Syllabus

Information Organization and Retrieval

INFO 202
MW 9:00-10:30, South Hall 202

L1. INTRODUCTION (8/26)

L2. ISSUES AND CONTEXTS (8/31)

A1: 202 in the News (due 9/9)

L3. ORGANIZATION {AND,OR,VS} RETRIEVAL (9/2)

L4. XML (9/9)

A2: Getting Started with XML and XML Editors (due 9/16)

L5. CONCEPTS & CATEGORIES (9/14)

L6. METADATA & METADATA STANDARDS (9/16)

L7. CONTROLLED NAMES AND VOCABULARIES (9/21)

A3: Designing a Vocabulary (due 9/28)

L8. CLASSIFICATION (9/23)

L9. ONTOLOGY (9/28)

A4: Faceted Classification (due 10/5)

L10. THE SEMANTIC WEB (9/30)

L11. DOCUMENTS AND DATA MODELS... AND MODELING (10/5)

L12. CONTENT MANAGEMENT (10/7)

A5: Documents in the Wild (due 10/19)

L13. REVIEW (10/12)

L14. ENTERPRISE CATEGORIZATION, INFORMATION INTEGRATION & INTEROPERABILITY (10/14)

A6: Social / Distributed Classification (Part 1 due 11/2) (Part 2 due 11/11)

L15. SOCIAL / DISTRIBUTED CATEGORIZATION (10/19)

L16. PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (10/21)

L17. METADATA FOR MULTIMEDIA (10/26)

L18. MIDTERM EXAM (10/28)

L19. USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (11/2)

L20. TEXT PROCESSING; BOOLEAN MODELS (11/4)

L21. VECTOR MODELS (11/9)

A7: Term Weighting and Ranking Calculations (due 11/25)

L22. DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION (11/16)

L23. STRUCTURE-BASED MODELS [1] (11/18)

L24. STRUCTURE-BASED MODELS [2] (11/23)

L25. MOBILE and MULTIMEDIA IR (11/25)

L26. APPLIED IR & NLP [1](11/30)

L27. APPLIED IR and NLP [2] (12/2)

L28. ALUMNI DAY (12/7)

A8: Reflections on Alumni Day (due 12/14)

L29. COURSE REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM (12/9)

L30. FINAL EXAM (12/14)