IS4200/CS6200 10X1: Syllabus

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
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 1
- Slides:
  - IS4200 intro slides
  - CMS intro slides
Lecture 02, Wed 05-12-10
- Evaluation in Information Retrieval
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 8
  - MRS Chap 8
- Slides:
Lecture 03, Thu 05-13-10
- Finish evaluation
- Boolean retrieval model
- Start vector space model...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 7
  - MRS Chap 1
  - MRS Chap 6
- Slides:
- Homework 01 assigned
Lecture 04, Mon 05-17-10
- Finish vector space model
- Start probabilistic models...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 7
  - MRS Chap 12
- Slides:
Lecture 05, Tue 05-18-10
- BM25
- Start language models...
- Start smoothing...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 7
  - MRS Chap 12
- Slides:
Lecture 06, Wed 05-19-10
- Finish smoothing
- Finish language models
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 7
  - MRS Chap 12
  - Retrieval Examples
- Slides:
Lecture 07, Thu 05-20-10
- Start statistics of text (Zipf's & Heap's Laws)...
- Least-squares line fitting
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 4.1, 4.2
  - MRS Chap 5
- Slides:
- Homework 01 due
- Project 01 assigned
Lecture 08, Mon 05-24-10
- Finish statistics of text
- Start text processing...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 4
  - MRS Chap 2
- Slides:
Lecture 09, Tue 05-25-10
- Finish text processing...
- Indexing
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 5
  - MRS Chap 4
- Slides:
- Homework 02 assigned
Lecture 10, Wed 05-26-10
- Start compression...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 5
  - MRS Chap 5
- Slides:
  - IS4200 Compression
  - CMS indexing slides (inlcludes compression)
  - MRS index compression slides
Lecture 11, Thu 05-27-10
- Finish compression
Lecture 12, Tue 06-01-10
- Start web retrieval
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 4
  - MRS Chap 19
  - MRS Chap 20
  - MRS Chap 21
- Slides:
  - IS4200 WWW IR
  - CMS text processing slides (includes web features)
  - MRS web basics I slides
  - MRS web basics II slides
  - MRS web crawling and indexes slides
  - MRS link analysis slides
- Homework 02 due
Lecture 13, Wed 06-02-10
- Web retrieval
Lecture 14, Thu 06-03-10
- Finish web retrieval
- Start metasearch: data fusion
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 10.5
- Slides:
  - Metasearch (IS4200)
- Project 01 due
Lecture 15, Mon 06-07-10
- Finish metasearch: data fusion
- Homework 03 assigned
Lecture 16, Tue 06-08-10
- Metasearch: on-line learning
- Slides:
  - The Hedge Algorithm for Metasearch (IS4200)
- Project 02 assigned
Lecture 17, Wed 06-09-10
- Metasearch: collection fusion (distributed retrieval)
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 10.5
- Slides:
  - Distributed IR (IS4200)
Lecture 18, Thu 06-10-10
- Start clustering...
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 9.2
  - MRS Chap 16
  - MRS Chap 27
  - Star Clustering
- Slides:
  - Clustering (IS4200)
Lecture 19, Mon 06-14-10
- Finish clustering
- Collaborative filtering
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 10.4.2
  - GroupLens
- Slides:
  - Collaborative Filtering (IS4200)
Lecture 20, Tue 06-15-10
- Machine learning for information retrieval
- Spam filtering
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 9.1
  - MRS Chap 15
  - SpamAssassin
- Slides:
  - Machine Learning for Information Retrieval (IS4200)
- Homework 03 due
Lecture 21, Wed 06-16-10
- News filtering
- Topic detection and tracking
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 10.4.1
- Slides:
  - Social Search (CMS)
  - News Filtering and TDT (IS4200)
Lecture 22, Thu 06-17-10
- Cross-language IR
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 6.4
- Slides:
  - Cross-language IR (IS4200)
Lecture 23, Mon 06-21-10
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Reading:
  - CMS Chap 10.5.2
- Slides:
  - Peer-to-peer Networks (IS4200)
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
- 8 -- 10am, 335 Shillman

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