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CS 430 Syllabus |
This preliminary syllabus can be expected to change as the course progresses.
Class Formats
Classes are divided into two formats.
- Lectures
- Each week there will be two conventional lectures in usual format. PowerPoint slides will be available on the web.
- Discussions
- Class discussions on Wednesday evenings will be around readings from the text book or other papers to be read before the class. It is essential that that everybody comes to class well prepared.
Week 1
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 8/29 | Lecture 1 | Overview of information discovery [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 2
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 9/3 | Lecture 2 | Text based information retrieval [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/4 | Discussion 1 | Inverted files [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/5 | Lecture 3 | Inverted files [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 3
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 9/10 | Lecture 4 | Vector methods [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/11 | Discussion 2 | Lexical analysis and stoplists [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/12 | Lecture 5 | Ranking [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 4
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 9/17 | Lecture 6 | Data structures for text processing [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/18 | Discussion 3 | Stemming [reading] [PowerPoint HTML] |
| Thursday 9/19 | Lecture 7 | Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness: Cranfield and TREC [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Friday 9/20 | Assignment 1 due |
Week 5
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 9/24 | Lecture 8 | Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness II [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/25 | Discussion 4 | Ranking methods [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/26 | Lecture 9 | Boolean methods [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 6
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 10/1 | Lecture 10 | Probabilistic information retrieval [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/2 | Discussion 5 | Latent semantic indexing [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/3 | Lecture 11 | Latent semantic indexing [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 7
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 10/8 | Lecture 12 | Library catalogs, MARC cataloguing, [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/9 | Discussion 6 | Dublin Core [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/10 | Lecture 13 | Dublin Core: Automatic extraction of catalog records [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 8
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 10/15 | [break] | |
| Wednesday 10/16 | Discussion 7 | User interfaces [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/17 | Lecture 14 | Usability 1 [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 9
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 10/21 | Assignment 2 due | |
| Tuesday 10/22 | Lecture 15 | Guest lecture: Carl Lagoze, Distributed
information retrieval [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/23 | Midterm examination | |
| Thursday 10/24 | Lecture 16 | Usability 2 [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 10
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 10/29 | Lecture 17 | Web crawlers [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/30 | Discussion 8 | Google [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/31 | Lecture 18 | Web search systems [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 11
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11/5 | Lecture 19 | Non-textual materials 1 [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday11/6 | Discussion 9 | Informedia [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 11/7 | Lecture 20 | Non-textual materials 2 [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 12
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 11/11 | Assignment 3 due | |
| Tuesday 11/12 | Lecture 21 | Thesaurus examples [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/13 | Discussion 10 | Thesaurus construction [reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 11/14 | Lecture 22 | Cluster analysis 1 [PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 13
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11/19 | Lecture 23 | Cluster analysis 2 and thesaurus construction [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/20 | Discussion 11 | Clustering
[reading] [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 11/21 | Lecture 24 | Guest lecture: Thorsten Joachims, Machine learning [PDF] |
Week 14
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 11/26 | Lecture 25 | Query refinement [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/27 | [break] | |
| Thursday 11/28 | [break] |
Week 15
| Date | Event | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 12/3 | [no class] | |
| Wednesday 12/4 | Discussion 12 | User interface concepts [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 12/5 | Lecture 26 | Architecture of information retrieval systems [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Friday 12/6 | Assignment 4 due |
Examinations
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Thursday 12/12 | Early examination, Information Science Building, noon to 1:30 |
| Wednesday 12/18 | Final examination, Olin 165, noon to 1:30 |
William Y. Arms
(wya@cs.cornell.edu)
Last changed: November 30, 2002