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SIMS 202 Information Organization and Retrieval  

Lectures 

Week, dates: Content 

1.Aug 25 & Aug 27: Introduction  (RRL) 

  • What is Information?
  • How much is there in the world?
  • What kinds of forms does it take?
  • Why do people worry about information overload?
  • Data, MetaData, The Information Lifecycle
2.Sept 1 & Sept 3: Metadata, Data Structures, Bibliographic Data  (RRL) 

3.Sept 8 & Sept 10 : Introduction to Information Retrieval; Introduction to Knowledge Engineering  (MAH) 

4.Sept 15 & Sept 17: Categories and Classification  (MAH) 

5.Sept 22 & Sept 24: Name Authority Control; Thesaurus Design & Development (RRL) 

6.Sept 29 & Oct 1:  Database Structure (RRL) 

7.Oct 6 & Oct 8:  Evaluation, Boolean Queries (RRL) 

8. Oct 13 & Oct 15 : Tokenization, Zipf, Term Associations (RRL) 

    Midterm distributed Oct 15, due Oct 20. 
9. Oct 20 & Oct 22:  Weighting, Ranking Algorithms (RRL) 

10. Oct 27 & Oct 29:  Implementation Issues, Search Process, Intro to HCI (MAH) 

11. Nov 3 & Nov 5:  General HCI Issues, Starting Points (MAH) 

12. Nov 10 & Nov 12:  Overviews, Query Specification (MAH) 

13. Nov 17 & Nov 19:   Relevance Feedback (Traditional and Recent) MAH 

14. Nov 24:  Using Metadata in Search (MAH) 

15. Dec 1: & Dec 3:  Interface Support for the Information Seeking Process, Final Review (MAH) 

    Final Exam, Dec 8, 9:30am-12:30pm