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Winter 2008

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Intelligent Information Retrieval

Lectures and Reading

Date
Lecture Notes and Reading Material
Jan 7
Overview and Background
  • Read Chapters 1 and 8 of the IR Book.
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    Jan 14
    Document Indexing and Analysis
  • Read Chapters 4 and 5 of the IR Book.
  • Read the Description of Porter's Stemming Algorithm
    • Jan 21
    Data Structure and File Organization for IR
  • Read Chapter 2 of the IR Book.
  • Here is good site where you can find descriptions of various string search algorithms along with animation and implementation details.
  • An article by Mark Nelson on Fast String Searching With Suffix Trees.
    • Jan 28
    Indexing Models and Term Weighting
  • Read Chapters 6 and 7 of the IR Book.
  • Read the paper Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web by N. Gudivada, et. al.
  • Read the paper Do HTML Tags Flag Semantic Content? by J. Hodgson.
    • Feb 4
    Retrieval Models and Ranking Systems
  • Read Chapters 7 and 11 of the IR Book.
  • Read the paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page.
  • Read the paper Context in Web Search by Steve Lawrence.
    • Feb 11
    (1) Implementation Notes on Vector Space Retrieval
    (2) Relevance Feedback; Info, Filtering; Query Operations
  • Read Chapter 9 of the  IR Book.
  • Read the paper Understanding User Goals in Web Search by Rose and Levinson, Yahoo! Inc..
  • Read the paper Text Learning and Related Intelligent Agents by Dunja Mladenic.
  • Project Proposals Due: We. Feb. 13
    • Feb 18
    (1) Clustering Techniques; Clustering in IR
    (2) Text Categorization
    (3) Supplemental Notes on Clustering (Based on Notes from Ed Fox's IR Course at Virginia Tech.)
     
  • Read Chapters 16 and 17 of the  IR Book.
  • Read Chapter 13 and Sections 14.1-14,2 of the  IR Book.

                 Read the following papers for next week:
  • Hyperlink Analysis for the Web by Monika R. Henzinger.
  • NewScientist article Google's search for meaning and the associated paper Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google by Cilibrasi and Vitanyi.
  • Sponsored Search: Is Money a Motivator for Providing Relevant Results? By Bernard Jansen and Amanda Spink.
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    Feb 25
    IR on the World Wide Web: Hyperlink Analysis; PageRank
     
  • Read Chapters 19-21 of the   IR Book.

                 Read the following papers to be discussed on March 5:

  • CiteSeer: An Autonomous Web Agent for Automatic Retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications by Kurt Bollacker, et al.
  • Toward a PeopleWeb by Raghu Ramakrishnan and Andrew Tomkins of Yahoo! Research.
  • A Community-Based Approach to Personalizing Web Search, by Barry Smyth.
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    Mar 3
    IR on the World Wide Web: Intelligent Web Agents; Personalized Search

                 Review the following papers to be discussed next week:

  • Web Mining: Information and Pattern Discovery on the WWW by R. Cooley, et al.
  • Web Mining Research: A Survey by R. Kosala and H. Blockeel.
  • TétraFusion: Information Discovery on the Internet by F. Crimmins, et al.
    • Mar 10
    Web Mining and Its Applications
     
    Final Projects Due - Fri. March 14, 11:59 PM
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