Students who want to do an independent study or IR Lab with me can either i) propose their own topic, or ii) choose a topic from the list below.
LTI Site Search: We recently deployed an LTI Site Search capability, using Lemur. It's a good start, but it could be improved in many ways. If you are interested in working on improved ranking algorithms, query processing, improved crawling algorithms, search user interfaces, search log analysis, or other aspects of local Web search, this might be an interesting project for you.