Seminars

June 27, 2013
"Lifelogging, a new challenge for IR", by Dr. Cathal Gurrin from the School of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland

June 24, 2013
"Semantic Concept Extraction from Electronic Medical Records for Enhancing Retrieval Performance", by Dawid Kasperowicz for his Master degree defense, York University, Canada

March 25, 2013
"Search Beyond Traditional Probabilistic Information Retrieval", by Vivian Hu for her Ph.D. defense, York University, Canada

Aug 31, 2012
"Query Transformation for Improving Query Document Matching in Patent Retrieval", by Parvaz Mahdabi from University of Lugano, Switzerland

Aug 9, 2012
"Proximity-based Rocchio's Model for Pseudo Relevance Feedback", by James Miao for his Rehearsal at ACM SIGIR presentation.

July 16, 2012
"Secure Computation on Encrypted Database and Secure Database for Cloud", by Prof. David Cheung from University of Hong Kong.

July 12, 2012
"Social Media & IR Applications", by Prof. Joemon Jose from University of Glasgow, UK.

June 12, 2012
"A Learning Approach for Expert Search", by Prof. Luo Si from Purdue University, USA.

June 1, 2012
"Proximity-based Rocchio's Model for Pseudo Relevance Feedback", by James Miao

May 18, 2012
"A Hybrid Model for Adhoc Information Retrieval", by Jeff Ye

May 11, 2012
"Rewarding Term Location Information to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval", by Jessie Zhao

April 27, 2012
"Modeling in Public Health with Implications to Policy Making: Two Case Studies", by Prof. Jiming Liu, Hong Kong.

April 20, 2012
"Query Expansion Using Multiple External Resources and Domain Knowledge for Medical Information Retrieval", by Atanaz Babashzadeh

April 12, 2012
"Semantic Matching Models for Medical Information Retrieval: A Case Study", by Dawid Kasperowicz.

September 30, 2011
"Using Textual and Structural Context for Multimedia Retrieval", by Dr. Mouna Torjmen.

September 7, 2011
"Comparative Study of Taxonomy Visualizations with Gephi and Memory Islands", by Soroosh Nalchigar, France.

September 2, 2011
"Three Kinds of Web Data that Can Help Computers Make Better Sense of Human Language", by Dr. Shane Bergsma, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

August 5, 2011
"Query Expansion and Semantic Matching at Medical TREC 2011", by James Miao, Dawid Kasperowicz and Mariam Daoud

July 14, 2011
"Enhancing Ad-hoc Relevance Weighting Using Probability Density Estimation", by Xiafong Zhou

July 8, 2011
PartI: "Discussion about Medical Track 2011" by Jun Miao
PartII: "CRTER: Using Cross Terms to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval" by Jessie Zhao and Jimmy Huang.

June 29, 2011
SIGIR papers, by Jessie Zhao and Xiafong.

Apr 1, 2011
"Medical Records TREC 2011", by Mariam Daoud

Mar 11, 2011
"Proximity-based Rocchio's Model for Pseudo Relevance Feedback", by James Miao

Jan 14, 2011
"Modeling Term Association for Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval Performance", by Vivian Hu

Jan 7, 2011
"Using Cross Terms to Enhance Probabilistic Information Retrieval", by Jessie Zhao

Dec 10, 2010
"Adding up performance gains from state-of-the-arts: A hybrid method for IR", by Zheng Ye.

Dec 3, 2010
"On exploiting the temporal query preferences for improving temporal IR approaches", by Mariam Daoud

Nov 25, 2010
"Statistical Modeling and Its Application to Information Retrieval", by Xiaofeng Zhou

Feb 26, 2010
"Robust Algorithms for Information Retrieval: Effective Tradeoffs between Rick and Reward", by Dr. Kevyn Collins-Thompson from Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA.

April 17, 2009
"Real-World User Evaluations of a Visual and Interactive Web Search Interface", by Prof. Orland Hoeber from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

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