Lecture: Probabilistic Ranking, Relevance Feedback (RRL) 
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Readings: Hearst paper on query constraints; Cooper paper on Boolean search (handout)
Assignment 3: Zipf Assignment. Due Sept 27

Week 5

Tues Sep 25

Lecture: Web Search -- Issues and Algorithms (WS)Download
Readings: Larson et al. Cheshire paper,   Brin & Page Web architecture paper.
Optional additional reading: searchenginewatch.com stats, searchtools.com for information on site search

Thurs Sep 27

Guest Lecture: Web Search -- Architecture and Crawling, Avi Rappaport(

Readings: MIR Ch. 8.1 - 8.2, Heydon & Najork paper on web crawling (sections 1-3.2, 5-6 only), Maglio and Barrett article on intermediaries.
Optional additional reading: Talks from the 2000 infonortics search engine meeting (unfortunately requires IE to view), web crawler information 

Week 6

Tues Oct 02

Lecture: Evaluation (RRL)
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Readings: MIR Ch. 3, Blair & Maron paper
Assignment #4: Ranking Assigment (PDF) (latex). Due Oct. 9

Thurs Oct 04

Lecture: Interfaces for Information Retrieval (WS)
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Readings: Hearst chapter in MIR

Week 7

Tues Oct 09

Guest Lecture: Abbe Don, Information Architecture
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Readings: Guides paper, Proceedings of CHI 1991
Readings: www.abbedon.com
Readings: Rosenfeld and Morville on Information Architecture
Readings: Newman and Landay on website design

Thurs Oct 11 

Lecture: Recommender Systems (WS)
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Readings: CACM Special Section on Recommender Systems edited by Varian and Resnick

Week 8

Tues Oct 16

Lecture: Social Navigation
Lecture: Midterm Review (WS)
Readings: Introduction to Social Navigation by Hook et al. 
Review: Midterm Practice Questions

Thurs Oct 18

Guest Lecture: Marc Davis, Metadata for Digital Film and Video
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Readings: CACM article by Davis
Readings: Davis article from Readings in HCI
Readings: MPEG-7 document
Optional Reading: Sack and Davis, IEEE Multimedia article
Midterm Assigned

Week 9

Tues Oct 23

Lecture: Metadata / Markup (RRL)
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Readings: OI Ch. 2-3 
Midterm Due

Thurs Oct 25

Lecture: Metadata / Markup (RRL)
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Readings: OI Ch. 4-5, Bates on metadata

Week 10

Tues Oct 30

Lecture: Artificial Intelligence, Ontologies, and Common Sense
Readings: Minsky on Commonsense-based Interfaces
Readings: Mueller on a Commonsense-based interface
Readings: Lenat, et al. on Cyc
Recommended: www.cyc.com, www.openmind.com, www.signiform.com
Recommended: more on Cyc

Thurs Nov 01

Lecture: Lexical Relations, WordNet (WS)
Readings: Fellbaum and Miller WordNet chapters
Readings: Lenat on WordNet and Miller on Cyc
 

Week 11

Tues Nov 06

Lecture: Stories and Information Extraction
Readings: Ralph Grishman on Information Extraction

Thurs Nov 08

Lecture: Cognition, Culture and Categories (WS)
Readings: Lakoff chapters from Women, Fire and Dangerous Things

Week 12

Tues Nov 13

Lecture: Controlled Vocabulary (RRL) 
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Readings: OI Ch. 6-7; Elaine Svenonius, "Unanswered Questions in the Design of Controlled Vocabularies;" Borgman paper

Thurs Nov 15

Lecture: Indexing Languages; SGML; XML (RRL) 
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Readings: Pitts-Moultis & Kirk XML paper

 
Assignment 5: Web Intermediary

Week 13

Tues Nov 20

Lecture: Thesaurus Design and Construction (RRL)
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Readings: Soergel chapter

Thurs Nov 22

Thanksgiving, no class.

Week 14

Tues Nov 27

Lecture: Information Architecture and Web Site Design (WS)

Readings: Teorey & McFadden (Handouts)

Thurs Nov 29

Lecture: Database Design (RRL)
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Assignments: Assignment 5 due
Readings: Teorey & McFadden (Handouts)

Week 15

Tues Dec 04

Lecture: Database Design - Normalization and SQL (RRL)
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Readings: Teorey & McFadden & Riccardi (Handouts)

Thurs Dec 06 

Lecture: Final Review (WS) 
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FINAL EXAM

Monday Dec 10, 9:30am-12:30pm