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SIMS 202 Information Organization and Retrieval  

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Week 1:
Tues Aug 24: Course Overview.View in Browser or Download
Thurs Aug 26: What is Information? View in Browser or Download
Week 2:
Tues Aug 31: Metadata, Markup Languages View in Browser or Download
Thurs Sep 02: Metadata, Markup Languages. View in Browser or Download
Week 3:
Tues Sep 07: Controlled Vocabularies. View in Browser or Download
Thurs Sept 09: Indexing Languages, Theasurus Development. View in Browser or Download
Week 4:
Tues Sep 14: Lexical Relations. View in Browser or Download
Thurs Sept 16: Categories and Classification. View in Browser or Download

Week 5:
Tues Sept 21: Information Design Process. View in Browser or Download
Thurs Sept 23: Guest Speaker: David Steier.
Week 6:
Tues. Sept 28: Introduction to Databases. View in Browser or Download
Thurs. Sept 30: Database Design Part II. View in Browser or Download

Week 7:
Tues. Oct 5: Database Design: Conceptual and Logical Design. View in Browser or Download
Thurs. Oct 7: Database Design: View in Browser or Download

Week 8:
Tues. Oct 9: Midterm. No slides.
Thurs. Oct 11: Introduction to IR/The Search Process. View in Browser or Download

Week 9:
Tues Oct 19: Introduction to Content Analysis. View in Browser or Download
Thurs Oct 21: Statistical Properties of Text and Implementation Issues. View in Browser or Download
Week 10:
Tues Oct 26: Vector Representation.
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Thurs Oct. 28: Weighting, Ranking Algorithms. View in Browser or Download
Week 11:
Tues Nov 2. Evaluation. View in Browser or Download.
Thurs Nov 4 Guest Lecture: Bill Cooper.
Week 12:
Tues Nov 9: Intro to HCI; The Information Seeking Process. View in Browser or Download.
Thurs Nov 11: Starting Points for Search. View in Browser or Download.

Week 13:
Tues Nov 16: Query Specification and Search Context View in Browser or Download.
Thurs Nov 18: Interfaces for Supporting the Process of Search View in Browser or Download.
Week 14:
Tues Nov 16: Relevance Feedback View in Browser or Download.
Thurs Nov 18: Thanksgiving, No Class
Week 15
Tues Nov 30: Web/Hypertext IR View in Browser or Download.
Thurs Dec 2: Final Review View in Browser or Download.