Assignments
| Materials | Due Date | |
| Critique 1 | J. Zobel. How reliable are large-scale information retrieval experiments. SIGIR 1998. | Mon 9/16 |
| Assignment 1 | pdf,
html (last modified Mon 9/16)
Lemur successful installations reported from cs574 students thus far: |
Mon 9/30 |
| Critique 2 | Dumais et al. Web Question Answering: Is More Always Better? SIGIR 2001. | Weds 10/2 |
| Prelim 1 | The in-class prelim will test any material covered in class, in the readings (excluding the ones labeled "background" or "extra"), and in the critiqued papers. | Mon 10/7 |
| Assignment 2 | Building a simple QA system
questions.txt answers.txt |
Mon 10/28 |
| Critique 3 | Blum & Mitchell, Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data with Co-Training, Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Computational Learning Theory, July 1998. | Wed 10/30 |
| Assignment 3 | Text Classification
arxiv_doc.train.gz, arxiv_classes.train.gz arxiv_doc.test.gz, arxiv_classes.test.gz |
Wed 11/13 |
| Critique 4 | Thelen. and Riloff, A Bootstrapping Method for Learning Semantic Lexicons using Extraction Pattern Contexts, Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002. | Wed 12/4 |