IRKMSeminar

summer 2009 (E2-475, 12pm-2pm Tuesday, Pizza)

Note to presentor: please email irkm-lab mailing list the papers you will discuss by Saturday. Please upload your presentation slides here. Here is a guidance for reading other's paper

• Machine Learning Summer Day  (9am-5pm, Thursday)
  
  • Predictive methods for Text mining (Xing, August 13)
  • Network models (Jian, August 13) Note
  • Graphical models 1; Graphical Models and Variational Methods (yize, August 20)
    
  • Bayesian Learning (sarah? August 20)
    
  • Practical Statistical Relational Learning (Jessica, Sept 3 Location: E2 215)
  • Deep learning
    
  • Convex Optimization (optimization tools) (jiazhong, Sept 3 Location: E2 215) stochastic optimization
  • Independent Component Analysis (min, Sept 10 Location: E2 215) Factor analysis models
  • Sparse linear models (http://agbs.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/wikis/icmltutorial/FrontPage) (Lanbo, Sept 10 Location: E2 215)
  • Stanford Machine Learning Course videos
• SIGIR 2009 Review (UCSC SVC NASA, Shawn Wolf + others, August 3rd Monday)
• Link based retrieval; Retrieval in the context of the semantic web and linked data (Jessica Gronski, August 11)
• Social network information retrieval (Sarah? August 25)
• Retrieval for old IR research on using external resources for search (Sept 3, Jessica Gronski)
• Practise talk for TIM symposiumn (Sept 24, all graduate students)
• Practise talk for Sarah (ACM RecSys paper) and Jessica (Semantic Web 09 paper)
• Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users (Lanbo Oct.)
• NIPS 2010 Review (Jiazhong)
• Experimental evaluation of information retrieval systems in community-wide evaluation forums such as TREC, CLEF, NTCIR, INEX, TAC, and other annual research evaluations (???)

Past Topics to review in winter/spring 2009 (E2-475, 12pm-1pm, Pizza)

• Jan. 29, Matrix facotrization, probabilistic latent models (Yize Li, Lanbo Zhang)
• Feb. 5, Transfer learning, multi-task learning(Jiazhong Nie)
• Feb. 12, Personalized Information Retrieval (Shihn-Yuarn Chen)
• Feb. 19, Recent advance in recommender systems (Sarah)
• Feb. 26 Database seminar: Personalization: One "ring" does not rule them all Georgia Koutrika from Stanford (Thursday, 12:00-1:00 pm, at E2 398.)(http://www.stanford.edu/~koutrika/index.htm)
• IR Evaluation (Ian)
• March 5, Retrieval in the context of the semantic web (Jessica Gronski)
• WWW 2009 Review (Yize, June 30)
• Active Learning, Interactive information retrieval (Lanbo, July 7)
• Recent advance in NLP for IR (text learning, beyond bag of words model, Question Answer, etc.) (Jiazhong, Jadiel?, July 14)
• Contextual informaiton retrieval (Xing Xing, July 28)