SUGGESTED TOPICS NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER:

Topics already chosen are colored blue. Last updated 10/20/02

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/Cookies – Ravi Pal Panandiker

Citation Indexing – Nitish Mathew

Recommender systems – Drew Culbert

Question and answering – Sean Frantti

Peer-to-Peer Search – Matthew Stone

Intelligent agents for web search

Topic-based information retrieval

Search engine relevance

Natural language processing and IR

Personal digital libraries

Metadata and Use

How to build a better Google

Web graph analysis

Scientific literature digital libraries

Open archives initiative

Search source selection

Evaluation of IR performance

Relevance judgments

Distributed IR

Formal models of IR