode and M Hadjieleftheriou, VLDB 2008
  
• For the next few weeks we will work through these SIGIR2008 papers (note ascending date order) at noon in Room 14.10.06a.

  12/8/08	SpotSigs: Robust and Efficient Near Duplicate Detection in Large Web Collections M. Theobald, J. Siddharth and A. Paepcke (Stanford University)
  19/8/08	Relevance Assessment: Are Judges Exchangeable and Does it Matter P. Bailey, N. Craswell, I. Soboroff, P. Thomas, A. de Vries and E. Yilmaz (NIST/Northeastern University/Microsoft/CWI/CSIRO ICT Centre)
  26/8/08	Query Expansion Using Gaze-Based Feedback on the Subdocument Level G. Buscher, A. Dengel and L. van Elst (DFKI)
  9/9/08	Effective and Efficient User Interaction for Long Queries G. Kumaran and J. Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  16/9/08	Two papers from VLDB Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications and eXtract: A Snippet Generation System for XML Search
  7/10/08	A New Rank Correlation Coefficient for Information Retrieval E. Yilmaz, J. Aslam and S. Robertson (Microsoft Research/Northeastern University)

• Tuesday 29th July 2008
  Ali talking about his two papers
  DistanceRank: An intelligent ranking algorithm for web pages
  Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki, Nasser Yazdani
  FICA: A Fast Intelligent Crawling Algorithm
  Ali Mohammad Zareh Bidoki, Nasser Yazdani and Pedram Ghodsnia
  noon 10.11.141
• Tuesday 1st July 2008
  William Webber telling us all about RBP and its relationship to nCDG.
  noon 14.10.06a
• Tuesday 24th June 2008
  Ming presenting Normalised Cummulative Discounted Gain paper...
  Kal et al
  noon 14.10.06a
• Friday 13th (oooo) June 2008
  Falk presenting Median measure: an approach to IR systems evaluation
  Howard Greisdorf and Amanda Spink,
  1:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 18th October
  Audrey giving her CIKM talk.
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 11th October
  Clustering tech report
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 4th September
  Emine Yilmaz and Javed A. Aslam. Estimating average precision with incomplete and imperfect judgments CIKM 2006.
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 28th August
  On the robustness of relevance measures with incomplete judgments. Bompada et al
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 14th August
  Machine learning: eg what the hell is a SVM?
  SVM Regression tutorial
• Tue 10th Jul
  Naive Bayes at Forty... David D. Lewis
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 3rd Jul
  Jun Jie does duplicate images
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 26th Jun
  Shane's seminar at unimelb.
• Tue 8th Jun
  Ming's seminar on "The Ross Experiment"
  12:30 14.10.06a
• Tue 22nd May
  Ranjan's seminar at unimelb. 12-1 Theatre 3 111 Barry St.
• Tue 15th May
  Less is More..." 12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 24th Apr
  A web-based kernel function for measuring the similarity of short text snippets 12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 17 Apr
  Up to the alignment section of SMT: really getting interesting now!
  12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 13 & 20 & 27 Mar
  Continue working with SMT (Yohannes to lead 13th) and R.
  Exercise 1: "optional exercise" at end of Section 14.
  Exercise 2: write a program to compute a language model of the bible.
  You might like to use my skeleton C code.
  Steve's Perl version. 12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 6 Mar
  Continue working with SMT (Yohannes to lead) and R.
  My answers to the R questions from last week.
  12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 27 Feb
  Work through the first 5 sections of Kevin Knight's tutorial on maths for MT .
  We will also begin R.
  Example R script and input data generated from this awk script.
  12:30pm 14.10.06a
• Tue 20 Feb
  No meeting. (Seminar at NICTA.)
• Tue 13 Feb
  Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval: using textual analysis to build a better model
  Local copy (pdf)
  Jaime Teevan, David R. Karger
  Presented by Andrew
  12:30pm 14.10.06a
• The papers we did towards the end of 2006.