21:230/6K:233 Text Retrieval
Spring 2005
Thursdays: 2:30 - 5:15; 3092 Main Library

Professor Padmini Srinivasan
email: my email address is in this link
School of Library and Information Science
Department of Management Sciences
College of Nursing (courtesy)
Department of Computer Science (courtesy)
Office: 3067 Main Library (335-5708)
Office Hours: 3067 Main Lib.: T,Thu, 1:00 - 2:00

Welcome to our course homepage!

Contents

Text Book

There is no required text book for this course. Instead we will read current research papers. A classic book available online, that you may refer to, is: van Rijsbergen, Keith. Information Retrieval, 1979.

Course Description

Information retrieval is at the foundation of a wide variety of applications that we see around us from spam filters to cross lingual document retrieval systems. This course will examine information retrieval systems, their design, underlying models and algorithms, and methods for assessing their performance. We will also study select applications that rely on information retrieval including, as for example, information extraction and text mining. Current research literature will be studied.

Students are expected to participate in class discussions, and complete all class assignments and readings on time. Class assignments are due at the beginning of the specified class period.

Evaluation Points

Item Points
Assignments 30%
Exam 1, (Thursday, April 21), class period 25%
Quizzes, (to be announced the class before) 10%
Class participation (through the semester) 10%
Project 25%
Project Description, 1 page due: March 10, 2005
Final Report, due: approx. May 5, 2005
Presentations (last week or so. Exam date: May 12, 9:45am -)

Course Outline (Dynamic)

Note that as we proceed with the course, readings will be dynamically added at relevant points. These readings will be identified on this web page. Thus make sure that you check this web page prior to each class. You are expected to study the assigned papers and be prepared to discuss them in class. Papers will be assigned to individual students who will be responsible for presenting a brief overview and leading the class discussion.

This outline will be extended as we proceed with the course.



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