CSCE 5200 Information Retrieval and Web Search

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syllabus

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Instructor: Rada Mihalcea, Research Park F228, email: rada at cs.unt.edu
TA: Veronica Perez-Rosas, vp0091 at unt.edu
Class hours: TTh 12:30-01:50pm
Instructor office hours: Th 03:00-05:00pm or by appointment
TA office hours: T 11am-12pm; Th 2-3pm
Course description: This course will cover traditional material, as well as recent advances in Information Retrieval (IR), the study of indexing, processing, and querying textual data. Basic retrieval models, algorithms, and IR system implementations will be covered. The course will also address more advanced topics in "intelligent" IR, including Natural Language Processing techniques, and "smart" Web agents.


class notes

Date Lecture Reading material NB
01/17/2012 Course overview (ppt) - -
01/19/2012 Introduction to IR models and methods [ppt] - -
01/24/2012 Short Perl tutorial [ppt] One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section] -
01/26/2012 Short Perl tutorial [ppt] One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section] -
01/31/2012 Short Perl tutorial [ppt]
Text processing [ppt]
Porter stemmer
Chap.2: The term vocabulary & postings lists
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02/02/2012 Text processing [ppt] Porter stemmer
Chap.2: The term vocabulary & postings lists
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02/07/2012 Text properties [ppt] Chap.2: The term vocabulary & postings lists Assignment 1 issued
02/09/2012 Web Spidering [ppt]
Practical problems in web spidering [ppt]
Chap.5: Index compression, sect.5.1
Chap.20: Web crawling and indexes
Optional reading: Baeza-Yates chapter 6.3
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02/14/2012 Boolean model and extensions [ppt] Chap.1: Boolean retrieval -
02/16/2012 Vector space model [ppt] Chap.6: Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model -
02/21/2012 Vector space model [ppt] Chap.6: Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model -
02/23/2012 Term weighting schemes
Chap.6: Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model
[Sparck-Jones] Term weigthing approaches, pg. 323
Assignment 1 due.
Assignment 2 issued




assignments



readings

  • (required) Introduction to Information Retrieval
    (online version available) Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze
    Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • (recommended) Readings in Information Retrieval
    K.Sparck Jones and P. Willett
    Morgan Kaufmann, 1997
  • (recommended) Modern Information Retrieval
    Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
    Addison-Wesley, 1999


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