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LBSC 796/INFM 718R
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2007
Syllabus

For each session this syllabus shows the top-level topics that we plan to cover, chapters in the text and the lecture notes, links to other required readings that should be read before the indicated class, and assignments that students are required to complete before the indicated class. All homework and programming assignments are due at the beginning of class (late arrival in class will not change the time when the assignment was due). The slides link will take you to the Powerpoint slides for the indicated session, and a link to video for each session will be provided when possible (sometimes the RealVideo recording does not work).
Session Date Topic Required
Reading 		Recommended
Reading 		Assignment
Due Today 		Slides Video Activity Guest
1
Sep 10
 Structure of IR systems
1
1
  
1
      
2
Sep 17
5:30-8:00 PM
 Evidence from Content
2
2
H1
2
2
 Project 1 overview  
3
Sep 24
5:45-8:45 PM
 Ranked retrieval
3
3
H2
3
3
 Project 2 overview  
4
Oct 1
 Interaction
4
4
P (on Oct 3)
4
   Project 3 overview Pengyi Zhang
5
Oct 8
 Evaluation
5
5
H3
5
5
 Project team kickoff  
6
Oct 15
 Web search
6
6
H4
6
6
 Semantic Web visioning Jen Golbeck
7
Oct 22
 Evidence from behavior
7
7
T1
7
      
8
Oct 29
 Scanned documents
8
8
  
8
8
   Dave Doermann
9
Nov 5
 Evidence from metadata
9
9
T2
9
9
    
10
Nov 12
 Filtering
10
10
T3
10
10
 System walkthroughs  
11
Nov 19
 Speech and music
11
11
  
11
11
 Research project updates  
12
Nov 26
 Cross-language search
12
12
  
12
12
 Interface demonstrations  
13
Dec 3
 Photographs and video
13
13
T5 (on Dec 5)
13
13
    
14
Dec 10
 Project reports    
T6 (on Dec 14)
14
14a, 14b
 Final presentations TBA
15
Dec 17
6:00-8:15
 Final Exam              

Key:
H = homework assignment (individual)
P = project plan
T = Team project

Doug Oard
Last modified: Sep 15 2007