Presentation Schedule

Each speaker must send me a short resume, including with slides of your talk, via email on Monday morning.
Other students should prepare at least one interesting question about the subject presented by the speaker(s) at that day.

Taewa and Pawat will first give a brief talk about IR evaluation (i.e., What is Recall and Precision? From where does RP curve come?) for 25 minutes. Note that it will be very advantageous for our class if my old IR students, Sethalat and Wassara propose to give a brief talk about some IR core subject! :_)
Our first volunteer, Kingkarn proposes to give a talk about "AT&T at TREC-6 and related paper in SIGIR'95", written by A. Singhal, expected to discuss about pivot-length normalization.
The second lucky student is Woravit who will prepare a talk for "Optimization of Relevance Feedback Weights", written by C. Buckley. I expect to see some tranparents explaining the conventional feedback ideas proposed by Ide and Rocchiro in early 70s. You can contact Pawat for a copy of feedback papers.

December 9, 1998:

Arj. Chuleerat from Computer Science Department, Kasetsart University, will kindly give us an hour talk about "Thai Text Retrieval". Thank you so much for her contribution to our class. You should prepare your questions!
Group 01 wlll present the full description of the SMART system, including with the promising mini-project proposal.
Group 02 will present the full description of the ZPRISE system, including with the promising mini-project proposal.

Group 03 wlll present the full description of the DSIR system, including with the promising mini-project proposal.
Group 04 will present the full description of the MG system, including with the promising mini-project proposal.

Arj. Assadaporn from Statistical Department, Chulalongkorn University, will kindly give us an hour talk about "User Interface with IR System". Thank a lot for her kindness. All students should prepare some interesting questions!
Chayawat will talk about "MDS TREC6 Report" written by M. Fuller and RMIT's researchers. I expect to see how they combine several retrieval results written in their TREC5 report during this talk, as well.

January 15, 1999:

Wasara will talk about "Fusion Via Linear Combination for the Routing Problem" and its realted paper in TREC5, written by C. Vogt. An introduction about routing task is expected to provided, following with fusion technique of several IR experts which is the core concept of these papers.
Mongkol will prepare a talk about "Context Base Statistical Sub-spaces" and related paper in TREC5, written by G. Newby.
Arnon (not me :_)) will end this day with his talk about "Automatic 3-Languages Cross-Language Information Retrieval with LSI", written by B. Rehder. An introduction to CLIR and a full detail of LSI retrieval model are expected.
Pawat will open our AI week with his talk about "TREC4 Adhoc, Routing Retrieval and Filtering Experiments Using PIRCS", written by K. Kwok. PRICS is a neural network based IR system. So, a full bibliographical survey of PRICS system in TREC1, TREC2, ..., is expected.

Sornnarin will finish this AI week with "Natural Language Information Retrieval" papers of T. Strzalkowski. NLP maniacs from other class can join our discussion if you would like to. :_)
Sethalat will open this parallel IR week with his talk under the subject of "Parallel Technique for Efficient Searching over Very Large Text Collection", written by B. Mamalis, and its related paper in SIGIR'95.
Tawa will follow by "Dissemination of Collection Wide Information in a Distributed IR System", written by C. Viles, and its related papers.

Apiseth will present " Using Query zoning and correlation within SMART ,TREC 5+ Using Clustering and Super Concept within SMART , TREC 6", written by Chris Buckley .
Toungporn will begin the IR system week with "INQUERY Does Battle with TREC6", written by J. Allan. A full description of INQUERY system in related papers is expected to present, following with the techniques described in their TREC6 paper.
Tossaporn will give a talk about "Okapi at TREC-6 Automatic ad hoc, VLC, routing, filtering and QSDR", written by S. Walker. A full description of Okapi system in related papers is expected to discuss, following with the techniques described in their TREC6 paper.

Wittayakorn will talk about "ANU/ACSys TREC-5 Experiments", written by D. Hawking, P. Thistlewaite, P. Bailey (Australian National University) .
Apisit will give us a talk about "Siemens TREC4 Report: Further Experiments with Database Merging" of E. Voorhees, and its realted papers in TREC3 and SIGIR'95. Full description about database merging technique is expected.
Prakon will continue with "A Case-Based Approach to Intelligent Information Retrieval", written by J. Daniels, and its related CBIR papers from Umass server.

Mini-project due, each group present his mini-project with system demonstration, and a mini-project report, should be not less than 25 pages, 11-points TIME font.