INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2018
Module 6: Monday March 5 to Sunday March 11

This module focused on Web search. 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 Chapter 3 of our CMS textbook.
  3. View the first reading commentary video.
  4. Read Chapter 2 of the Castillo and Davison survey.
  5. View the second reading commentary video.
  6. Read the Lalmas chapter.
  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 The Web lecture video.
  10. View the Crawling lecture video.
  11. View the Web Search lecture video.
  12. On Friday (or later), read the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
  13. Don't forget to post at least one substantive comment to this module's discussion forum.
  14. Read Project Assignment P6.
  15. Watch the exercise explanation video for Project Assignment P6.
  16. Complete Project Assignment P6 and submit your results using ELMS.
  17. 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 P6

Finally, complete Project Assignment P6. 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: Sun Mar 4 18:42:28 2018