IR seminar, April 11, 2008 Distributed IR, Jangwon Seo Background: Distributed IR (or federated search)is searching relevant documents or ranking databases in the ...
IR seminar, May 9, 2008 SIGIR 2008 papers. Process The following papers will appear in SIGIR this summer (2008) in Singapore. Please select one paper to present. ...
CIIR bi-weekly lab meetings, Spring 2008 This page lists IRlab meetings for this semester. Please feel free to edit the wiki to sign up for a meeting. What was presented ...
IR seminar, May 2, 2008 Topic: NLP in IR People leading: Manjunatha Jagalur Background: Given that most of the text documents are in natural languages and user needs ...
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 ...
IR seminar, April 18, 2008 Topic: Generative vs. discriminative models. People leading: Vidit Jain. Background: This seminar would focus on the comparison and contrast ...
KEEP GROUP IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Set GROUP Main.JamesAllan, Main.AronCulotta, Main.FernandoDiaz, Main.AoFeng, Main.ShaoleiFeng, Main.AndreGauthier, Main.JiwoonJeon ...
IR seminar, April 4, 2008, (this week at 9:30am in Room 142 ) Topic Evaluation, XingYi and XiaobingXue leading Background: This week’s session will discuss the challenges ...
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Name: Vidit Jain Email: vidit@cs.umass.edu Company Name: Umass Vision Company URL: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~vidit Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to ...
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IR seminar, March 28, 2008 Topic : Web IR JinyoungKim leading. Background: Web has been a primary driving force of IR research, providing problems and challenges ...
CIIR annotation work This page lists the tasks that annotators are currently assigned. NOTES: Check this Web page every day when you start When you complete a task ...
Galago Created by Trevor Strohman Contents External Links Important Notes Getting Galago Setting up Galago Indexing Collections Locally On Clusters Running Queries ...
IR seminar, March 7, 2008 Topic: Book Retrieval, Michael and Elif leading. Background: The goal of this week's session will be to understand and discuss book retrieval ...
Statistics for TWiki.Main Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: Mar 2008 77 12 ...
IR seminar, February 29, 2008 Personal Information Management (PIM), Marc Henry leading. Background: Personal information management (PIM) is a sub-field of IR and ...
Research Faculty Candidate Talk David Smith Johns Hopkins University The Center for Language and Speech Processing Friday, March 7th, 2008 Computer Science Building ...
IR seminar, February 19, 2008 Web projections, Sue Dumais (Microsoft) leading February 19th is a Tuesday (but a Monday class schedule). Note room and time change ...
IR seminar, February 8, 2008 Passages and XML, James leading. We consider the topic of passage retrieval and XML element retrieval for this class. The general idea ...
IR seminar, February 15, 2008 Learning to rank, Ben leading. First, the LETOR benchmark dataset paper (pdf) is worth reading because it explains the nature of the ...
This is the CIIR internal wiki page. It is intended for use by CIIR members only and is editable by those people only. At the moment, the pages are visible by anyone ...
CIIR !GALE Y2 annotation work This page is for the !GALE Arabic/Mandarin judging Contacts: James Allan and Bob Armstrong Judgment interface is here. Project instructions ...
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 ...
Main.ElifAktolga 07 Dec 2007 Do Summaries Help? A Task-Based Evaluation of Multi-Document Summarization Date Place Author Keyword 2005 SIGIR K. McKeown, R. J. Passonneau ...
Fall 2007 Reading Group Objectives This reading group is open to anyone who want to learn more about IR. Since new students are expected to form majority, we'll be ...
Respect my authority! HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models Summary Representing structural re-ranking of top ranked documents in the graph ...
Date Place Author Keyword(s) 2005 AIRWeb Gyongyi Garcia-Molina web spam, spam farm Summary The problem of techniques designed to circumvent proper operation ranking ...
Using WordNet(TM) to Disambiguate Word Sences for Text Retrieval Date Place Author Keyword 1993 SIGIR Ellen M. Voorhees Indexing word sense classes. Summary This ...
Main.XiaobingXue 10 Oct 2007 Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation Date Place Author Keyword 1999 SIGIR A. Berger and J. Lafferty Statistical machine ...
Main.ElifAktolga 04 Oct 2007 A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering Date Place Author Keyword 2003 ACL A. Echihabi and D. Marcu question answering Summary ...
Name: Xiaobing Xue Email: xuexb@cs.umass.edu Company Name: CIIR Company URL: Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki Sandbox.WebHome web to try out ...
Predicting Query Performance Date Place Author Keyword 2002 SIGIR Steve Cronen-Townsend,Yun Zhou,W. Bruce Croft query clarity Summary This paper develops an original ...
Date Place Author Keyword 1996 SIGIR Singhal,Buckley,Mitra document length Summary Collection-independent document normalization scheme that reduces the gap between ...
Name: Elif Aktolga Email: elif@cs.umass.edu Company Name: CIIR Company URL: Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki Sandbox.WebHome web to try out ...
If you think this page looks a lot like the PivotedDocumentLengthNormalization , you're right. I used Jinyoung's format. Thanks Jinyoung! Date Place Author Keyword ...
Name: Jinyoung Kim Email: jykim@cs.umass.edu Belongs to : CIIR Webside URL: http://www.lifidea.com (to be renewed) Comment: New student in CIIR. My Links TWIKIWEB ...
Name: Marc Cartright Email: irmarc@cs.umass.edu Company Name: CIIR Company URL: Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki Sandbox.WebHome web to try ...
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CIIR weekly lab meetings, Spring 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 ...
Name: John Kole Email: andrix 111@yahoo.com Company Name: Company URL: Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki Sandbox.WebHome web to try out TWiki ...
Name: Bob Armstrong Email: boba@cs.umass.edu Company Name: ciir Company URL: Comment: My Links TWIKIWEB .WelcomeGuest to learn TWiki Sandbox.WebHome web to try out ...