Information Retrieval Group

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

University of Waterloo

Past Seminars

The Effect of Expanding Relevance Judgements with Duplicates + SIGIR 2014

Jul 23, 2014

Gaurav Baruah

Design and Evaluation of Temporal Summarization Systems

May 28, 2014

Rakesh Guttikonda

Personalized Email Spam Filtering with Minimal or No User Training

Oct 8, 2010

Mona Mojdeh

Evaluating Clustering

May 28th 2009

John Whissell

Privacy Preserving Spam Filter Evaluation

May 14th, 2009

Mona Mojdeh

Do Search Users Need Focused Retrieval or is Document Retrieval Good Enough?

April 13th, 2009

Mark D. Smucker

April 15, 2009

Thomas Lynam

Index Compression is Good, Especially for Random Access

Aug 7, 2007

Stefan Büttcher

Wumpus Tutorial

Jun 20, 2007

Stefan Büttcher

Snippets: Extraction and Evaluation

May 30, 2007

Maheedhar Kolla

Reliable Information Retrieval Evaluation with Incomplete and Biased Judgements

Mar 26, 2007

Stefan Büttcher

Judging Strategies, Work and Reward, for Information Retrieval System Comparison

Mar 5, 2007

Thomas Lynam

Searching in Posting Lists: Cache-Oblivious Algorithms and Succinct Data Structures

Dec 11, 2006

Jérémy Barbay

Labeled LCA Revisited

Nov 27, 2006

Ehsan Chiniforooshan

Enterprise Search

Nov 8, 2006

Maheedhar Kolla

Index compression algorithms

Nov 1, 2006

Stefan Büttcher

Fun with KL Divergence: Result Reranking and Index Pruning

Apr 3, 2006

Stefan Büttcher

A Corpus-Based Unsupervised Keyword Extraction

Mar 27, 2006

Masoud Makrehchi

Queries for File System Search and Schema-Free XML

Jan 23, 2006

Jérémy Barbay

Security Issues in File System Search

Dec 5, 2005

Stefan Büttcher

Spam Filtering

Nov 21, 2005

Charles Clarke & Stefan Büttcher

Spam Filtering

Oct 24, 2005

Gord Cormack

Welcome to IR Group

Oct 3, 2005

Charles Clarke

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