• Fernando Pereira. Formal Grammar and Information Theory: Together Again?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 358(1769):1239-1253, April 2000. PDF (Fernando Diaz)

Winter 2003 Discussion Group

OVERVIEW

This web page is for the use of the informal discussion group for the winter. All CIIR students/staff are welcome to join in. Our aim is to read, share and discuss in depth, several interesting papers in Information Retrieval. The methodology for the selection of papers and schedule of the discussion is as follows:

• We hope to discuss one paper per week (or meet more frequently if there is the desire to do so).
• Each person can post links to any paper(s) that he/she finds interesting.
• All members of the group cast their votes to the posted papers by typing in their name below the link to the paper. One vote per session. Votes are cumulative.
• Papers with higher number of votes will be pushed ahead of others in the schedule.
• Members can attend all the meetings or participate in only the meetings that discuss the papers to which they cast their votes.
• We will start meeting the week following Christmas, so please post your papers and cast your votes as soon as possible, so that the schedule can be finalized.

Below is the schedule and listing of papers to be discussed. Please add your choices and cast your votes there.

SCHEDULE

3 January

• "Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation", SIGIR 1999, Adam Berger and John Lafferty CiteSeer

10 January

• Tutorials on Expectation Maximization algorithm. We will be discussing Bilme's tutorial on CiteSeer. Supplemental reading: Minka's Tutorial page.

PAPER STANDINGS

Votes for the first week close one week before the discussion date (eg, 27/12/02 for the 3/1/03 discussion). One vote per discussion. Votes are cumulative (you can vote for the same paper across weeks). Please edit this page to post a paper or cast a vote

• Fernando Pereira. Formal Grammar and Information Theory: Together Again?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 358(1769):1239-1253, April 2000. PDF (Fernando Diaz)

PARTICIPANTS

Ramesh Nallapati, Hema Raghavan, Fernando Diaz, Vanessa Murdock

CONTACT

Please send email to Ramesh if you have any questions/suggestions.

-- EricGalis - 10 Feb 2003