Assignment4 is due. Assignment 5 (due Sept 30)Thurs Sep 23
Lecture:
David Steier, Guest Speaker
Week 6: Tues Sep
28
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)
Reading: Database Modeling
& Design(Chs 1, 2, 3.0-3.3, 4, 5.0-5.2)
Thurs Sep
30
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)Homework: Assignment 5 is due. Assignment
6. (due Oct 07)
Week
7: Tues Oct 05
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)
Thurs
Oct 07
Lecture: Database Design, Midterm Review
(RRL)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.1 - 10.2
Homework: Assignment 6 is due.
Week 8:
Tues Oct 12
Lecture: MIDTERM.
Thurs Oct 14
Lecture:
Introduction to IR/The Search Process (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR,
Ch. 1, 4.1 - 4.3
Homework: Assignment
7. Lexis-Nexis (due Oct 26)
Week
9:Tues Oct 19
Lecture: Content Analysis,
Tokenization, Zipf (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 7.1 - 7.2
Reading: Jacob
Nielsenon Zipf distributions
Thurs Oct 21
Lecture:
Lexical Associations, Implementation (inverted indices)
(MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 2.1 - 2.4, 8.1 - 8.2
Homework:
Assignment 8 Zipf homework. (due Nov 02)
Week 10: Tues Oct
26
Lecture: Vector Representation, Clustering (RRL)
Reading:
Modern IR, Ch. 2.5, Cheshire paper
Assignment
7 is due.
Thurs Oct 28
Lecture: Weighting, Ranking
Algorithms (RRL)
Week 11: Tues Nov 02
Lecture:
Evaluation (MAH)
Reading: Blair & Maron, Modern IR,
Ch. 3
Assignment
8 is due.
Assignment 9 Vector Space. (due Nov 11):
pdf version
postscript version
latex source
Thurs Nov 04
Lecture: Probabilistic Ranking (Guest lecture: Bill Cooper)
Week 12:
Tues Nov 09
Lecture: General HCI Issues (MAH)
Reading:
Modern IR, Ch. 10.1 - 10.2, Bates 79, Bates 89, O'Day & Jeffries
Thurs Nov 11
Lecture: Search Starting Points,
Overviews (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.3 - 10.4
Homework:
Assignment 9 is due.
Assignment 10 IR Evaluation. (due Nov
18)
Week 13:
Tues
Nov 16
Lecture: Query Specification, Context (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.5 - 10.6, 10.8
Thurs Nov 18
Lecture: Interfaces for Supporting the
Search Process
(MAH)
Homework: Assignment 10 is due.
Week 14:
Tues Nov 23
Lecture: Relevance Feedback -- Recent
(MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, 5.2, 10.7; Konstan et al., Shardanand &
Maes
Thurs Nov 25 -- Thanksgiving
Week 15:
Tues Nov
30
Lecture: Web/Hypertext IR (RRL)
Reading: Modern IR,
Ch. 13
Homework: Final Exam Study Guide
Thurs Dec 02
Lecture:
Course Review (RRL)
Mon Dec 06
FINAL
EXAM