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General Information
This preliminary syllabus can be expected to change as the course progresses.
Classes are divided into two formats.
- Lectures
- Each week there will be two conventional lectures in usual format,
on Tuesday and Thursday. PowerPoint slides will be available on
the Web.
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- Discussions
- Class discussions on Wednesday evenings will be around readings from
journal articles 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 8/26 |
Lecture 1 |
Overview of information discovery
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Monday 9/20 |
Assignment 1 due |
Building an index |
| Tuesday 9/21 |
Lecture 8 |
Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness 1
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/22 |
Discussion 4 |
TREC [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/23 |
Lecture 9 |
Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness 2
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 6
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/28 |
Lecture 10 |
Probabilistic information retrieval
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/29 |
Discussion 5 |
Latent semantic indexing [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/30 |
Lecture 11 |
Latent semantic indexing
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 7
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/5 |
Lecture 12 |
Query refinement and relevance feedback
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/6 |
Discussion 6 |
Mixed content and mixed metadata [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/7 |
Lecture 13 |
Usability 1
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Friday 10/8 |
Assignment 2 due |
Latent semantic indexing |
Week 8
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/12 |
[fall break] |
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| Wednesday 10/13 |
Midterm examination
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| Thursday 10/14 |
Lecture 14 |
Usability 2 [PowerPoint,
HTML] |
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Monday 11/8 |
Assignment 3 due |
Building a search engine |
| Tuesday 11/9 |
Lecture 21 |
Web searching 3
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/10 |
Discussion 10 |
Informedia [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 11/11 |
Lecture 22 |
Non-textual materials 1
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 13
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/16 |
[no lecture] |
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| Wednesday 11/17 |
Discussion 11 |
Search/Retrieve Web Services [reading]
[PowerPoint,
HTML] |
| Thursday 11/18 |
Lecture 23 |
Non-textual materials 2 [PowerPoint,
HTML] |
Week 14
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/23 |
Lecture 24 |
Architecture of information retrieval
systems [PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/24 |
[Thanksgiving] |
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| Thursday 11/25 |
[Thanksgiving] |
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Week 15
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/30 |
Lecture 25 |
Thesauruses and cluster analysis 1 [PowerPoint,
HTML] |
| Wednesday 12/1 |
Discussion 12 |
MeSH and UML [reading]
[PowerPoint,
HTML] |
| Thursday 12/2 |
Lecture 26 |
Thesauruses and cluster analysis 2
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Friday 12/3 |
Assignment 4 due |
Searching with web services |
Examinations
| Date |
Event |
| Monday 12/13 |
Final examination (12:00 to 2:30, Hollister
110) |
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