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 SIMS 202 Information Organization and Retrieval 

Assignments

Week 1: (Aug 25): All students, please fill out this questionnaire.


Week 2: (Sept 1) Complete Assignment 2, due on Thursday Sept 3. 

Week 3: Complete Assignment 3, due on Thursday Sept 17. 

Week 4: Complete Assignment 4, due on Tuesday Sept 29. 
            

Week 5:  Readings: Rowley Chap. 7, 15-16 

Week 6:  Complete the Learn Unix and Emacs Pre-Assignment. Due Oct. 8. 

Week 7:  Complete Assignment 5   Assigning Relevance Judgements.   Due Oct 15. 

Week 8:  Midterm

 Pick up Reader at Ned's (2476 Bancroft, just west of Telegraph). 


Week 9:  Complete Assignment 6 (due November 3). This includes the following readings from the Reader: 
    The Fox chapter on Lexical Analysis and Stoplists. 
    The Frakes chapter on Stemming Algorithms. 
    All of Chapter 2 of the Belew book. 
    The following pages from Chapter 3 of the Belew book: 211-216 (top), 228-258. 
    The Harman chapter on Ranking Algorithms. 


Week 10:  Work on Assignment 6. 

Week 11:  Assignment 7 (due November 10) 
Readings: 
    Chapter 1 of the Belew book. 
    The Bates '79 article. 
    The Bates '89 article. 
    The O'Day and Jeffries article. 
    The Russell et al. article. 

Week 12:  Assignment 8 (due November 19) 
Readings: 
    The Hearst chapter on User Interfaces and Visualization 
    The Belew and Hatton RAVE article 

Week 13:  Work on Assignment 8. 
Readings: 
    The Salton and Buckley article 
    The Koenneman and Belkin article 


Week 14:  Optional Extra Credit -- Answer Survey about Belew Book 
(due December 2) 
Readings: 
    The Resnick and Varian article. 
    The Konstan et al. article. 
    The Shardanand and Maes article. 

Week 15:  Practice Final Exam
Readings: 
    The Blair and Maron article 
    The Srinivasan article. 

 
  Last Modified: December 3, 1998.