CS 395: Essay Topics
Spring 2010
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, May 4, at
4.00pm
General Guidelines
You can choose an essay topic in one of the following directions.
- Design/improvement of a specific information retrieval algorithm
This would involve the selection and/or generation of test data for
performance evaluation.
- Comparison/integration of existing information retrieval techniques
Analyze the differences between the different techniques, and provide
ideas for their integration.
- A case study of a web information exploration application
This would involve problem analysis, data cleaning, selection of the
right technique and software, conducting information retrieval and
reporting the results.
You can start with the paper(s) for class presentation as a possible
topic.
Examples of Topics
Please refer to the writing
guidelines for information about research writing in knowledge and
data engineering.
- Intelligent Informatics
- Active information fusion
- Web information diffusion
- Adaptive interest modeling and monitoring
- User identification on the Web
Please e-mail queries and comments to xwu@cs.uvm.edu.