SIMS 240 Schedule
This is a preliminary outline for the course. It can be expected to change
during the semester.
Week. Content (dates) --
readings
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Introduction to Course & IR history (Jan 17,19) --
Readings: Ch. 1 in Grossman & Frieder &
Papers by Joyce and Needham; Luhn; Doyle in Readings
Slides
from Lecture 1
Slides
from Lecture 2
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Key Concepts in IR (Jan
24, 26) -- Readings: Ch. 1 & Maron and
Kuhns; Cleverdon; Salton and Lesk; Hutchins; Saracevic in Readings
Slides
from Lecture 3
Slides from Lecture 4
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IR Models: Boolean and Extensions (Jan 31, Feb 2) --
Readings: Ch. 2.5,2.9 - McCune, Tong & Dean "RUBRIC..."
Slides from Lecture 5
Slides from Lecture 6
- IR Models: Vector Space (Feb 7, 9) -- Readings:
Ch. 2.1 - Salton, Wong & Yang "A Vector Space Model..." & Salton & Buckley "Term-Weighting Approaches..." & Salton & McGill "SMART and SIRE..."; Handouts: Salton (Science); Singhal, Buckley & Mitra (Pivoted); Raghavan & Wong
Slides from Lecture 7
Slides
from Lecture 8
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IR Models: Probabilistic Models and Inference Nets (Feb
14, 16) -- Readings: Ch. 2.2,2.4 - Robertson "The Probability Ranking Principle in IR";
Belkin, et al. "ASK for IR"; Croft & Harper "Using Probabilistic..."; Robertson & Walker "Some Simple Effective Approximations..."; Turtle & Croft "Inference Networks"; Handout - Cooper, Gey, Dabney "Staged Logistic Regression"
Slides
from Lecture 9
Slides
from Lecture 10
Mini-TREC database and previous queries made available (Feb 16)
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Language Models and Intro. to Evaluation (Feb
21, 23 ) -- Readings: Ch. 2.3,3.5 & - Stralkowski "Robust Text Processing..."; Handouts: Ponte & Croft
; Lavrenko & Croft; Hiemstra, Robertson & Zaragoza
Slides
from Lecture 11
Slides on Cheshire
Slides
from Lecture 12
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IR Evaluation and Measures (Feb 28, Mar 2) --
Readings: Ch. 4 in Readings in IR
Slides from Lecture 13
Slides from Lecture 14
Mini-TREC group reports on system setup
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Evaluation -- Continued & Filtering and Routing (Mar 7, 9)
-- Readings: Ch. 5 & Salton and
Buckley "...Relevance Feedback...", Griffiths, Luckhurst and Willett "Using Interdocument Similarity...".
Mini-TREC New queries for testing will be made available.
Slides from Lecture 15
Slides from Lecture 16
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IR Components (Mar 14, 16) -- Readings: Ch. 3 -
Slides from Lecture 17
Slides from Lecture 18
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LSI & Clustering (Mar 21, 23) --
Readings: 2.6
Slides from Lecture 19
Slides from Lecture 20
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Spring Break -- No Class (Mar 28, 30) --
Readings: Ch. ?
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Digital Libraries & Geographic IR (Apr 4, 6)
-- Readings: Ch. 8
Slides from Lecture 21
Additional Slides from Lecture 21 (ASIS 1999)
Slides from Lecture 22
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GIR & IR Components Continued (Apr 11, 13) --
Readings: Ch. 5, Ch. 6
Slides from Lecture 23
Slides from Lecture 24
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Web IR & NLP for IR -- (Apr 18, 20) --
Readings: Ch. 8, Ch. 3.8 Google Description
Mini-TREC results of runs due Thursday!
Slides from Lecture 25
Slides from Lecture 26
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NLP & Cross-language IR (Apr 25, 27) --
Readings: Ch. 4
Mini-TREC Results and system rankings returned Tuesday
Slides from Lecture 27
Slides from Lecture 28
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TBA (May 2, 4) --
Readings: Ch. 8
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MiniTREC Group reports & Wrapup (May 9) --
Readings: Ch. ?
Mini-TREC: Group reports (Thursday)