INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2015
Module 11: Monday November 9 to Sunday November 15

This module is focused on searching content in languages that the user may not know, or may not know well. 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:
  1. View the introductory video for this module.
  2. Read the McNamee and Mayfield paper.
  3. View the first reading commentary video.
  4. Read Chapter 3 of the Nie book.
  5. View the second reading commentary video.
  6. Read the Petrelli et al paper.
  7. View the third reading commentary video.
  8. 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.
  9. View the CLIR lecture video.
  10. View the Dictionary-Based CLIR lecture video.
  11. View the Corpus-Based CLIR lecture video.
  12. View the Interactive CLIR lecture video.
  13. On Friday (or later), read the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
  14. Don't forget to post at least one substantive comment to this module's discussion forum.
  15. Read Project Assignment P11.
  16. Watch the exercise explanation video for Project Assignment P11.
  17. Complete Project Assignment P11 and submit your results using ELMS.
  18. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

This week we have three reading assignments.

Summaries of Additional Readings

 Additional readings are assigned to five students. All students should read the five summaries once they are posted to ELMS.

Videos

Here are the videos for this module:

Project Assignment P11

Finally, complete Project Assignment P11. Like all assignments that you are asked to turn in, this is due at midnight on the last day of the module.
Doug Oard
Last modified: Fri Dec 15 01:26:02 2017