| Week of | Lectures & Reading | Assignments & Exams | |
| Jan 16 | Syllabus & Introduction
(Chapter 1) |
Reading: Roll
Your Own Search Engine
A History of Search Engines |
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| Jan 23 | Basic IR Models
Text Characteristics: Zipf's Law (Chapter 2, pp. 19-30) |
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| Jan 30 | A Guest Presentation by Robert Bland on Library IR Systems
Basic Tokenizing, Indexing, & Vector-Space Retrieval (Chapter 7, pp. 163- 169 & Chapter 8, pp. 191-199) |
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| Feb 6 | Project 1: Code & Description | Project 1 Assigned | |
| Feb 13 | Tries, Query Languages
& Review for Exam
(Chapter 4) | ||
| Feb 20 | Review of Exam 1 & Experimental Evaluation of IR (Chapter 3) |
Exam 1 | |
| Feb 27 | Experimental
Evaluation of IR & Query Operations (Chapters 3, & 5) |
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| March 6 | Text Representation
(Chapter 6) Additional XML Resources: Material from Stanford University XML presentation by Stair & Shurtleff |
Project 1 Due
Search Engine Case Studies Assigned |
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| March 13 | Spring Break: No Class | ||
| March 20 | Intro to Web
Search & Spidering
(Chapter 13) |
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| March 27 | Presentation of Search Engine Case Studies
Interfaces & Link Analysis (Chapter 13) |
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| April 3 | Project 2: Code & Description | Project 2 Assigned | |
| April 10 | Advanced IR Models (Chapter 2, pp. 30-69)
Vector Models (courtesy of Bruce Croft at UMass) Probability Models (courtesy of Bruce Croft at UMass) Bayesian Networks (courtesy of Ami Motro @ George Mason Univ.) |
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| April 17 | April Advance: No Class | ||
| April 24 | Text Categorization & Clustering | ||
| May 1 | Information Extraction & Review for Exam | ||
| May 8 | Review of Exam | Exam 2; Project 2 is due at mid-night | |
| May 15 | Final Meeting: a class discussion |
Roll is not taken. Students are expected to attend all class lectures. Failure to do so will be considered a lack of interest in success on the part of the student.