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Winter 2006

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Intelligent Information Retrieval

Lectures and Reading

Date
Lecture Notes and Reading Material
Jan 3
Overview and Background

  • Read Chapters 1 of the Text (FOA by R. Belew)
  • Read Chapter 1 of Information Retrieval (van Rijsbergen)
    • Jan 10
    Document Indexing and Analysis

  • Read Chapter 2 of Information Retrieval (van Rijsbergen)
  • Read the Description of Porter's Stemming Algorithm
  • Read the articles: 
    (1) What Do People Want from Information Retrieval? by Bruce Croft; and
    (2) Seeking Better Web Searches - Scientific American, January 2005.
    • Jan 17
    Data Structure and File Organization for IR

  • Read Chapters 2 of the Text (FOA by R. Belew)
  • Read Chapter 4 of Information Retrieval (van Rijsbergen)
  • 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 24
    Indexing Models and Term Weighting

  • Read Chapters 3 of the Text (FOA by R. Belew)
  • 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.
    • Jan 31
    Retrieval Models and Ranking Systems

  • Read the paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page.
  • Read the paper Text Learning and Related Intelligent Agents by Dunja Mladenic.
    • Feb 7
    (1) Implementation Notes on Vector Space Retrieval
    (2) Relevance Feedback; Info, Filtering; Query Operations

  • Read Section 4.1-4.2 of the Text (FOA by R. Belew)
  • Read the paper Understanding User Goals in Web Search by Rose and Levinson, Yahoo! Inc..
  • Read the paper Context in Web Search by Steve Lawrence.
  • Project Proposals Due: Thursday Feb. 9
    • Feb 14
    (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 the following papers to be discussed on Feb 21:
  • 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.
    • Feb 21
    IR on the World Wide Web: Hyperlink Analysis; PageRank

    Read the following papers to be discussed on March 1:

  • CiteSeer: An Autonomous Web Agent for Automatic Retrieval and Identification of Interesting Publications by Kurt Bollacker, et al.
  • Read the paper Fab: Content-Based, Collaborative Recommendation by Marko Balabanovic and Yoav Shoham.
    • Feb 28
    IR on the World Wide Web: Intelligent Web Agents; Personalized Search

    Please review the following papers to be discussed on March 8:

  • 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 7
    Web Mining and Its Applications
    Mar 13
    Final Projects Due
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