| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Presenter |
Room |
| 02/13 |
ANOVA Analysis for IR Systems |
Nicola Ferro and Gianmaria Silvello: A General Linear Mixed Models Approachto Study System Component Effects |
Joe Barrow and Petra Galuscakova |
IRB 4137 |
| 02/20 |
Axiomatic Analysis |
Enrique Amigo, Damiano Spina and Jorge Carrillo-De-Albornoz: An Axiomatic Analysis of Diversity Evaluation Metrics: Introducing the Rank-Biased Utility Metric |
Mahmoud F. Sayed |
IRB 4137 |
| 02/27 |
Learning to rank |
Keita Kurita: Learning to Rank Explained (with Code) |
Shing Han-Chin |
IRB 4137 |
| 03/05 |
How to read IR papers? |
Norbert Fuhr: Some Common Mistakes In IR Evaluation, And How They Can Be Avoided |
Doug Oard |
IRB 4137 |
| 03/12 |
Translation resources for CLIR |
Hamed Bonab, James Allan, and Ramesh Sitaraman: Simulating CLIR Translation Resource Scarcity using High-resource Languages |
Suraj Nair |
IRB 4137 |
| 03/19 |
Spring break |
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| 03/26 |
Parameter optimization |
Alberto Costa, Emanuele Di Buccio, Massimo Melucci and Giacomo Nannicini: Efficient Parameter Estimation for Information Retrieval Using Black-Box Optimization |
Petra Galuscakova |
Online at Zoom |
| 04/02 |
Fairness |
James McInerne, James McInerney, Hugues Bouchard, Mounia Lalmas, Fernando Diaz: Towards a Fair Marketplace: Counterfactual Evaluation of the trade-off between Relevance, Fairness & Satisfaction in Recommendation Systems |
Mahmoud F. Sayed |
Online at Zoom |
| 04/09 |
Language Models |
Adam Berger and John Lafferty: Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation |
Jake Bremerman |
Online at Zoom |
| 04/16 |
BERT Embeddings |
Zhuolin Jiang, Amro Jaroudi, William Hartmann, Damianos Karakos and Lingjun Zhao: Cross-lingual Information Retrieval with BERT |
Suraj Nair |
Online at Zoom |
| 04/23 |
Cutoffs |
Yen-chieh Lien, Daniel Cohen, W. Bruce Croft: An Assumption-Free Approach to the Dynamic Truncation of Ranked Lists |
Petra Galuscakova |
Online at Zoom |
| 04/30 |
Future directions in IR |
J.Shane Culpepper, Fernando Diaz, and Mark D. Smucker: Report from the Third Strategic Workshopon Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2018) |
Doug Oard |
Online at Zoom |
| 05/07 |
Improvements in retrieval |
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Webber and Justin Zobel: Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998 |
Doug Oard |
Online at Zoom |
