COMPSCI 791U is a seminar in which students will read, present, and discuss research papers on recent and advanced topics in Information Retrieval. Students are expected to lead one or more discussions throughout the semester. This seminar covers recent research in Information Retrieval including neural IR, explainability and interpretability, conversational search, product and multimedia recommendation, and other research that is published within the past few years.

Course Information

Prerequisites

Contact the instructor if you are uncertain whether you have the necessary background.

Coursework


Syllabus

Date Description Paper Titles Slides
Feb. 4 Neural IR
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Feb. 11 Neural IR [Slides]
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Feb. 18 Monday schedule
Feb. 26 Neural IR [Slides]
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March 3 [Slides]

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March 10 Conversational Q/A [Slides]
March 17 Spring break
March 24 [Slides]
March 31 [Slides]
April 7 [Slides]
April 14 [Slides]
April 21 [Slides]
April 28 Music recommendation [Slides]
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