INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2014
Module 4: Monday September 22 to Sunday September 28
This module shifts our focus from the search engine as an automated
machine to the question of how the user will understand and use that
machine. The module is designed to be completed in 12 hours over 7
days. As with every module, you must complete all componentents of
this module by midnight on the evening of the indicated end date for
the module.
Module Checklist
The recommended order for completing the activities in this module is:
Talk with me by skype or phone by Wednesday September 24 if you
plan to do a student-designed project.
Check ELMS to see if you have an additional reading summary assigned to you
this week. If so, complete that summary by midnight Thursday and
submit it using ELMS.
Additional readings are assigned
to five students. All students should read the five summaries once
they are posted to ELMS, and all students other than those who wrote a
summary this week should make a comment on the discussion board about
at least one of the summaries (or about someone else's comment on one
of them).
A guest lecture by Daniel Rose on User
Experience Issues in Web Search in Marti Hearst's Fall 2005
SIMS 141 course on Search Engines at the University of
California, Berkeley.
A lecture on Generating
Snippets from Dan Jurafsky's Stanford MOOC on Natural
Language Processing (Dan and Chris were co-teaching this MOOC)
Finally, complete Project Assignment P4. Like all
assignments that you are asked to turn in, this is due at midnight on
the last day of the module.
Doug Oard
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