ISU535 05X1 Information Retrieval

Syllabus (subject to change)

Created: Mon 2 May 2005
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Lecture	Date		topic	reading	assignments
1	Tue	3 May	Administrivia Introduction to IR	MIR ch 1	student information required
2	Wed	4	Evaluation of IR systems	MIR ch 3
3	Thr	5	Evaluation of IR systems Retrieval models (vector space)	MIR ch 2	hw1 out
4	Mon	9	Retrieval models (language models)	MIR ch 2
5	Tue	10	Language models
6	Wed	11	Language models Smoothing methods
7	Thr	12	Indexing	MIR ch 7.1; 7.2	hw1 due
8	Mon	16	File organization Zipf's law	MIR ch 8.2; 8.3.2 MIR ch 6.1-6.3	hw2 out
9	Tue	17	Statistics of text
10	Wed	18	Heaps Law Compression	MIR ch 7.4
11	Thr	19	Compression
12	Mon	23	Inference networks	MIR ch 2.8
13	Tue	24	Review of language models, compression Clustering
14	Wed	25	Clustering	MIR ch 7.3
15	Thr	26	Clustering Metasearch		proj1 out hw2 due / hw3 out
	Mon	30	no class - memorial day
16	Tue	31	Metasearch
17	Wed	1 Jun	Metasearch Distributed retrieval
18	Thr	2	Distributed retrieval	MIR ch 9.3	hw3 due
19	Mon	6	Google, page rank	http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/
20	Tue	7	Searching the web	MIR ch13
21	Wed	8	Searching the web
22	Thr	9	Collaborative filtering	some slides http://www.grouplens.org/ http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/192844.192905
	Sun	12			proj1 due (23:59) / proj2 out
23	Mon	13	Text filtering Spam filtering	http://spamassassin.apache.org/
24	Tue	14	Machine Learning for IR
25	Wed	15	Cross Language-IR
26	Thur	16	Advance topics		last day of classes
	Mon	20	exam review room 166, 3 - 4:30PM
	tue	21			proj2 due before exam gr students work due before exam final exam (in class, 2h) 1PM

Portions courtesy James Allan http://www-ciir.cs.umass.edu/~allan/