Created: Thu 08 May 2008
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Note: This is an approximate syllabus; it may change at any time.
- Lecture 01, Tue 05-06-08
- Overview of ISU535; overview of Information Retrieval
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- Lecture 02, Wed 05-07-08
- Evaluation in Information Retrieval
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- Lecture 03, Thu 05-08-08
- Boolean retrieval model
- Start vector space model...
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- Homework 01 assigned
- Lecture 04, Mon 05-12-08
- Finish vector space model
- Start language models...
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- Lecture 05, Tue 05-13-08
- More language models
- Start smoothing...
- Lecture 06, Wed 05-14-08
- Finish smoothing
- Start statistics of text (Zipf's & Heap's Laws)...
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- Lecture 07, Thu 05-15-08
- Lecture 08, Mon 05-19-08
- Finish statistics of text
- Start text processing...
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- Lecture 09, Tue 05-20-08
- Finish text processing...
- Indexing and file organization
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- Lecture 10, Wed 05-21-08
- Start compression...
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- Lecture 11, Thu 05-22-08
- Finish compression
- Web retrieval
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- Homework 02 due
- Lecture 12, Tue 05-27-08
- Finish web retrieval
- Start metasearch: data fusion
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- Lecture 13, Wed 05-28-08
- Finish metasearch: data fusion
- Metasearch: on-line learning
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- Lecture 14, Thu 05-29-08
- Metasearch: collection fusion
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- Lecture 15, Mon 06-02-08
- Start clustering...
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- Homework 03 assigned
- Lecture 16, Tue 06-03-08
- Lecture 17, Wed 06-04-08
- Collaborative filtering
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- Lecture 18, Thu 06-05-08
- News filtering
- Topic detection and tracking
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- Lecture 19, Mon 06-09-08
- Machine learning for information retrieval
- Spam filtering
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- Lecture 20, Tue 06-10-08
- Lecture 21, Thu 06-12-08
- Lecture 22, Mon 06-16-08
- Relevance feedback
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- Lecture 23, Tue 06-17-08
- Lecture 24, Wed 06-18-08
- Lecture 25, Thu 06-19-08
- Final Exam, Mon 06-23-08
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