Final project

An open-ended research project in one of three categories:

• Research paper - using the SIGIR format. Students will be in charge of problem formulation, literature survey, hypothesis formulation, experimental design, implementation, and possibly submission to a conference like SIGIR or WWW.
• Software system - develop a working, useful system (including an API). Students will be responsible for identifying a niche problem, implementing it and deploying it, either on the Web or as an open-source downloadable tool.
• Survey paper - identify a topic of research in IR and summarize 15-20 recent papers on it, along with an introduction that compares and contrasts the papers involved.