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• Start thinking about your team: In a few weeks, for HW3 and HW4, students have to make teams of 3. Everyone does that by adding in Dropbox a file "team_X_Yabc.txt" containing the three names of students in the team, including the owner of the Dropbox folder. For example if one's name in Michael Jordan, and the teammates are "Scottie Pippen" and "Dennis Rodman", the file would be called "team_M_Jordan.txt" containing three names
• Michael Jordan
• Scottie Pippen
• Dennis Rodman

• HW1 posted
  We are mainly supporting ElasticSearch, so we are encouraging students to use it.

• Please use the piazza for all questions regarding material, assignments, due dates, data issues, programming issues, etc. That is, do not use the direct email to TAs or Instructors for these questions.
  Personal/private matters, such as availability, delays,  grades, term projects or other advanced material, etc, should be discussed by email.

• Schedule
  

• Instructors, TAs, and Office Hours
  

• Dropboxx sync.
  
• To make thinks easier on me, consider your Dropbox updates: if you know you will work on code/assignment for several hours, please "Pause Syncing" for that time, so that we dont get bombarded with many tiny Dropbox updates. Make sure to "Resume Syncing" when you are done for the session.
• DO NOT PUT DATA (OR INDEXES OF DATA) ON YOUR CS6200_X_Yabcd DROPBOX  FOLDER - WE WILL DELETE ANY DATA/INDEX FILES. Put data somewhere else on your HDD

• Set up Dropbox
  Sign up for Dropbox if you dont have an account already
  Create a *code only* folder inside Dropbox on your working machine (in preferred location) named CS6200_X_Y with X=First name, and Y=last name. For example if one's name is Michael Jordan, the folder would be called "CS6200_Michael_Jordan"
  This folder is for code, results, reports, pdfs, notes - BUT NOT FOR DATA. Keep data on a separate location on your HDD.
  Share this folder via Dropbox with "[ CS6200Summer2020@gmail.com]". Do not share a Dropbox link, but rather share the folder for editing. Note that we are not using this addresses for email, so we wont read any emails sent to it.
  
• Make sure your files (not data) are in Dropbox! While you have done the demos, you need all files in Dropbox (code, graphs, plots, qrel - NOT DATA) to get the points.
  
  
• Please complete the student information and put it as a file in your dropbox folder

• Piazza https://piazza.com/ccs.neu.edu/spring2020/cs6200

• Welcome to CS 6200- Information Retrieval. Bookmark this page! General structure of the course:
• Seven modules (2 weeks each) with readings, lecture notes, slides, recorded lectures, and of course a homework.
• Assignments (homeworks) are focused on programing IR techniques.
  
• Mandatory: You are expected to participate at office hours; either to discuss your difficulty with the assignment, or to demo the code and results for grading.
  
• Each assignment is graded on the spot by a TA when you have it working. We wont be picky with the grading, but some assignments can be quite challenging. Often the TA will point to something that needs more work before you can get full credit.