IR (and friends) in 108 (and nearby)

This is a discussion group for people working in information retrieval, data mining, document computing, and similar fields in the ANU departments of Computer Science and Engineering, the ANU Computer Sciences Laboratory, the CSIRO ICT Centre, and NICTA. Others are of course welcome too.

This is not a seminar series! The goal is to encourage discussion between people working in similar fields; to provide a venue for feedback on work in progress; and to get people from different groups talking to each other. Please be prepared for conversation.

Speakers in 2010

We meet every second Monday, from 4-5pm, in the CSIRO seminar room in the CS&IT building. CSIRO are kind enough to provide wine (and soft drinks) and cheese.

This is a list of all past and planned talks in 2010. Italicised entries are seminars or other out-of-band events which might interest an information retrieval, data mining, or document computing crowd.

Monday 18 January
Paul Thomas (CSIRO): component-level evaluation with best possible performance
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Mondays 1 and 15 February
No meeting
Monday 1 March
Tim' Jones (ANU): the great market day experiment
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Thursday 4 March
Paul Thomas (CSIRO and ANU): information retrieval for real-world tasks
N101, 4-5
Monday 15 March
Rob Ackland (RSSS, ANU): analysing social networks with NodeXL and voson
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 29 March
Shengbo Guo (NICTA): probabilistic latent maximal marginal relevance (abstract)
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 12 April
Tim Jones (ANU): a different approach to user experiments
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 19 April
Doug Oard (Maryland): Who `dat?: Identity resolution in large email collections (abstract)
N101, 2-3
Monday 26 April
No meeting (ANZAC day holiday)
Monday 10 May
Xuan Zhou (CSIRO): web service retrieval: are pre- and post-conditions different?
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 24 May
Tom Rowlands (CSIRO and ANU): match report from WWW
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 7 June
Wray Buntine (NICTA): discriminative IR (abstract)
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 21 June
Paul Thomas (CSIRO and ANU): interfaces for government metasearch
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Thursday 1 July (note different day)
Glen Newton (Carleton University): Visualizing a large journal collection using semantic indexing for use in search query refinement (abstract)
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 5 July
Andrew Gall (ANU and CSIRO): visualising social media
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Tuesday 13 July
Sam Huston (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Evaluating Verbose Query Processing Techniques
N101, 4-5
Thursday 15 July
Paul Thomas (CSIRO and ANU): Interfaces for Government Metasearch
N101, 4-5
Monday 19 July
No meeting (SIGIR is on)
Monday 2 August
TBA
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 16 August
David Hawking (Funnelback): search quality tuning
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 30 August
TBA
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 13 September
TBA
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
Monday 27 September
No meeting (family and community day holiday)
Mondays 11 and 25 October, 8 and 22 November, 6 December
TBA
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5

We also met in 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.

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.