Created: Tue 11 May 2010
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Note: "CMS" refers to the course text by Croft, Metzler, and
Strohan; "MRS" refers to the course text by Manning, Raghavan, and
Schutze. This is an approximate syllabus; it may change at any time.
- Lecture 01, Tue 05-11-10
- Overview of IS4200; overview of Information Retrieval
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- Lecture 02, Wed 05-12-10
- Evaluation in Information Retrieval
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- Lecture 03, Thu 05-13-10
- Finish evaluation
- Boolean retrieval model
- Start vector space model...
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- Homework 01 assigned
- Lecture 04, Mon 05-17-10
- Finish vector space model
- Start probabilistic models...
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- Lecture 05, Tue 05-18-10
- BM25
- Start language models...
- Start smoothing...
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- Lecture 06, Wed 05-19-10
- Finish smoothing
- Finish language models
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- Lecture 07, Thu 05-20-10
- Start statistics of text (Zipf's & Heap's Laws)...
- Least-squares line fitting
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- Homework 01 due
- Project 01 assigned
- Lecture 08, Mon 05-24-10
- Finish statistics of text
- Start text processing...
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- Lecture 09, Tue 05-25-10
- Finish text processing...
- Indexing
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- Homework 02 assigned
- Lecture 10, Wed 05-26-10
- Start compression...
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- Lecture 11, Thu 05-27-10
- Lecture 12, Tue 06-01-10
- Lecture 13, Wed 06-02-10
- Lecture 14, Thu 06-03-10
- Finish web retrieval
- Start metasearch: data fusion
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- Project 01 due
- Lecture 15, Mon 06-07-10
- Lecture 16, Tue 06-08-10
- Metasearch: on-line learning
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- Project 02 assigned
- Lecture 17, Wed 06-09-10
- Metasearch: collection fusion (distributed retrieval)
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- Lecture 18, Thu 06-10-10
- Start clustering...
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- Lecture 19, Mon 06-14-10
- Finish clustering
- Collaborative filtering
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- Lecture 20, Tue 06-15-10
- Machine learning for information retrieval
- Spam filtering
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- Homework 03 due
- Lecture 21, Wed 06-16-10
- News filtering
- Topic detection and tracking
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- Lecture 22, Thu 06-17-10
- Cross-language IR
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- Lecture 23, Mon 06-21-10
- Peer-to-peer networks
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- Lecture 22, Tue 06-22-10
- Start supplementary topics...
- question answering
- music retrieval
- summarization
- machine translation
- Lecture 23, Wed 06-23-10
- Continue supplementary topics
- Lecture 24, Thu 06-24-10
- Finish supplementary topics
- Multimedia IR
- Final Exam, Mon 06-28-10
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