Please e-mail me your team selection and the paper you wish to be assigned. As they are posted, notice that the papers are to be presented on predetermined dates, though the order in which they are presented on a given day is not necessarily reflected in the tables below. Again, you will receive your choices on a first come, first serve basis.

You can now download summary and handout documents for teams that are to be presenting in the coming weeks.

Day 1: IR Efficiency / Evaluation

Paper Team Static Index Pruning for Information Retrieval Systems. David Carmel, et. al. IBM Research Laboratory. Summary/Handout 1/Handout 2 #6: Yueh-Chiung Hsu Hsiu-Che Shih The Effectiveness of Query Expansion for Distributed Information Retrieval. Paul Ogilvie, Jamie Callan. Carnegie Melon University. Summary/Handout #10: Vasif Shaikh Hitenkumar Sonani Mohammed Khan Approaches to Collection Selection and Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval. Y. Rasolofo, F. Abbaci, J. Savoy. Summary/Handout #11: Douglas Lautner Aaron Eagerman Dalius Tarvydas Text Classification in a Hierarchical Mixture Model for Small Training Sets. K. Toutanova, F. Chen, K. Popat, T. Hofmann. Xerox PARC and Brown University. Summary/Handout #12: Sheetal Boddu. Blessy Mathew. Jack Lukaszuk.

Day 2: Web Search / Cross Lingual / Classification

Paper Team Improving Cross Language Information Retrieval with Triangulated Translation. Tim Gollins. University of Sheffield. Summary/Handout #1: Angelo Pilotto Victor Glava Ramakrishna Pamidimukkala Evaluating Topic-Driven Web Crawlers. F. Menczer, G. Pant, P. Srinivasan. School of Library and Information Science. Summary/Handout #2: Praveen Palwai Goutham Dodla Srinivas Banda Using LSI for Text Classification in the Presence of Background Text. Sarah Zelikovitz and Haym Hirsh. Rutgers University Summary/Handout #9: Vishad Patel Bhavin Mehta Dhaval Patel Building a Distributed Full-Text Index for the Web. S. Melnik, S. Raghavan, B. Yang, H. Garcia-Molina. Stanford University. Summary/Handout #8: Ateeq Ahmad Rahul Saxena Ankit Jain Vikram Mallikarjuna

Day 3: Question Answering / Metasearch / Clustering

Paper Team Modeling Score Distributions for Combining the Ouputs of Search Engines. R. Manmatha, T. Rath, and F. Feng. University of Massachusetts. Summary/Handout #3: Jingbi Tan Yibo Zhang Li Xing Exploiting Redundancy in Question Answering. Charles L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, T. R. Lynam. University of Waterloo, Canada. Summary/Handout #4: Kuljit Singh Lesley Ponneri Pradeep Nayar Phebu George Co-clustering documents and words using Bipartite Spectral Graph Partitioning. Inderjit S. Dhillon. University of Texas. Summary/Handout #5: Arjun Shankar Asif Riaz Chirag Shah Towards a Highly-Scalable and Effective Metasearch Engine. Z. Wu, W. Meng, C. Yu, Z. Li. Summary/Handout #7: Suganya Ravikumar Jitendra K Bethina Mira Chokshi Vijayaram Bethina