CS798: Advanced Topics
Information Retrieval
Fall 2007
Instructor:
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Charlie Clarke
School of Computer Science
DC2597D
(519) 888-4567 x32184
claclark@plg.uwaterloo.ca
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~claclark
Classes are held on Mondays, 2:00-5:00 in MC2036.
Grading
- Exercises from the text (10%) - due October 22
- A review paper based on a topic area
selected by the student with the agreement of the instructor (30%)
- due December 17
- 20-minute in-class presentation (20%)
- Class Project (40%)
Classes
- September 10:
- September 17:
- Read: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Section 3.1
- An introduction to Wumpus.
- September 24:
- October 1:
- October 8:
- No Class. Happy Thanksgiving!
- October 15:
- October 22:
- October 29:
- I'll be talking about Web Search, including the classic papers on pagerank and Google:
- Update on the Class Project.
- Student Presentations:
- LSA: Adam Fourney
- Web Data Mining: Alexandra Laflamme-Sanders, Oct 29
- HITS and SALSA: Mahmoud Fouz, Oct 29
- November 5: No class due to CIKM 2007, TREC, etc.
- November 12:
- Update on the Class Project.
- Student Presentations:
- The Google File System: Andrew Kane
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Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung.
The Google File
System.
In 19th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles,
Lake George, NY, October, 2003.
- Information Extraction: Luiz Gomes
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Ralph Grishman.
Information Extraction: Techniques and Challenges.
In International Summer School on Information Extraction: A
Multidisciplinary Approach To An Emerging Information Technology
Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 1299,
Springer-Verlag, pp. 10-27, 1997.
- Semantic Search: Xin Liu
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Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandecic, Max Völkel, Heiko Haller, and
Rudi Studer.
Semantic Wikipedia.
Journal of Web Semantics,5(4), December 2007.
R. Guha, Rob McCool and Eric Miller.
- Visualizing Results: Richard Fung
- Probabilistic LSA: John Whissel
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Thomas Hofmann.
Probabilistic
Latent Semantic Indexing.
In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual international ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Berkeley, August, 1999.
- Implicit User Feedback: Hao Zhang
- November 19:
- Update on the Class Project.
- Student Presentations:
- Advertising: Mosharaf K Chowdhury
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Andrei Broder, Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski and Lance Riedel.
A Semantic
Approach to Contextual Advertising.
In Proceedings of the 30th Annual international ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Amsterdam, July 2007.
- Parallel Search Engines: Patrick Kling
- Chinese IR: Ye Hu
- Web Crawlers: Patrick Nicholson
- Content Oriented Image Retrieval: Taehyun Park
- Impact Ordering : Kan Yang
- November 26:
- Update on the Class Project.
- Student Presentations:
- Graded Relevance Assessment: Qi Zhang, Nov 26
- Stemming and Stopwords for English: Gerald Leung, Nov 26
- Speech Retrieval: Jack Wang, Nov 26
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Jonathan Mamou, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, and Olivier Siohan.
Vocabulary
Independent Spoken Term Detection.
In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR
Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,
Amsterdam, July 2007.
- Image Annotation: Kate Kinnear, Nov 26
- Personal Information Stores: Jaime Ruiz, Nov 26
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Vannevar Bush.
As We May
Think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108,
July 1945.
- Intrusion Detection: Tung Tran, Nov 26
- December 3:
- Final results for the Class Project.
- Student Presentations (the last three will be presented after 4:30):
- Learning to Rank: Gus Gutoski
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C. J. C. Burges, T. Shaked, E. Renshaw, A. Lazier, M. Deeds,
N. Hamilton and G. Hullender.
Learning to Rank using Gradient Descent.
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine
Learning, pp. 89-96, Bonn, Germany, 2005.
- Music IR: Herman Lee
- Web Spam: Bill Rosgen
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Gynogyi and Garcia-Molina.
Web
Spam Taxonomy.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb), 2005.
- The Wikipedia: Jakub Gawryjolek
- Cross-Linugal IR: Chen Chen
- Personal IR: Amod Gupta
- Rank Aggregation: Anusha Mallampalli
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Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor and D. Siva Kumar.
Rank Aggregation Methods for the Web.
In Proceedings of the 10th World Wide Web conference, 2001.
- Geographic Information Systems: Adam Bains
Course resources
Updated: December 2, 2007