LBSC 796/INFM 718R: Syllabus (Spring, 2006)

Week Date Topic Slides Readings Homework
1January 30 Introduction [ppt][pdf] [readings]
2February 6 Evaluation [ppt][pdf] [readings] Homework 1 due (part 1)
3February 13 Boolean and Vector Space Models [ppt][pdf] [readings] Homework 1 due (part 2)
4February 20 Language Models [ppt][pdf] [readings]
5February 27 Indexing [ppt][pdf] [readings] Homework 2 due
6March 6 Representing the Meaning of Documents [ppt][pdf] [readings]
7March 13Midterm
March 21Spring break!
8March 27 Relevance Feedback [ppt][pdf] [readings]
9April 3 User Interaction [ppt][pdf] [readings]
10April 10 Clustering, Classifying, and Filtering [ppt][pdf] [readings]
11April 17 Multimedia and Cross-Language Retrieval [ppt][pdf] [readings]
12April 24 Question Answering [ppt][pdf] [readings]
13May 1Project working session
14May 8Project presentations
15May 15Final

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