CIIR weekly lab meetings

Fall 2003

• September 16. Predicting value of query expansion
  • Andres PPT:
  • Steve C-T. PPT

• September 23. Cross-language issues
  • Victor giving a tutorial of statistical machine translation basics PPT:
  • Leah talking about the DARPA surprise language exercise.

• September 30. Smoothing
  • Alvaro on smoothing at eBay
  • Ramesh on a Zhai and Lafferty smoothing paper. PPT
    • Chengxiang Zhai and John Lafferty, Model-based Feedback in the Language Modeling Approach to Information Retrieval,CIKM, 403-410, 2001. citeseer
    • Chengxiang Zhai and John Lafferty, A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval, SIGIR 334-342, 2001. citeseer

• October 7. (cancelled)

• October 14. Music
  • Jeremy/Victor on their ACM Multimedia paper on CRFs for music retrieval
  • Vanessa on "Automatic transcription of piano music" by Rafeal, ISMIR 2002 PDF.

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• October 21. Arabic
  • Nasreen on name transliteration PPT
  • Giri presenting "Unsupervised learning of Arabic stemming using a parallel corpus" by Rogati et al, ACL 2003 PS.gz.

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• October 28. CIKM practice talks
  • Xiaoyan on time-based language models PPT:
  • Ao Feng on clustering evaluation in TDT detection PPT:

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• November 4. (CIKM is happening in New Orleans.)
  • Hema Raghavan on Query-Free News Search (Monika Henzinger et al, WWW 2003)HTML
  • James Allan on aligning transcripts and handwriting

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    Giri

• November 11. No meeting; today is Veteran's Day.

• November 18. (TREC is happening in Gaithersburg.)
  • Trevor Strohman on IR performance issues PPT
  • Fuchun Peng on extracting information from technical papers

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    Nadia

• November 25.
  • Ben Carterette on BLEU and IR
  • Xing Wei on table processing PPT

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    Charles

• December 2.
  • Don Metzler on LM and Inference networks PPT
  • Ramesh Nallapati on maximum entropy for IR PPT

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    Gary

• December 9.
  • Xiaoyong Liu on experiments with clusters and language models PPT
  • Margie Connell on cross-language processing for TDT PPT

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    BenWellner

• December 16.
  • Toni Rath on historical manuscript retrieval and recognition

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    Chirag

• CIIR-02092005.pdf: smucker/diaz presentation