ISU535 08X1: Syllabus

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
- Slides:
  - Introduction
Lecture 02, Wed 05-07-08
- Evaluation in Information Retrieval
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 08
- Slides:
  - Evaluation (ISU535)
  - Evaluation (MRS)
Lecture 03, Thu 05-08-08
- Boolean retrieval model
- Start vector space model...
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 01
  - MRS Chap 06
- Slides:
  - Boolean Retrieval Model (ISU535)
  - Vector Space Model (ISU535)
  - Boolean Retrieval Model (MRS)
  - Vector Space Retrieval Model (MRS)
- Homework 01 assigned
Lecture 04, Mon 05-12-08
- Finish vector space model
- Start language models...
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 12
- Slides:
  - Language Models (ISU535)
  - Language Models (MRS)
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)...
- Reading:
  - Retrieval Examples
  - MRS Chap 05
- Slides:
  - Statistics of Text (ISU535)
  - Index Construction (MRS)
Lecture 07, Thu 05-15-08
- Continue statistics of text
- Least-squares line fitting
- Homework 01 due
- Homework 02 assigned
Lecture 08, Mon 05-19-08
- Finish statistics of text
- Start text processing...
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 02
- Slides:
  - Indexing (ISU535)
  - Text Processing (MRS)
Lecture 09, Tue 05-20-08
- Finish text processing...
- Indexing and file organization
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 04
- Slides:
  - Indexing (ISU535)
  - Index Construction (MRS)
Lecture 10, Wed 05-21-08
- Start compression...
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 05
- Slides:
  - Compression (ISU535)
  - Index Compression (MRS)
Lecture 11, Thu 05-22-08
- Finish compression
- Web retrieval
- Reading:
- Slides:
  - WWW IR (ISU535)
  - Web Basics I (MRS)
  - Web Basics II (MRS)
  - Web Crawling and Indexes (MRS)
  - Link Analysis (MRS)
- Homework 02 due
Lecture 12, Tue 05-27-08
- Finish web retrieval
- Start metasearch: data fusion
- Slides:
  - Metasearch (ISU535)
Lecture 13, Wed 05-28-08
- Finish metasearch: data fusion
- Metasearch: on-line learning
- Slides:
  - The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch (ISU535)
Lecture 14, Thu 05-29-08
- Metasearch: collection fusion
- Slides:
  - Distributed IR (ISU535)
Lecture 15, Mon 06-02-08
- Start clustering...
- Reading:
- Slides:
  - Clustering (ISU535)
- Homework 03 assigned
Lecture 16, Tue 06-03-08
- Finish clustering
- Project 01 assigned
Lecture 17, Wed 06-04-08
- Collaborative filtering
- Reading:
  - GroupLens
- Slides:
  - Collaborative Filtering (ISU535)
Lecture 18, Thu 06-05-08
- News filtering
- Topic detection and tracking
- Slides:
  - News Filtering and TDT (ISU535)
Lecture 19, Mon 06-09-08
- Machine learning for information retrieval
- Spam filtering
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 15
  - SpamAssassin
- Slides:
  - Machine Learning for Information Retrieval (ISU535)
Lecture 20, Tue 06-10-08
- Cross-language IR
- Slides:
  - Cross-language IR (ISU535)
- Homework 03 due
- Project 02 assigned
Lecture 21, Thu 06-12-08
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Slides:
  - Peer-to-peer Networks (ISU535)
- Project 01 due
Lecture 22, Mon 06-16-08
- Relevance feedback
- Reading:
  - MRS Chap 09
- Slides:
  - Relevance Feedback (ISU535)
Lecture 23, Tue 06-17-08
- Demos
- Final exam review
Lecture 24, Wed 06-18-08
- Student presentations
Lecture 25, Thu 06-19-08
- Student presentations
- Project 02 due
Final Exam, Mon 06-23-08
- 1-3pm, 150 FR

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