Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval

Spring 2008

Administration

• Meet Fridays, 2:30-4:30, room 140
• 3 credits

Meetings

Classes are in room 140 of the CS building unless otherwise noted.

• Friday, February 8, Passages and XML (James)
• Friday, February 15, Learning to rank (Ben)
• Tuesday, February 19, Sue Dumais of Microsoft Research visiting (all events in CS151)
  • 8:30am (or so), a breakfast sort of reception in cs151 for the IRlab and this seminar
  • 9:00am, Special day of seminar on Web projections
  • 3:40pm, reception in atrium
  • 4:00pm, a department seminar on IR in context
• Friday, February 22, no meeting
• Friday, February 29, Personal Information Management (Marc and Henry)
• Friday, March 7, Book Retrieval (Elif and Michael)
• Friday, March 14, Please attend Giri's PhD talk at 3pm in room 151
• Friday, March 21, no meeting (spring break)
• Friday, March 28, Web and IR (Jin-young)
• Friday, April 4, Evaluation (Xing and Xiaobing), this week at 9:30am in room 142
• Friday, April 11, Distributed IR(Jangwon)
• Friday, April 18, Generative vs. Discriminative methods (Vidit)
• Friday, April 25, possibly no meeting
• Friday, May 2, NLP in IR (Manju)
• Friday, May 9, SIGIR 2008 papers (Everyone)

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