Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Past IR-Series Presentations

Friday, November 2, 2007 - 12:00-1:00 pm, Newell-Simon Hall (NSH) 3002
Title: CMU at TREC 2007
Speakers: Jonathan Elsas, Le Zhao and Yangbo Zhu (CMU)

Friday, October 5, 2007 - 12:00-1:00 pm, Newell-Simon Hall (NSH) 3002
Title: Estimating and Exploiting Uncertainty in Pseudo-Relevance Feedback
Speakers: Kevyn Collins-Thompson (CMU)

Friday, July 13, 2007 - 12:00-1:00 pm, Newell-Simon Hall (NSH) 3002
Title: Utility-based Information Distillation Over Temporally Sequenced Documents
Speakers: Yiming Yang (CMU)

Friday, May 18, 2007 - 12:00-1:00 pm, Newell-Simon Hall (NSH) 3002
Title: Collaborative Web Search - Exploiting User Activity for User Benefit
Speaker: Jill Freyne (University College Dublin)
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Friday, January 19, 2007 - 12:00 NSH 3002
Title: Using Graphs and Random Walks to Discover Latent Similarities in Text
Speaker: Gunes Erkan
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Friday, November 10, 2006, 2007 - 12:00 NSH 3002
Title: Personal Metasearch
Speaker: Paul Thomas
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Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:00 NSH 3002
Title: Collaborative Adaptive User Profile with Implicit and Explicit User Feedback
Speaker: Yi Zhang
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 12:00, NSH 3002
Title: Deriving Marketing Intelligence from Online Discussion
Speaker: Matthew Hurst and Natalie Glance
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 12:00, NSH 3002
Title: A Graphical Framework for Contextual Search and Name Disambiguation in Email
Speaker: Einat Minkov
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 12:00, NSH 3002
Title: Structured and Dynamic Topic Models
Speaker: John Lafferty
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 12:00, NSH 3002
Title: Automatically Labeling Hierarchical Clusters
Speaker: Pucktada (Puck) Treeratpituk
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Friday, June 3, 2005 - 3:30, WeH 5409
Title: PageRank without Hyperlinks: Structural Re-ranking using Links Induced by Language Models
Speaker: Oren Kurland
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - 4:30, WeH 4601
Title: Dynamic Construction of Content-Based Topologies in Hierarchical Peer-to-Peer Networks
Speaker: Jie Lu
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 4:30, WeH 4601
Title: Modeling Search Engine Effectiveness for Federated Search
Speaker: Luo Si
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Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - 4:30, WeH 4623
Title: What is the matter? Explorations in text categorization
Speaker: Lillian Lee
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 - 4:30, WeH 4601
Title: Detecting Action-Items in E-mail
Speaker: Paul N. Bennett
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 - 3:00, WeH 4625
Title: Probabilistic Models of Text and Images
Speaker: David Blei
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 3:00, WeH 4625
Title: Merging Rank Lists from Multiple Sources in Video Classification
Speaker: Wei-Hao Lin
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 3:00, WeH 4625
Title: Associating Names with Persons in Broadcast News Video
Speaker: Jun Yang
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 3:00, WeH 4625
Title: Graph Mining
Speaker: Christos Faloutsos
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Wednesday, October 6, 2004 - 3:00, WeH 4625
Topic: Review of the SIGIR 2004 Best Paper, “ A Formal Study of Information Retrieval Heuristics” by Hui Fang, Tao Tao, and ChengXiang Zhai
Speaker: Kevyn Collins-Thompson
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Friday, October 1, 2004 - 1:30, NSH 4513
Title: Combining Language Modeling Approach with String-matching in Near-Duplicate Detection in E-Rulemaking
Speaker: Puck Treeratpituk
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Wednesday, September 22, 2004 - 2:30, NSH 4632
Learning to Summarize Interviews for Project Reports
Nikesh Garera
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Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 3:30, WeH 4625
Analyzing Time Series Gene Expression Data
Jason Ernst
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 2:00, WeH 4625
Learning Table Extraction from Examples
Ashwin Tengli
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 3:30, WeH 4625
Learning to Classify Email into "Speech Acts"
Vitor Carvalho
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Thursday, July 8, 2004 - 3:30, WeH 4625
Resource Selection for Domain-Specific Cross-Lingual IR
Monica Rogati
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Tuesday, January 22, 2004 - 12:00, NSH 4513
Dynamic Recommender System on User Taste Tendency Model
Soojung Lee
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Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 12:00, NSH 4513
The Robustness of Content-Based Search in Hierarchical Peer to Peer Networks
M. Elena Renda
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Thursday, October 30, 2003 - 12:00, NSH 4632
Boosting Support Vector Machines for Text Classification through Parameter-free Threshold Relaxation
Dr. James G. Shanahan
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Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 12:00, NSH 4632
Content-Based Retrieval in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks
Jie Lu
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Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 12:00, NSH 4632
The Utility of Question Analysis in an Open-Domain Question Answering System
Yifen Huang
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Thursday, August 28, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 4632
Searching Peer-to-Peer Networks
Dr. Bin Yu
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Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Flexible Mixture Model for Collaborative Filtering
Luo Si

Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization
Jian Zhang
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Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Improving Text Classifier Probability Estimates
Paul Bennett
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Thursday, June 5, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3002
Radio Station Playlist Generation
Andrew P. Widdowson
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Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Discussion on Secondary Structure Prediction for Protein Sequences
Yan Liu
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Thursday, May 8, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Negative Pseudo Relevance Feedback for Multimedia Retrieval
Rong Yan
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Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Web Image Retrieval Re-Ranking with Relevance Model
Wei-Hao Lin
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Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Clustering Genes
Fan Li
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Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Exploration and Exploitation in Adaptive Filtering Based on Bayesian Active Learning
Yi Zhang
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Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Beyond Independent Topical Relevance: Evaluation Metrics and Methods for Aspect Retrieval
Dr. William Cohen
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Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 3:30, NSH 3001
Overview of Database Selection Methods
Luo Si
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Tuesday, January 14, 2003 - 11:00-12:30, Wean 4632
Topics and Techniques in (Structured) Document Retrieval
Paul Ogilvie
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