CS 430 Information Discovery Fall 2001 Professor William Y. Arms Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:20 to 1:10 pm Olin 155 Discussion class: Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., Hollister Hall 110 3 Credit Hours

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Course Description

This course looks at the methods used to search for and discover information in digital libraries and web information systems. Methods that are covered include information retrieval, which includes techniques for searching, browsing and filtering information, descriptive metadata, the use of classification systems and thesauruses, and web search systems.

Basic Information

Lectures:	Tuesday and Thursday 12:20-1:10, Olin Hall 155
Discussion classes:	Wednesday 7:30 to 8:30, Hollister Hall 101
Instructor:	William Arms, wya@cs.cornell.edu, Upson 5159, 255-3046
Instructor's Office Hours:	Tuesday 11:00 to noon and Wednesday 2:30 to 3:30 or by appointment
Instructor's Assistant:	Rosemary Adessa, rosemary@cs.cornell.edu, Upson 5147, 255-9555
Teaching Assistant 1:	Manpreet Singh, manpreet@cs.cornell.edu
Teaching Assistant 2:	Sid Anand, sanand@cs.cornell.edu
Teaching Assistant 3:	Martin Guerrero, gmartin@cs.cornell.edu

To communicate with the course team, please send email to the entire team: 

        cs430@cs.cornell.edu

Course Structure

• The course consists of:
      2 lectures per week
      1 discussion class per week
          readings before each discussion class
      4 homework assignments
      mid-term examination
      final examination

• Readings will be assigned to prepare for the discussion classes.  Contribution to the discussion classes is one of the factors that will be used to determine the final grade.

Text Book

William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval Data Structures and Algorithms.  Prentice Hall, 1992.

Assumed Background

Computing Experiment

Unix and NT computers with appropriate software are available in the Computer Science Undergraduate Lab, Upson Hall Room 315/317. MEng students may also use the MEng computing lab.

Assignments and Grading

The course grade will be based on course assignments, participation in the discussion classes, and the examinations (mid-term and final).  All assignments are individual assignments. The weightings given to these components are expected to be as follows, but these weightings may be changed:

Individual assignments	33%
Class participation	33%
Examinations	33%

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Last changed: September 11, 2001