Date

Topic

Reading

Assignments

1

Tue

May 9

Administrivia

Introduction to IR

MIR ch 1

student information required

hw1 out

2

Wed

10

Evaluation of IR systems

MIR ch 3

3

Thr

11

Evaluation

Boolean model

Review: Linear algebra

4

Mon

15

Vector Space models

Latent Semantic Indexing

MIR ch 2

5

Tue

16

Review: Probabilities

Language models

hw1 due/ hw2 out

6

Wed

17

Language models

Smoothing methods

7

Thr

18

Retrieval Examples

8

Mon

22

Statistics of text

MIR ch 7.1; 7.2

9

Tue

23

Statistics of text

10

Wed

24

Compression

MIR ch 8.2; 8.3.2

11

Thr

25

Indexing

7.4

Mon

29

MEMORIAL DAY

12

Tue

30

File organization

MIR ch 7.3

13

Wed

31

Clustering

MIR ch 6.1-6.3

hw2 due / hw3 out

projects out

14

Thr

June 1

Review: Statistics

Inference networks

tri-valued belief net

MIR ch 2.8

15

Mon

5

WWW IR

- Google; page rank

- HITS link analysis

- Markov chains

http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

intelligent_surfer_info_in_pagerank

Pagerank Explained Correctly with Examples

16

Tue

6

WWW IR

- web crawling

- duplicates, mirrors, spam

- web size

authoritative_inhyperlinked_env.pdf

hypersearching_web

powerlaw_internet_topology

hw3 due

17

Wed

7

Metasearch

18

Thr

8

Metasearch

Machine Learning for IR

Hedge algorithm used to handle user feedback

19

Mon

12

Distributed retrieval

20

Tue

13

Cross-language IR

some slides

21

Wed

14

Topic detection and Tracking

some slides

22

Thr

15

News filtering

Spam filtering

http://spamassassin.apache.org/

23

Mon

19

http://www.grouplens.org/
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/192844.192905

24

Tue

20

Question answering

Summarization

http://www.brainboost.com/

http://www.summarization.com/

25

Wed

21

Multimedia Retrieval

http://images.google.com/

http://amazon.ece.utexas.edu/~qasim/research.htm

http://www.fxpal.com/people/foote/musicr/doc0.html

http://viper.unige.ch/research/video/

proj1 due in class

26

Thur

22

Exam review

last day of classes

Mon

26

final exam 2 hours

SNELL room 17

8AM

tue

27

wed

28

proj2 due (23:59)