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: Ziming Zhang, ZimingZhang at my.unt.edu
Class hours: TTh 12:30-01:50pm
Instructor office hours: T 03:00-05:00pm or by appointment
TA office hours: Th 02:30-04:30pm
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

Note 1: Unless otherwise indicated, all the classes will take place in B192 at 12:30pm. Please pay attention to classes that take place in a different room (e.g., F223) or at a different time (e.g., 11am).

Note 2: Protected documents and videos are available here

Date Lecture Reading material NB
01/15/2013 Course overview (pptx) - -
01/17/2013 Introduction to IR models and methods [pptx] - -
01/22/2013 Text properties [pptx] Chap.2: The term vocabulary & postings lists -
01/24/2013 (11am) Short Perl tutorial [pptx] One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section] -
01/24/2013 Text processing [pptx] Porter stemmer
Chap.2: The term vocabulary & postings lists
Assignment 1 issued
01/29/2013 Web Spidering [pptx]
Practical problems in web spidering [pptx]
Chap.5: Index compression, sect.5.1
Chap.20: Web crawling and indexes
Optional reading: Baeza-Yates chapter 6.3
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01/30/2013 (11am, F219) Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing at Samsung, Speaker: Po-Hsiang Lai, Gabriel Nicolae - -
01/31/2013 (11am) Short Perl tutorial [pptx] One of the tutorials below [see the "Links" section] -
01/31/2013 Boolean model and extensions [pptx] Chap.1: Boolean retrieval -
02/05/2013 Vector space model [pptx] Chap.6: Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model -
02/07/2013 Vector space model [pptx]
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
02/11/2013 (4:30pm, F223) Information Retrieval and Social Media, Speaker: Douglas Oard - -
02/12/2013 Alternative IR models. [pptx] Chap.11: Probabilistic IR
Chap.18: LSA
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02/14/2013 (11am) Keyword Extraction (pptx) - -
02/14/2013 IR evaluation and IR test collections. [pptx] Chap.8: Evaluation in information retrieval
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02/19/2013 Exam I preparation - -
02/21/2013 Exam I - -
02/26/2013 Relevance feedback. [pptx] Chap.9: Relevance feedback and query expansion
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02/28/2013 (11am) Question Answering [ppt]
Check the TREC Q&A site -
02/28/2013 Relevance feedback. [pptx] Chap.9: Relevance feedback and query expansion
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03/05/2013 Text classification [pptx] [CM] Chapter 13. Assignment 3 issued.
03/07/2013 Text classification [pptx]
[CM] Chapter 13. Assignment 2 due.
03/08/2013 (11am, F223) Psycholinguistics, Speaker: James Pennebaker - -
03/12/2013 Spring break - -
03/14/2013 Spring break - -
03/19/2013 Link analysis. HITS. PageRank. [pptx] [CM] Chapter 21.
Page L. et. al Page Rank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web
Also check this page.
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03/21/2013 Topic Sensitive PageRank Haveliwala. "Topic-Sensitive PageRank" [pdf] Assignment 3 due on 03/22
03/26/2013 Exam II All the material studied so far (papers/seminars included) -
04/04/2013 (11am, F223) Machine Learning, Speaker: Ray Mooney - -
04/19/2013 Project materials due. - -




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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