Past WIFL Seminars

March 19, 2010
Jacek Wolkowicz
Hadoop Streaming for Simple Computing with Extra Large Datasets

March 12, 2010
Anatoliy Gruzd
Ambient Searching of Digital Libraries in the Context of Academic Writing

March 5, 2010
Jamie Blustein and Ann-Barbara Graff
Reading in the Margins

February 19, 2010
Naureen Nizam
Website Navigation: Utilizing Web Analytics to generate dynamic menus

January 29, 2010
Anwar Alhenshiri
Investigating the Effectiveness in Searching the Web for information Gathering

November 27, 2009
Sathi Marath
Large-Scale Web Page Classification

November 20, 2009
Marek Lipczak
Flow-based Clustering for Community Detection in Social Networks

November 13, 2009
Hesham Allam
An Integrated Model of Online Information Retrieval Behaviour

November 6, 2009
Anatoliy Gruzd
Making Sense of OnLine Communities

October 30, 2009
Kathryn Duffy
Clustering Massively Large Protein Sequence Data Sets

October 23, 2009
Umar Qasim
Active Caching for Recommender Systems

October 16, 2009
Anwar Alhenshiri
Augmenting the Perception of Web Search Results Using Document Fast Features and Visualization

October 9, 2009
Jane Mason
Classifying Web Pages by Genre: An n-gram Based Approach

June 12, 2009
Norman MacDonald
Tracking the Spread and Evolution of H1N1 Swine Flu through the Web

May 29, 2009
Anwar Alhenshiri
Augmenting the Perception of Web Search Results

May 15, 2009
Sathi Marath
Large Scale Web Page Classification

May 1, 2009
Mark Elmore, Oakridge National Research Labs
Knowledge Discovery for Rapid Response (KD4RR)

April 24, 2009
Robert Allen, Drexel University
What to do with Millions of Pages of Digitized Historical Newspapers?

April 17, 2009
Michael Bliemel, Faculty of Management
A Tehtered Information Retrieval Process using Natural Links

April 3, 2009
Michael Shepherd
Classifying Web Pages by Genre: A Distance Function Approach

March 20, 2009
Anwar Alhenshiri
Improving Results for Short Web Querie Using Preserved Query Knowledge

March 13, 2009
Biswanath Dutta
Realization of eLearning scenario in the Semantic Web arena

March 6, 2009
Hatam Nasarat
Improving Search Engines using Multi-Word Indicies
Ashraf Iqbal
Automatic Enhancement of Input Query using WordNet for Better Search

February 27, 2009
Samina Abidi
Ontology based modeling and merging of clinical pathways of comorbidities

February 13, 2009
Ching-Lung (Jackie) Fu
Validation of Differences in Users' Performance & Preferences on Text/Background Colours Used for Different Web Tasks

May 29, 2009
Jamie Blustein
Impact of spatial visualization ability on WWW navigation

May 1, 2008
“Small details”: Navigating Together with a Single Mobile Phone
Derek Reilly and Bonnie MacKay

April 17, 2008
Carolyn Watters and Bonnie MacKay
Report from SIGCHI

March 27, 2008
Bonnie BacKay
Exploring Multi-Session Web Tasks

March 13, 2008
Chris Jordan
Contextual Retrieval of Wikipedia Articles To Support Reading

March 6, 2008
Jae Morris
Competitive Intelligence Classification System: An approach using IR Classification techniques

February 21, 2008
Ching-Lung (Jackie) Fu
Background and Foreground Colors of Web Pages: Consider More Than Contrast

December 5, 2007
Marek Lipczak
Natural Search Pointers - a query formulation method for structured information search
Kate Patterson
Document Retrieval using Proximity-based Phrase Searching

November 28, 2007
Chris Jordan, Ching-lung (Jackie) Fu
Update on student research

November 21, 2007
Sathi Marath, Bonnie MacKay
Update on student research

November 7, 2007
Wendy MacCaull, StFX University
Recent Research Initiatives in Health Informatics at the StFX Centre for Logic and Computation

October 17, 2007
Michael Shepherd
An Examination of Genre Attribures for Web Page Classification

October 3, 2007
Jacek Wolkowicz
N-Gram-Based Approach to Automatic Composer Recognition

September 26, 2007
Chris Jordan
LiteraryMark: Using Wikipedia as a Knowledge Base for Reading Electronic Documents

September 19, 2007
Kate Patterson
Document Retrieval using Proximity-based Phrase Searching

May 11, 2007
Ching-Lung Fu
A Focus Group on, "Do Colors Matter?"

April 19, 2007
Rob Warren, University of Waterloo
IR-Style Retrieval using SQL for Database Integraton

March 21, 2007
Grace Paterson
Boundary Infostructures for Chronic Disease

March 21, 2007
Melanie Kellar
An Examination of User Behaviour during Web Information Tasks

February 14, 2007
Dr. Raza Abidi
Ontology-Driven Reasoning for Decision Support

January 31, 2007
Dr. Barbara Kwasnik, Syracuse University
How can document-genre metadata improve information-access for large digital collections? An update

January 24, 2007
Michael Shepherd
An Introduction to Text Mining

January 10, 2007
Michael Shepherd and Carolyn Watters
Emerging Research Themes from the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

November 10, 2005
Sarabdeep Singh
An Adaptive User Interest Hierarchy for Filtering News

October 27, 2005
Michael Shepherd
Linking Tacit Knowledge in the Pediatric Pain e-Mail Archives and Explicit Knowledge in PubMed

October 13, 2005
Lei Dong
Web Genre Categorization

October 6, 2005
Richong Zhang
Web Page Filtering Based on Task

September 22, 2005
Sathi Marath
Web Page Classification for Inflammatory Bowels Disease using Case Based Reasoning

September 15, 2005
Lei Dong
An Overview of Web Genre

July 28, 2005
Speaker: Greg Zaverucha
Title: A new measure for evaluating search results based on expected search length for answer completion
Speaker: Helen (Ling) Ou
Title: A comparison of unigram vs bigram model for IR

July 21, 2005
Lei Dong
A comparison of two one-handed input methods on small devices

April 15, 2005
Workshop on E-News

April 14, 2005
Bin Tang
Compare and Combine Dimension Reduction Techniques for text clustering

March 24, 2005
Bonnie MacKay, Melanie Kellar & Carolyn Watters
Presenter: Bonnie MacKay
An Evaluation of Landmarks for Re-finding Information on the Web

March 24, 2005
Kirstie Hawkey and Kori Inkpen
Presenter: Kirstie Hawkey
Privacy Gradients: Exploring Ways to Manage Incidental Information During

March 24, 2005
Presenter: Dave Dearman
Effect of Location-Awareness on Rendezvous Behaviour

March 17, 2005
Hadi Kharrazi
Developing, integrating and testing of an automated telephony natural speech interface as a Virtual Coach

March 3, 2005
Lei Dong and Rui Zhang
Viewing Tables on PDAs

February 17, 2005
Jack Duffy
Q and A: What do you want to know about statistics?

February 10, 2005
Melanie Kellar
A Workshop on Task Differentiation on the Web

February 3, 2005
Lei Dong
Two input methods for map navigation on small devices

January 27, 2005
Dr. Sander Van Zanten, Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
Evaluating Crohns and colitis websites in gastroenterology"

January 20, 2005
Saeed Hashemi
A Linear Wrapper Method for Detection of Atypical Points in Classification

December 10, 2004
Raza Abidi
AdVISE framework for information personalization using AI methods

November 26, 2004
Kirstie Hawkey - report on the CSCW Conference
Lei Dong - report on the Web Intelligence Conference

November 5, 2004
Michael Shepherd and Arnold Mitnitski
Report on AMIA Conference
Bonnie MacKay and Derek Reilly
Report on HCI and Mobile Computing Conferences

October 8, 2004
Melanie Kellar
Presenting: Koltringer, T & Grechenig, T. (2004). Comparing the Immediate Usability of Graffiti 2 and Virtual Keyboards. In Proceedings of CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria. 1175-1178.
Derek Reilly will present a tool he has been developing.

September 24, 2004
Michael Shepherd
Automatic Detection of Home Pages on the Web

August 11, 2004
Professor Fabio Vitali
Department of Computer Science
University of Bologna, Italy
Adding co-constraints to XML Schema with SchemaPath

June 17, 2004
Prof. Haidar Moukdad
School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University
Cross-language Web search engines: a look at Morfix

Thursday, April 15, GINI demo Room 3-5pm.
Gary Latham, Univ of Toronto. Motivation and Multidisciplinary Research

Friday, April 16, 2004
The SIGCHI Student Competition Team will preview their formal presentation
Using Patterns to Rank Participants

March 26, 2004
Marc Richard and Ingrid Sketris
20,000 drugs in the palm of your hand: Pharmacists' use of PDAs

March 19, 2004
Henry Stern
A Linguistics-Based Attack on Personalised Statistical e-Mail Classifiers

March 12, 2004
Grace Paterson
Semantic Interoperability for Decision Support Using Case Formalism and Controlled Vocabulary

March 5, 2004
CHI Student Competition Team
Using Patterns to Rank Participants

February 13, 2004
Melanie Kellar
The Effect of Task on Time Spent Reading as an Implicit Measure of Interest

January 30, 2004
Jagrat Mankad
Extracting Meaningful Metadata from Medical Journals

November 27, 2003
CHI Student Team
Using Patterns to Rank Participants

November 13, 2003
Chris Rafuse
Information Retrieval for Structured Objects

November 6, 2003
Michael Shepherd
Interoperability for Digital Libraries

October 30, 2003
Bonnie MacKay
Web Page Display on Small Screens

October 9, 2003
Derek Reilley
Map Morphing : Making Sense of Incongruent Maps

September 18, 2003
Melanie Kellar
Task & Implicit Interest

June 6, 2003
Symposium on Intelligent Interfaces and Machine Learning This is an informal symposium of researchers from Acadia and Dalhousie interested in discussing initiatives on Intelligent Interfaces and Machine Learning areas. Talks will be very short and are intended to spark discussion. Everyone is welcome to attend for some or all of the sessions.
Schedule of Talks

May 8, 2003
Mona Noor
Online Glossary Tools for Technical Reading

May 2, 2003
Isabel Redondo
Motivational Interface design: a multi-theory approach

March 28, 2003
Bonnie Mackay
The gateway: a navigation technique for migrating to small screens

March 21, 2003
Andrei Broder
IBM Research
Practical Challenges in the Study of the Web-Graph

March 7, 2003
Melanie Kellar
Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Math Lesson Plans

February 28, 2003
Henry Stern and Melanie Kellar
The Canarie Project: E-Learning

January 17, 2003
Andrew Grant
Universite de Sherbrooke
Knowledge Association and Concept Maps

November 29, 2002
Ray Klein
Dept of Psychology
Static and Dynamic Properties of the Spatial Environment that Affect the Speed and Accuracy of Spatial Responding

November 8, 2002
Danny Silver
User Modeling, Identification and Adaptive Interfaces

November 1, 2002
Vlado Keselj
Shallow semantic NL processing using stochastic unification-based grammars

October 4, 2002
Melanie Kellar
Architecture to Support Dynamic Composition of Math Lesson Plans

Bonnie MacKay
Navigational Features for Small Screen Devices

July 18, 2002
Kirstie Hawkey
An architecture in support of universal usability

July 11, 2002
Atreya Basu
Effects of pre-filtering on Text Categorization

July 4, 2002
Bin Tang
Automatic Construction of Digital Library Using SOM Based Neural Network Approach

June 6, 2002
Yannick Marchand
From Hypertext to Expertext for the Exploitation of Technical Documents

May 30, 2002
Carolyn Watters
But I'm on my PDA: Cross Platform Collaboration

May 23, 2002
Rui Zhang
Transformation of Forms from PC to PDA

November 29, 2001
Evangelos Milios
Similarity and Structure in Networked Information Spaces

November 22, 2001
Bin Tang
Input Partitioning to Mixture of Experts

November 15, 2001
Carolyn Watters
Brewster and the Internet Archive: Show and Tell

November 1, 2001
Sunny Marche
Thinking Critically

October 25, 2001
Thomas Trappenberg
Divide and conquer: Some thoughts on modular design

October 9, 2001
Kathryn Duffy
Virtual Interface Projection & Remote Event Management in Windows

October 2, 2001
Brian Bradley
Effective Organization of Web Sites

July 9, 2001.
Wanhong Zheng
Classification and Categorization of Electronic Medical news Using MeSH


March 16, 2001
Computer Interpretation of Eukaryotic DNA Sequences
Youlian Pan

March 9, 2001
Health Informatics: A Practitioner's Perspective
Leif Sigurdson, Plastic Surgeon
Penny Logan, Medical Society Librarian
David Zitner, Medical informatics
Grace Paterson, Medical informatics

February 9, 2001
Classification and Representation of On-line Medical News
Wanhong Zheng

February 1, 2001
Email Everywhere
Mohammad Farooq M. Tareen

January 26, 2001
Intrinsic Motivation on the Web
Isabel Redondo

January 19, 2001
Results of user study on looking for information in tables on small devices
Drs. Duffy and Watters

January 12, 2001
Ethics Reviews For Research on Human Subjects
Pat Lindley

December 1, 2000
User study on looking for information in tables on small devices
Drs. Duffy and Watters

November 10, 2000
Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Hypertext Journal Articles
Dr. Jamie Blustein

November 3, 2000
Dongni An, "Personalizing Web searching with MetaData"
Youlian Pan, "Bioinformatics - Automated Genome Analysis"
Wanhong Zheng, "Medical Information Retrieval from On-line Newspapers"

October 27, 2000
Distributed Systems and Information Search
Dr. Zincir-Heywood

October 13, 2000
Student Presentations: Alan Peng, Ying Huang, Xiaoli Wang, Yonglei Guo

October 6, 2000
Content Filtering on the Web
Dr. Shepherd

September 22, 2000
Label Bureaus for E-Commerce
Anil Dhonde

June 2000
An Incremental CBR System for Medical Diagnosis.
Saeed Hashemi

June 8, 2000
CyberGenre, Filtering and Portals
Dr. Shepherd

June 2, 9, 16, 2000
Experimental Design
Dr. Duffy