Outline and Schedule
This is a preliminary outline for the course. It is expected to change during the semester.
(Week. Content -- dates -- readings)
Introduction to Course & IR history -- (Jan 16,18) -- Readings: Ch. 1 in Grossman & Frieder, Papers by Joyce and Needham; Luhn; Doyle in Readings
Key Concepts in IR -- (Jan 23, 25) -- Readings: Ch. 1 & Maron and Kuhns; Cleverdon; Salton and Lesk; Hutchins; Saracevic in Readings from Lecture 3
IR Models: Boolean and Extensions -- (Jan 30, Feb 1) -- Readings: Ch. 2.5,2.9 - McCune, Tong & Dean "RUBRIC..."
IR Models: Vector Space & Clustering -- (Feb 6, 8) -- Readings: Ch. 2.1 - Salton, Wong & Yang "A Vector Space Model..."; Salton & Buckley "Term-Weighting Approaches..."; Salton & McGill "SMART and SIRE..."; Handouts: Salton (Science) PDF; Singhal, Buckley & Mitra (Pivoted)PDF; Raghavan & Wong
IR Models: Probabilistic Models and Inference Nets -- (Feb 13, 15) -- Readings: Ch. 2.2,2.4 - Robertson "The Probability Ranking Principle in IR"; Belkin, et al. "ASK for IR"; Croft & Harper "Using Probabilistic..."; Robertson & Walker "Some Simple Effective Approximations..."; Turtle & Croft "Inference Networks"; Handout - Cooper, Gey, Dabney "Staged Logistic Regression" PDF;
Mini-TREC database and previous queries made available (Feb 15)
Language Models and Intro. to Evaluation -- (Feb 20, 22 ) -- Readings: Ch. 2.3,3.5 & - Stralkowski "Robust Text Processing..."; Handouts:
Ponte & Croft ;Lavrenko & Croft; Hiemstra, Robertson & Zaragoza from Lecture 12*Note: Class on Feb. 20 attended lecture by Paul Dourish -- no slides Slides from Lecture 11 download
IR Evaluation and Measures -- (Feb 27, Mar 1) -- Readings: Ch. 4 in Readings in IR
Mini-TREC group reports on system setup- Slides from Lecture 12 download
No Class Thursday, March 1
Evaluation -- Continued & Filtering and Routing -- (Mar 6, 8) -- Readings: Ch. 5 & Salton and Buckley "...Relevance Feedback...", Griffiths, Luckhurst and Willett "Using Interdocument Similarity...".
Mini-TREC New queries for testing will be made available.
IR Components -- (Mar 13, 15) -- Readings: Ch. 3
Note: On March 15th class will be held in room 205
LSI & Filtering and Routing -- (Mar 20, 22) -- Readings: 2.6
- Slides from Lecture 17 download
Note: Class may attend the Lecture in 202 on Tuesday.
Spring Break: No Class -- (Mar 27, 29) -- Readings: Ch. ?
Digital Libraries & Geographic IR -- (Apr 3, 5) -- Readings: Ch. 8
GIR & IR Components Continued -- (Apr 10, 12) -- Readings: Ch. 5, Ch. 6
Web IR -- -- (Apr 17, 19) -- Readings: Ch. 8, Ch. 3.8 Google Description
- Slides from Lecture 22 download
Mini-TREC results of runs due Thursday!
Web Search, Grid IR & NLP -- (Apr 24, 26) -- Readings: Ch. 4
Mini-TREC Results and system rankings returned Tuesday. See the new RESULTS directory of your group directories for results data
NLP & Cross-language IR -- (May 1, 3) -- Readings: Ch. 8
- Slides from Lecture 25 download Additional Slides
MiniTREC Group reports & Wrapup -- (May 8) -- Readings: Ch. ? Mini-TREC: Group reports (Thursday)