This page lists papers and other topics of interest for the weekly IR seminar. For Spring 2003, the seminar meets Mondays from 1:30-3:30 in CS 203.

The seminar has a mailing list. To join or leave the list, go to http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/irseminar. To send messages to people on the list, email irseminar@ciir.cs.umass.edu.

Seminars are listed in reverse chronological order. Check the date carefully because some may be listed for the future.

Monday, May 12th

• Yang, Zhang, and Kisiel, "A scalability analysis of classifiers in text categorization." To appear in SIGIR 2003. PDF (Hard to view on the screen, but prints fine.)
• Teevan and Karger, "Empirical development of an exponential probabilistic model for text retrieval." Draft of paper to appear in SIGIR 2003. PS
• Would love to get another paper in here, but it looks like it won't be available in time.
• Last class of the semester

Monday, May 5th

Two quite different papers today. Was hoping to get a SIGIR paper from Robertson et al, but don't have it yet.

• Darwish and Oard, "Probabilistic Structured Query Methods." Draft of paper to appear in SIGIR 2003. PDF
• Sparck Jones, Robertson, Hiemstra, and Zaragoza, "Language modelling and relevance". Appears in Language Modeling for Information Retrieval, Croft and Lafferty, eds, 2003. PDF

Monday, April 28th

• Class cancelled

Wednesday, April 23rd (Monday class schedule)

• Pinto, McCallum, Wei, and Croft, "Table Extraction Using Conditional Random Fields." To appear in SIGIR 2003. PDF

Monday, April 21st

• Patriots Day, we do not meet

Monday, April 14th

• X.Li and Croft, "Time-based language models." CIIR technical report. PDF
• Allan, Wade, and Bolivar, "Retrieval and Novelty Detection at the Sentence Level." Draft of paper to appear in SIGIR 2003. PDF

Monday, April 7th

• Zhai, Cohen, and Lafferty, "Beyond Independent Relevance: Methods and Evaluation Metrics for Subtopic Retrieval." Preliminary draft of paper to appear in SIGIR 2003 (do not cite or distribute). PDF
• Second paper TBA.

Monday, March 31st

• Rath, Lavrenko, and Manmatha, "A statistical approach to retrieving historical manuscript images without recognition." ICCV submission. PDF
• Jeon, Lavrenko, and Manmatha, "Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models." Draft of paper to appear in SIGIR 2003. PDF

Monday, March 24th

• Lawrie and Croft, "Generating Hierarchical summaries for web searches." Submission to SIGIR. PDF
• Nevill-Manning, Witten, and Paynter, "Lexically-generated subject hierarchies for browsing large collections." In Int'l Journal on Digital Libraries, 2(2-3):111-123, 1999. Citeseer reference (the on-line file is 17 pages).

Monday, March 17th

• Spring break, we do not meet

Monday, March 10

• Allan and Kumaran, "Stemming in the language modeling framework." SIGIR submission. PDF
• Nallapati and Allan, "Sentence-forest language model." CIIR tech report. PDF

Monday, March 3

• IR-279: (2003) Diaz, F. and Allan, J., "Browsing-based User Language Models for Information Retrieval," submitted to SIGIR '03 Conference, Toronto, Canada, July 28-August 1, 2003. PDF
• Widyantoro, D.H., Ioerger, T. and Yen, J. (1999) An Adaptive Algorithm for Learning Changes in User Interests. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM'99, pp. 405-412, Kansas City, Kansas, November, 1999. PDF

Monday, February 24

• Cronen-Townsend, Corrada-Emmanuel, and Croft. "Predicting the quality of answer passage retrieval." SIGIR submission. PDF
• Corrada-Emmanuel, Croft, and Murdock. "Answer passage retrieval for question answering." SIGIR submission. PDF

Tuesday, February 18 is a Monday class schedule

• but unfortunately the snowstorm closed the university, so we didn't have class.

Monday, February 17

• is a holiday, no class

Monday, February 10

• Allan and Raghavan. "A probabilistic model of named entities: you are what they say you are." SIGIR submission. PDF
• Conrad and Utt. "A System for Discovering Relationships by Feature Extraction from Text Databases." SIGIR 1994. PDF

Suggestions for papers to consider

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