James' weekly student meeting, Spring 2007

This page covers information related to the weekly meeting of James' students. You can also look at Fall 2006 if you like.

This semester, we normally meet TBAs in TBA, TBA, with the room reserved until TBA for added discussion.

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Suggested papers

If you have a paper that you think ought to be considered for presentation, please list it below. At a minimum, please provide a link to the text of the paper (or a page that contains such a link), the venue where it appeared, the date it appeared (or will appear), and your name (so James can ask you questions if needed). Other information (title, author, etc) is great, but not critical. James gets to decide which papers are actually selected, and may opt not to include any of the ones below. If you like a paper that's listed, please feel free to add your vote of interest: "great idea (ja)".

• Qiu and Cho (UCLA), "Automatic Identification of User Interest For Personalized Search", WWW 2006. Claims that user preferences can be learned in a few clicks. pdf
• David Carmel, Elad Yom-Tov, Adam Darlow, and Dan Pelleg, “What makes a query difficult?”, SIGIR06, pdf (suggested by F)
• George Forman, “Tackling Concept Drift by Temporal Inductive Transfer ”, SIGIR06, pdf (suggested by F)
• Jun and Ahamad (GIT), "FeedEx: Collaborative Exchange of News Feeds", WWW 2006. A variation on collaborative filtering. pdf

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