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General Information
This 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 8/24 |
Lecture 1 |
Searching full text 1
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/19 |
Lecture 8 |
Query refinement and relevance feedback
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/20 |
Discussion 4 |
Latent semantic indexing [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/21 |
Lecture 9 |
Latent semantic indexing
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 6
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/26 |
Lecture 10 |
Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness 1
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 9/27 |
Discussion 5 |
TREC [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 9/28 |
Lecture 11 |
Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness 2
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
Week 7
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/3 |
Lecture 12 |
Probabilistic information retrieval
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 10/4 |
Discussion 6 |
Web crawling [reading]
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Thursday 10/5 |
Lecture 13 |
Architecture of information retrieval systems
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Sunday 10/8 |
Assignment 2 due |
Latent semantic indexing |
Week 8
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/10 |
[fall break] |
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| Wednesday 10/11 |
Midterm examination
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| Thursday 10/12 |
Lecture 14 |
[no lecture] [PowerPoint,
HTML] |
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/22 |
Lecture 25 |
Usability 3
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/23 |
[Thanksgiving] |
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| Thursday 11/24 |
[Thanksgiving] |
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Week 15
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/28 |
Lecture 26/27 |
Classification 1
[PowerPoint, HTML]
Classification 2
[PowerPoint, HTML] |
| Wednesday 11/29 |
Discussion 12 |
[To be announced] [reading]
[PowerPoint,
HTML] |
| Thursday 11/30 |
No class |
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| Friday 12/1 |
Assignment 4 due |
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Examination
| Date |
Event |
| Friday 12/15 |
Final examination, Phillips 101, 9-10:30 |
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