UC Berkeley School of Information

IS 240: Information Retrieval

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Outline and Schedule

This is a preliminary outline for the course. It is expected to change during the semester.

(Week. Content -- dates -- readings)

  1. Introduction to Course & IR history -- (Jan 20) -- Readings: Preface in Manning Papers by Joyce and Needham (PDF); Luhn (PDF); Doyle (PDF)in Readings

  2. Key Concepts in IR -- (Jan 25, 27) -- Readings: Chapter 2, 3, 4 in Manning; Maron and Kuhns (PDF); Cleverdon (PDF); Salton and Lesk (PDF); Hutchins (PDF); Saracevic (PDF) in Readings from Lecture 3

  3. IR Models: Boolean and Extensions -- (Feb 1, 3) -- Readings: Ch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Manning; - McCune, Tong & Dean "RUBRIC..." (PDF)

  4. IR Models: Vector Space -- (Feb 8, 10) -- Readings: Ch. 6, 7 in Manning; - Salton, Wong & Yang "A Vector Space Model..." (PDF); Salton & Buckley "Term-Weighting Approaches..." (PDF); Salton & McGill "SMART and SIRE..." (PDF); Additional Readings: Salton (Science) (PDF); Singhal, Buckley & Mitra (Pivoted) (PDF); Raghavan & Wong (PDF)

    • Slides from Lecture 6 download

    • Slides from Lecture 7 download

    • Mini-TREC database and previous queries made available (Feb 10)

  5. Vector Space and Clustering -- (Feb 17) -- Readings: Ch. 16 and 17 in Manning;

    • Monday Feb. 15 is President's Day Holiday
    • Slides from Lecture 8 download

  6. IR Models: Probabilistic Models and Language Models -- (Feb 22, 24) -- Readings: Ch. 11 in Manning; - Robertson "The Probability Ranking Principle in IR"(PDF); Belkin, et al. "ASK for IR"(PDF); Croft & Harper "Using Probabilistic..." (PDF); Robertson & Walker "Some Simple Effective Approximations..." (PDF); Turtle & Croft "Inference Networks" (PDF);

  7. Probabilistic cont & IR Evaluation and Measures -- (Mar 1, 3) -- Readings: Ch. 8 in Manning; Ch. 4 in Readings in IR Additional Readings: Cooper, Gey, Dabney "Staged Logistic Regression" (PDF); Ponte & Croft ;Lavrenko & Croft; Hiemstra, Robertson & Zaragoza from Lectures 9 & 10   

    Mini-TREC group reports on system setup

  8. Evaluation Cont. & IR Components Introduction: Relevance Feedback -- (Mar 8, 10) -- Readings: Ch. 8 in Manning;& Salton and Buckley "...Relevance Feedback...", Griffiths, Luckhurst and Willett "Using Interdocument Similarity...".

  9. LSI & Filtering and TDT -- (Mar 15, 17) -- Readings: Ch. 18 in Manning;.

  10. Spring Break: No Class -- (Mar 22, 24) -- Readings: Ch. ?

  11. IR Components - Intro to GIR -- (Mar 29, 31) -- Readings: Ch. 9, 10 in Manning;

  12. Digital Libraries & GIR -- (Apr 5, 7) -- Readings: Ch. 18 in Manning;

  13. Web IR -- -- (Apr 12, 14) -- Readings: Ch. 19, 20, 21 in Manning; Google Description

  14. Web and Grid/Cloud IR & NLP -- (Apr 19, 21) -- Readings: Ch. 13, 14 in Manning;

    Mini-TREC results of runs due Monday! Mini-TREC Results and system rankings returned Wednesday.

  15. Future of IR & Reports -- (Apr 26, 28) -- Readings:

    Mini-TREC: Group reports Apr 28th

  16. RRR WEEK -- (May 3, 5) -- Readings: Ch. 15 in Manning; No Class Meetings in RRR Week -- work on your paper

  17. Final papers due -- (May 10) -- Readings: Ch. ?