IST 497 Topic List for Readings and Presentation

 

The full presentation is 30% of your grade.

5 Minute Presentation Schedule: (5 % of your grade)

The schedule for your 5 minute presentation is below. Please come to class with a floppy of your powerpoint presentation to save time. Give a list of the papers you will present.

How to build a better Google – Adam Bak

Intelligent browsers – Cenk Ursavas

Web and focused crawling - Vladimir Belyavskiy

Query expansion - Sean McGettrick

Document similarity / plagiarism detection – Daran Becker

Web usage patterns – Ryan McFadden

Personalization of IR / user needs – Ron Grzywacz                 

Document clustering – Matt Hughes

Metasearch - Pradeep Teregowda

Web analysis/search engine comparisons – Thomie Ventura

Web storage: permanence of information - Laura Milodin

Image search and IR - Shaw-Ming Yang

Audio search and IR – Chris McCoy

Video information retrieval - Mark Ruzomberka

Privacy/CookiesRavi Panandiker Pai

Citation Indexing – Nitish Mathew

Recommender systems – Drew Culbert

Question and answering – Sean Frantti

Peer-to-Peer Search – Matthew Stone

 

Procedure: You have chosen one of the topics below to do read about and give a presentation on. Search for representative papers to read. The papers you decide to read must be approved by the instructor. You may find the ACM archive of SIGIR, the previous WWW conferences and CiteSeer of use.

Presentation: Your final presentation will be of professional quality in powerpoint and is 25% of your grade. It should introduce the topic (5), discuss the issues (5), why the topic is important (5), what has been done and how (10), what to do next (5). It must be a critique of the area. Your presentation should be for approximately 20 minutes (20 minutes usually means about 20 slides). Some sample presentations though some are for longer than 20 minutes can be found at a previous course web site. If you have questions, please talk to the instructor. Your presentation time will be randomly assigned. It you have problems with the schedule, please contact another student with whom you would like to switch. Presentations cannot be postponed or cancelled. This is similar to presentations at a conference or business meeting. The show must go on; arrange for someone else to give it. A powerpointt copy of your presentation must be emailed to the instructor before your presentation date.

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