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CS 430
Information Discovery
Fall 2001
Syllabus |
This preliminary syllabus can be expected to change as the course progresses.
Class Formats
Classes are divided into two formats.
- Lectures
- Each week there will be two conventional lectures in usual format.
PowerPoint slides will be available on the web.
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- Discussions
- Class discussions on Wednesday evenings will be around readings from the
text book or other papers to be read before
the class. It is essential that that
everybody comes to class well prepared.
Week 1
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Thursday 8/30 |
Lecture 1 |
Overview of information discovery |
Week 2
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/4 |
Lecture 2 |
Basic concepts of information retrieval |
| Wednesday 9/5 |
Discussion 1 |
Inverted files [reading] |
| Thursday 9/6 |
Lecture 3 |
Inverted files |
Week 3
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/11 |
Lecture 4 |
Data structures for information retrieval |
| Wednesday 9/12 |
Discussion 2 |
Lexical analysis and stoplists [reading] |
| Thursday 9/13 |
Lecture 5 |
Library catalogs, MARC cataloguing |
Week 4
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/18 |
Lecture 6 |
Library catalogs, Dublin Core |
| Wednesday 9/19 |
Introduction to Perl 1 |
[No discussion class] |
| Thursday 9/20 |
Lecture 7 |
Automatic extraction of catalog records |
| Friday 9/21 |
Assignment 1 due |
|
Week 5
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 9/25 |
Lecture 8 |
Vector methods |
| Wednesday 9/26 |
Discussion 3 |
Stemming [reading] |
| Thursday 9/27 |
Lecture 9 |
Term weighting and ranking |
Week 6
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/2 |
Lecture 10 |
Cranfield and TREC |
| Wednesday 10/3 |
Introduction to Perl 2 |
[No discussion class] |
| Thursday 10/4 |
Lecture 11 |
Evaluation of retrieval effectiveness |
Week 7
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/9 |
[fall break] |
|
| Wednesday 10/10 |
Discussion 4 |
Dublin Core [reading] |
| Thursday 10/11 |
Lecture 12 |
Extending the Boolean model |
| Friday 10/12 |
Assignment 2 due |
|
Week 8
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/16 |
Lecture 13 |
NSDL case study |
| Wednesday 10/17 |
Discussion 5 |
User interfaces [reading] |
| Thursday 10/18 |
Lecture 14 |
Usability 1 |
Week 9
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/23 |
Lecture 15 |
Usability 2 |
| Wednesday 10/24 |
Discussion 6 |
Ranking methods [reading] |
| Thursday 10/25 |
Lecture 16 |
Thesaurus examples |
Week 10
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 10/30 |
Lecture 17 |
Probabilistic information retrieval |
| Wednesday 10/31 |
Midterm examination |
|
| Thursday 11/1 |
Lecture 18 |
Guest lecture: Carl Lagoze, Distributed
information retrieval |
Week 11
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Monday 11/5 |
Assignment 3 due |
|
| Tuesday 11/6 |
Lecture 19 |
Web crawlers |
| Wednesday11/7 |
Discussion 7 |
Google [reading] |
| Thursday 11/8 |
Lecture 20 |
Web search systems |
Week 12
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/13 |
Lecture 21 |
Non-textual materials 1 |
| Wednesday 11/14 |
Discussion 8 |
Informedia [reading] |
| Thursday 11/15 |
Lecture 22 |
Non-textual materials 2 |
Week 13
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/20 |
Lecture 23 |
Query refinement / Latent semantic analysis |
| Wednesday 11/21 |
[break] |
|
| Thursday 11/22 |
[break] |
|
Week 14
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 11/27 |
Lecture 24 |
Cluster analysis 1 |
| Wednesday 11/28 |
Discussion 9 |
Thesaurus construction [reading] |
| Thursday 11/29 |
Lecture 25 |
Cluster analysis 2 and thesaurus construction |
Week 15
| Date |
Event |
Topic |
| Tuesday 12/4 |
Lecture 26 |
[no lecture] |
| Wednesday 12/5 |
Discussion 10 |
Clustering [reading] |
| Thursday 12/6 |
Lecture 27 |
Automatic classification and review |
| Friday 12/7 |
Assignment 4 due |
|
Examinations
| Date |
Event |
| Friday 12/14 |
Final examination, Phillips 101, 9:00 to 10:30. |
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William Y. Arms
(wya@cs.cornell.edu)
Last changed: December 12, 2001