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Lecture topics and assignments. Readings refer tothe textbook or the reader. Schedule is subject to change.

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Week 1:

Tues Aug 24
Lecture: Course Overview, Philadelphia Police Video (MAH)
Reading: Borges
Homework: Assignment 1. What is Information in your area? (due Aug 26)

Thurs Aug 26
Lecture: What is Information? (Including student responses) Discuss Borges (RRL) Quantifying the world's information
Reading: Chapters 1-3 of Rowley
Homework: Assignment 1 is due.

Tues Aug 31
Lecture: Metadata, Markup Languages (RRL)
Homework: Assignment 2: Dublin Core/XML. (due Sept 07)
Reading: XML chapter in reader, Baeza-Yates Chap. 6

Thurs Sep 02
Lecture: Metadata, Markup Languages (RRL)

Tues Sep 07
Lecture: Controlled Vocabularies (RRL)
Reading: Soergel, Svenonius, Bates, Borgman
Homework:
Assignment2 is due.
Assignment3: Architecture Slides Metadata Assignment. (due Sept 14)

Thurs Sep 09
Lecture: Thesaurus Development; the Indexing Process (RRL)

Tues Sep 14
Lecture: Lexical Relations, Categories and Classification (MAH)
Reading: Bates, Clark&Clark, WordNet
Homework:
Assignment 3 is due.
Assignment 4 Wordnet/Facets vs. Hierarchies. (due Sept 21)

Thurs Sep 16
Lecture: Lexical Relations, Categories and Classification (MAH)

Tues Sep 21
Lecture: The Information Design Process (MAH)
Reading: Sano, Hauser & Clausing (QFD), Rosenfeld & Morville
Homework: Assignment4 is due. Assignment 5 (due Sept 30)

Thurs Sep 23
Lecture: David Steier, Guest Speaker

Tues Sep 28
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)
Reading: Database Modeling & Design(Chs 1, 2, 3.0-3.3, 4, 5.0-5.2)
Thurs Sep 30
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)Homework: Assignment 5 is due. Assignment 6. (due Oct 07)

Midterm Preparation Guide

Tues Oct 05
Lecture: Database Design (RRL)

Thurs Oct 07
Lecture: Database Design, Midterm Review (RRL)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.1 - 10.2
Homework: Assignment 6 is due.

Tues Oct 12
Lecture: MIDTERM.
Thurs Oct 14
Lecture: Introduction to IR/The Search Process (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 1, 4.1 - 4.3
Homework: Assignment 7. Lexis-Nexis (due Oct 26)

Tues Oct 19
Lecture: Content Analysis, Tokenization, Zipf (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 7.1 - 7.2
Reading: Jacob Nielsenon Zipf distributions

Thurs Oct 21
Lecture: Lexical Associations, Implementation (inverted indices) (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 2.1 - 2.4, 8.1 - 8.2
Homework: Assignment 8 Zipf homework. (due Nov 02)

Tues Oct 26
Lecture: Vector Representation, Clustering (RRL)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 2.5, Cheshire paper
Assignment 7 is due.

Thurs Oct 28
Lecture: Weighting, Ranking Algorithms (RRL)

Tues Nov 02
Lecture: Evaluation (MAH)
Reading: Blair & Maron, Modern IR, Ch. 3
Assignment 8 is due.
Assignment 9 Vector Space. (due Nov 11): pdf version   postscript version   latex source

Thurs Nov 04
Lecture: Probabilistic Ranking (Guest lecture: Bill Cooper)

Tues Nov 09
Lecture: General HCI Issues (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.1 - 10.2, Bates 79, Bates 89, O'Day & Jeffries

Thurs Nov 11
Lecture: Search Starting Points, Overviews (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.3 - 10.4
Homework: Assignment 9 is due.
Assignment 10 IR Evaluation. (due Nov 18)

Tues Nov 16
Lecture: Query Specification, Context (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 10.5 - 10.6, 10.8

Thurs Nov 18
Lecture: Interfaces for Supporting the Search Process (MAH)
Homework: Assignment 10 is due.

Tues Nov 23
Lecture: Relevance Feedback -- Recent (MAH)
Reading: Modern IR, 5.2, 10.7; Konstan et al., Shardanand & Maes

Thurs Nov 25 -- Thanksgiving

Tues Nov 30
Lecture: Web/Hypertext IR (RRL)
Reading: Modern IR, Ch. 13
Homework: Final Exam Study Guide

Thurs Dec 02
Lecture: Course Review (RRL)