IR (and friends) in 108 (and nearby)
Here's stuff we did earlier.
Speakers in 2009
- Monday 19 January
- Paul Thomas (CSIRO): Japanese food in
distributed IR
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 2 February
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO and ANU): quite the machine
translation which is simple
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 16 Feburary
- Tim' Jones (ANU): examining web spam
collections
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 2 March
- Xuan Zhou (CSIRO): from keywords to structured
query -- incremental query construction for semantic data
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 16 March
- (no meeting)
- Monday 30 March
- Peter Christen (ANU): accurate synthetic
generation of realistic personal information
Work with: Agus Pudjijono
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 13 April
- (no meeting, Easter Monday)
- Monday 27 April
- (no meeting, ANZAC day holiday)
- Monday 11 May
- David Hawking (Funnelback): indexing and
searching UK2007
and Tim Jones (ANU): match report from WWW
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Tuesday 19 May
- Peter Christen (ANU):
privacy-preserving data sharing and matching
RSISE seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 25 May
- Amir Hadad (ANU): Breast Cancer Data: How can it
be analyzed?
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 8 June
- (no meeting, Queen's birthday)
- Monday 22 June
- Andrew Lampert (CSIRO and Macquarie): email
segmentation and recognising zones of text
Ian Ross seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 6 July
- Matt Adcock (CSIRO): one or two uses for
temporal information
Ian Ross seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 20 July
- (no meeting, SIGIR is on)
- Monday 3 August
- Paul Thomas (CSIRO): match report from
SIGIR
Ian Ross seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 10 August (note special date)
- Sam Huston (UMass): detecting text reuse
Ian Ross seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 17 August
- (no meeting)
- Monday 31 August
- Sukanya Manna (ANU): sentence similarity
and document signatures
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 14 September
- Ramesh Sankaranarayana (ANU): assessing the
quality of health information on the web
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Friday 25 September
- Digital culture talk
Bernard de Broglio (Mosman Council): Dr
Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worring and love the
gov
National Library theatre, 12:30-1:30
- Monday 28 September
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO): Tweets as annotations
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 12 October
- Tim Jones (ANU): Experiment participation
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 26 October
- Peter Christen (ANU): Similarity-aware indexing
for real-time entity resolution
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 9 November
- Amir Hadad (ANU): Breast cancer survival
prediction
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 23 November
- Ying-Hsang Liu (Charles Sturt University): the
impact of MeSH terms on search effectiveness
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Speakers in 2008
- Monday 11 February
- DCS seminar: Jeff
Jonas (IBM): entity resolution
DCS seminar room, 9:30-11:30
- Monday 11 February
- Peter Bailey (CSIRO): what happens if we
change relevance judges?
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 25 February
- Markus Weimer (NICTA): collaborative filtering
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- (No meeting Canberra Day, Monday 10 March)
- Tuesday 18 March
- NICTA seminar: Raquel Mochales Palau
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): automatic detection of
argumentation
Contact jon.gray@nicta.com.au
- (No meeting Easter Monday, 24 March)
- Monday 7 April
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO and ANU): evidence
combination
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Wednesday 9 April
- CSIRO seminar: Mounia
Lalmas (Queen Mary): Information retrieval: from focused to
aggregated answers
CSIRO seminar room, 9:30-10:30
- Wednesday 9 April
- CSIRO seminar: Thomas
Roelleke (Queen Mary): Modelling retrieval models in a
probabilistic relational algebra with a new operator: the relational
Bayes
CSIRO seminar room, 2-3
- Tuesday 15 April
- NICTA seminar: Jose
Alferes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Efficiently combining
rules and ontologies
NICTA seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 21 April
- Rob McArthur: detecting synonyms using blog
data
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- (No meeting Monday 5 May)
- Thursday 15 May
- DCS seminar: Peter
Christen (ANU): Automatic training example selection for
scalable unsupervised record linkage
and Denny (ANU): Exploratory hot spot profile
analysis using interactive visual drill-down self-organizing maps
ANU seminar room (N101), 4-5
- Monday 19 May
- Sukanya Manna (ANU): term association in single
documents
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 2 June
- Tim Jones (ANU): research I'm about to do
in adversarial IR
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 16 June
- Peter Christen (ANU): match report from PAKDD and
Thoughts about synergies between IR and Data Mining
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Tuesday 24 June
- CSIRO seminar: Emily
Zhou (CSIRO): FRAS: A Symbolization-based Approach to Video
Similarity Search
- Monday 30 June
- Wray Buntine (NICTA): An informal look at
probabilistic models of IR
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- (No meeting Monday 14 July)
- Monday 28 July
- Tara McIntosh (USyd)
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Tuesday 29 July
- NICTA seminar: Dawei
Song (The Open University): Learning context-sensitive term
associations for intelligent information retrieval
RSISE Seminar Room, ground floor, building 115, cnr. North and Daley
Roads
2:30-3:30
- Monday 11 August
- Paul Thomas (CSIRO): match report from SIGIR
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Friday 22 August
- ADSRI seminar: Robert
Ackland (ANU): The visibility of government on the web: insights
from a large-scale crawl
Coombs seminar room A, 12:30-2
- Monday 25 August
- Nina Studeny (Fachhochschule Technikum Wien):
analysing XML corpora
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 8 September
- Alex Krumpholz (CSIRO): matching medical
records
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 22 September
- David Hawking (Funnelback): experiences in turning
IR theory into practice
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- (No meeting Labour Day, Monday 6 October)
- Monday 20 October
- Tim' Jones (ANU): Investigating the effect of spam
results on user experience
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- (No meeting 3 November, an almost-holiday)
- Monday 17 November
-
Tom Rowlands and Alex Krumpholz
(CSIRO and ANU): match report from HCSnet; and
Dave Hawking (Funnelback): match reports from
the IR Facility Symposium and SPIRE; and
Paul Thomas (CSIRO): match report from IIiX II
smaller CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 1 December
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO and ANU): anonymous
folksonomies for small enterprise webs
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 15 December
- Jan-Felix Schmakeit (UniSA): image labelling
with clickhroughs
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Speakers in 2007
- Monday 26 March
- Peter Bailey (CSIRO): the effect of branding on
perceptions of search quality
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 23 April
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO): sampling from query
logs
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 23 April
- DCS seminar: Peter
Bailey: secure search inside the enterprise
DCS seminar room, 4-5
- Monday 14 May
- DCS seminar: Paul
Thomas: sampling random documents from uncooperative
search engines
DCS seminar room, 4-5
- Wednesday 30 May
- DCS honours seminar: Yinghua Zheng:
privacy-preserving string comparisons
DCS seminar room, 11-11:30
- Monday 28 May
- Rob McArthur (CSIRO): finding experience
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 25 June
- Tim Jones (DCS): calculating PageRank in
O(reasonable)
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 16 July (note special date)
- Anuj Kumar and Deepak Agrawal
(CSIRO): the TREC enterprise track at CSIRO
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Tuesday 17 July
- DCS postgraduate meeting:
Tom Rowlands
(CSIRO): sampling from query logs
DCS seminar room, 4:30-5
- Monday 23 July
(cancelled)
- Rob
McArthur (CSIRO): report from the HCSnet
next-generation search workshop
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Wednesday 25 July
- DCS mid-term honours seminar:
Lan Du:
ontology-driven text mining for digitial forensics
DCS seminar room, 2:23-2:43
- Monday 3 September (Rescheduled)
- Amir Hadad (DCS): fuzzy logic in IR
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 10 September (Note special date)
- Peter Bailey,
Tom Rowlands,
David Hawking, and
Ross Wilkinson (all CSIRO):
match reports from SIGIR and MSR Beijing
and Sukanya Manna (DCS): a fuzzy relational
model to calculate the relatedness of entities
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Wednesday 19 September
- DCS seminar: Roger
Clarke: Big Brother Google?
DCS seminar room, 5-6
- Monday 24 September
- George Ferizis (CSIRO):
Using personal attributes as context
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 8 October
- CSIRO/DCS seminar: Milad
Shokouhi
(RMIT): Federated text retrieval from independent
collections
DCS seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 22 October
- Tim Jones (DCS): IR problems in music
collections
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 26 November
- Tom Rowlands (CSIRO): lightweight enterprise
tagging
and Peter Bailey (CSIRO): the TREC enterprise
track
CSIRO seminar room, 3-4
- Monday 24 December
- No meeting
Speakers in 2006
- 26 April
- Peter Christen (DCS) and Tom
Rowlands (CSIRO)
- 24 May
- James Sinclair (Engineering)
- 19 July
- Eric McCreath (DCS)
- 13 September
- Alex Krumpholz (CSIRO)
Want to present something?
If you've got some work, or an idea for some work, which you'd like
to discuss, email Paul to be
put on the list. It doesn't have to be completed work, and a short
presentation is fine; the idea is to get discussion going, not to
present eternal verities.