CIIR weekly lab meetings, Fall 2007

This page lists IRlab meetings for this semester. Please feel free to edit the wiki to sign up for a meeting. What was presented in last semester's meeting is available here.

This semester, meetings are held on Wednesday mornings in CS 151 - the larger of the multipurpose rooms - from 10am-11am, unless otherwise specified.

Some notes:

• For the most part, we schedule two talks per meeting. Please plan on a 20-25 minute presentation with 5 or so minutes for questions (though the questions may end up happening during your talk rather than afterward.)
• If you are the first person speaking, get from CSCF the little bag containing the projector cable and remote and get set up starting at around 9:50. You should be able to start your talk as close to 10 as possible.
• If you are the second person speaking, please power down the projector and return the remote and cable to CSCF in the little bag they provide.

September

• 5th. IR Lab Fall kickoff meeting
• 12th. Ben Carterette; Mike Bendersky ("Passage LM's in ad hoc document retrieval")
• 19th. Giri Kumaran (canceled); Desi Petkova
• 26th. Yun Zhou thesis seminar; Also today, Also on the 26th - Our CIIR alum Jay Ponte visits as Google representative. See attached Google Agenda.
  • • GoogleAgenda.pdf:

October

• 3rd. Guest Speaker - Daniel Tunkelang of Endeca (CIIR Industrial Member) Title: Information Access: Successes and Open Problems
• 10th.
  • Speaker 1: Mark Smucker, Title: A Comparison of Statistical Significance Tests for Information Retrieval Evaluation
  • Speaker 2: Ben Carterette, Title: Hypothesis Testing with Incomplete Relevance Judgments
• 17th. CANCELLED
• 24th. TBA
• 31st. (costume optional!)
  • Speaker 1: Mark Smucker: UMass Complex Interactive Question Answering (ciQA) 2007: Human Performance as Question Answerers
  • Speaker 2: TBA

November

• 7th. TBA
• 14th.
  • Speaker 1: Ao Feng, Title: Finding and Linking Incidents in News
  • Speaker 2: TBA
• 21st. Thanksgiving Break - no meeting today
• 28th. No Lab meeting today.

December

• 5th.
  • Speaker 1: Kyung Soon Lee, Title: Resampling Feedback Documents Using Clusters
  • Speaker 2: Jangwon Seo, Title: Local Text Reuse Detection
• 12th. - Last meeting of the semester
  • Speaker 1: Xing Yi, Title: Evaluating Topic Models for Topic Discovery and IR on Large Scale Corpora
  • Speaker 2: Shaolei Feng, Title: TBA

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