The Information retrieval GEneral Reading (TIGER) Group


The Tiger


TIGER Weekly Schedule

Andrew Turpin founded TIGER in 2006 and organized weekly meetings for quite some time. See his original TIGER page for old discussions and historical reference.



Students, staff, and interested parties outside the university are welcome to attend. We encourage all members to suggest new research topics, guide, and participate in the weekly discussions. For inquiries about joining TIGER or guiding a discussion, please contact Shane Culpepper <"firstname dot lastname at rmit dot edu dot au">.

Date Guide Topic
December 22, 2009 NA TBD
December 15, 2009 NA TBD
December 8, 2009 Andrew Turpin and Falk Scholer The ANOVA tutorial
December 1, 2009 Andrew Turpin ADCS Practice Talk
November 24, 2009 Steve Garcia Overview of Zettair, Overview of the SEH Cluster
November 16, 2009 Alistair Moffat IR Colloquium at Melbourne University
November 10, 2009 Steven Burrows Overview of the 1st International Competition on Plagiarism Detection
November 3, 2009 NA No TIGER.
October 27, 2009 Matthias Petri On the use of words and n-grams for chinese information retrieval.
October 20, 2009 Michael Harris On comparing classifiers: Pitfalls to avoid and a recommended approach.
October 13, 2009 Falk Scholer Metric and Relevance Mismatch in Retrieval Evaluation.
October 6, 2009 Shane Culpepper Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data.
September 29, 2009 N/A No TIGER
September 22, 2009 N/A No TIGER
September 15, 2009 Shane Culpepper Fundamental parallel algorithms for private-cache chip multiprocessors.
September 8, 2009 Group Discussion Predicting user interests from contextual information
September 1, 2009 Chen Wu Searching Web Services
August 25, 2009 Sebastian Manth Seminar @ NICTA VRL
August 18, 2009 Steven Burrows COMPSAC Wrap-up
August 11, 2009 Falk Scholer SIGIR Wrap-up
August 4, 2009 N/A No TIGER
July 28, 2009 Andrew Turpin Helping users provide explicit feedback to measure search experience satisfaction.
July 21, 2009 Chris Hoobin Local text reuse detection
July 14, 2009 Jasbir Dhaliwal Practical implementation of rank and select queries
July 7, 2009 N/A No TIGER
June 30, 2009 Mingfang Wu JCDL Wrap-up
June 23, 2009 Steven Burrows COMPSAC Practice Talk
June 16, 2009 Andrew Turpin Seminar at Melbourne University
June 9, 2009 N/A No Tiger
June 2, 2009 N/A No Tiger
May 26, 2009 Lorena Leal Query-sets: Using implicit feedback and query patterns to organize web documents
May 19, 2009 James Thom PathRank: Web page retrieval with navigation path
May 12, 2009 Andrew Turpin Using multiple query aspects to build test collections without human relevance judgements
May 5, 2009 Steven Burrows DASFAA Highlights
April 28, 2009 Andrew Turpin ECIR Highlights
April 21, 2009 Jenny Zhang Automatic classification of web queries using very large unlabeled query logs
April 14, 2009 N/A No TIGER -- Easter Holiday
April 7, 2009 Shane Culpepper MapReduce: Simplified data processing on large clusters.
March 31, 2009 N/A No TIGER -- Postdoctoral Colloquium
March 24, 2009 Steven Burrows DASFAA Practice Talk
March 17, 2009 Shane Culpepper Fast phrase querying with combined indexes . Attendees might also be interested in the original ADC paper.
March 10, 2009 Andrew Turpin Trec and PAN Competition Discussions
March 3, 2009 Simon Puglisi A Crash Course in Wavelet Trees




Last Update: 10 September 2009