CS594/494 Information Retrieval - Spring 2003

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Click here to do your course evaluation.

Click here for a list of topics and review sheet for the Final Exam.

The final exam is scheduled for Thursday, May 8 (8:00am-10:10am).

The required textbook for this class is Modern Information Retrieval by R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto (Addison-Wesley, 1999). The textbook and Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval by M.W. Berry and M. Browne (SIAM, 1999) are both on reserve checkout in Hodges Library.

Possible online textbook suppliers are: Bookpool and Efollet.


Course Logistics - Sects. 30239 (494), 30551 (594)

When and Where:

The class meets in Claxton 206 (larger room) from 9:40am to 10:555am on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Students should be prepared to arrive early each lecture day. Announcements will not be repeated for students arriving late.

Instructor:

Michael W. Berry will be teaching this course. Previous instances of this course include: CS 494/594 - Information Processing & Management taught Fall Semester 2000 and CS 460 - Information Storage and Retrieval taught Spring Semester 1999.

The Instructor's office hours have been tentatively set to be 9:30-10:30am on Wednesday mornings (these are subject to change).

Teaching Assistant:

Lana Mironova will be the teaching assistant for CS594/494 this semester. Her office hours will be held in Claxton 121 from 10:00am to noon on Mondays.

Course Topics:

This semester we will focus on the following topics:

Week(s) Topic Covered = completed
2 IR Models Covered
1 Performance Evaluation Covered
1 Query Languages Covered
1 Query Operations Covered
1 Text Languages Covered
1 File Preparation Covered
1 Text Operations Covered
2 Indexing Covered
2 Searching Covered
1 Project Metadata Covered
1 Project Demos Covered



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