Outline and Schedule
This is a preliminary outline for the course. It is expected to change during the semester.
(Week. Content -- dates -- readings)
Introduction to Course & IR history -- (Jan 21) -- Readings: Preface in Manning Papers by Joyce and Needham (PDF); Luhn (PDF); Doyle (PDF)in Readings
- Slides from Lecture 1 download
Key Concepts in IR -- (Jan 26, 28) -- Readings: Chapter 2, 3, 4 in Manning; Maron and Kuhns (PDF); Cleverdon (PDF); Salton and Lesk (PDF); Hutchins (PDF); Saracevic (PDF) in Readings from Lecture 3
IR Models: Boolean and Extensions -- (Feb 2, 4) -- Readings: Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Manning; - McCune, Tong & Dean "RUBRIC..." (PDF)
- Slides from Lecture 4 download
- Slides from Lecture 5 download
- Porter Stemmer code download zip
IR Models: Vector Space -- (Feb 9, 11) -- Readings: Ch. 6, 7 in Manning; - Salton, Wong & Yang "A Vector Space Model..." (PDF); Salton & Buckley "Term-Weighting Approaches..." (PDF); Salton & McGill "SMART and SIRE..." (PDF); Additional Readings: Salton (Science) (PDF); Singhal, Buckley & Mitra (Pivoted) (PDF); Raghavan & Wong (PDF)
Vector Space and Clustering -- (Feb 18) -- Readings: Ch. 16 and 17 in Manning;
- Monday Feb. 16 is President's Day Holiday
- Slides from Lecture 8 download
IR Models: Probabilistic Models and Language Models -- (Feb 23, 25) -- Readings: Ch. 11 in Manning; - Robertson "The Probability Ranking Principle in IR"(PDF); Belkin, et al. "ASK for IR"(PDF); Croft & Harper "Using Probabilistic..." (PDF); Robertson & Walker "Some Simple Effective Approximations..." (PDF); Turtle & Croft "Inference Networks" (PDF);
- Slides from Lecture 9 download
- Note: No Class on Feb. 25
Probabilistic cont & IR Evaluation and Measures -- (Mar 2, 4) -- Readings: Ch. 8 in Manning; Ch. 4 in Readings in IR Additional Readings: Cooper, Gey, Dabney "Staged Logistic Regression" (PDF); Ponte & Croft ;Lavrenko & Croft; Hiemstra, Robertson & Zaragoza from Lectures 9 & 10
Mini-TREC group reports on system setup
No Class -- (Mar 9, 11) -- Readings: Ch. ?
Evaluation -- Cont. -- (Mar 16, 18) -- Readings: Ch. 8 in Manning;& Salton and Buckley "...Relevance Feedback...", Griffiths, Luckhurst and Willett "Using Interdocument Similarity...".
Mini-TREC New queries for testing will be made available.
Spring Break: No Class -- (Mar 23, 25) -- Readings: Ch. ?
IR Components - Intro to GIR -- (Mar 30, Apr 1) -- Readings: Ch. 9, 10 in Manning;
LSI & Filtering and Routing -- (Apr 6, Apr 8) -- Readings: Ch. 18 in Manning;
Digital Libraries & GIR -- (Apr 13, 15) -- Readings:
- Slides from Lecture 18 download
- No Class on Wednesday
Web IR -- -- (Apr 20, 22) -- Readings: Ch. 19, 20, 21 in Manning; Google Description
Mini-TREC results of runs due Thursday!
Web Search, Grid IR & NLP -- (Apr 27, 29) -- Readings: Ch. 13, 14 in Manning;
Mini-TREC Results and system rankings returned Tuesday. See the new RESULTS directory of your group directories for results data
NLP & Cross-language IR -- (May 4, 6) -- Readings: Ch. 15 in Manning;
- Slides from Lecture 23 download Additional Slides
- Slides from Lecture 24 download
MiniTREC Group reports & Wrapup -- (May 11) -- Readings: Ch. ? Mini-TREC: Group reports (Thursday)