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 2009

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 2009. Italicised entries are seminars or other out-of-band events which might interest an information retrieval, data mining, or document computing crowd.

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
Monday 7 December
TBA

We also met in 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.