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LBSC 878 - Doctoral Seminar in Information Storage and Retrieval
Spring 2005
Syllabus

For each week this syllabus shows the top-level topics that we plan to cover. The reading titles are links to the reading list which describes the reading assignment for each week in detail. The assignment titles are links to the assignment that is due at the beginning of that class. Where present, the notes link will take you to the handout and/or slides that we plan to use in class that week. Adobe Acrobat Reader version 7.0 may be needed to view some of them.
Week Date Topics Presenter Read
before class 		Assignment Due Notes Guests
1
Wednesday
Jan 26
Overview,
Relevance
 Oard
White
[Available]
  
[Available]
 Dagobert Soergel
2
Feb 7
Relevance critique,
Knowledge Representation
 White
Oard
[Available]
Survey Area Choice
[Available]
 Jim Hendler
3
Feb 14
KR critique,
Indexing
 Templeton
Oard
[Available]
  
[Available]
 Jimmy Lin
4
Feb 21
Indexing critique,
Query formulation
 Liu
White
[Available]
Research Paper Topic
[Available]
  
 
Feb 28
CANCELLED -- SNOW!
          
5
Mar 7
QF critique,
Matching
 Massey
Oard
[Available]
Survey Assigned Reading
[Available]
 Mark Sanderson
6
Mar 14
Matching critique,
Browsing
 Fleming
White
[Available]
  
[Available]
  
 
Mar 21
** Spring Break **
          
7
Mar 28
Browsing critique 1,
Browsing critique 2,
Evaluation
 Reuter
Wu
Oard
[Available]
Research Paper
Outline
[Available]
 Ian Soboroff
8
Apr 4
Evaluation critique
Preparing Research Papers
Zhang
White
[Available]
  
[Available]
 Noriko Kando
9
Apr 11
Video retrieval
Speech Retrieval
Looking Back
Wu
Liu
Wang
[Available]
Research Paper
First Draft
[Available]
 Jianqiang Wang
10
Apr 18
Cross-cultural usability
Search as entertainment
QA
Massey
Reuter
Zhang
[Available]
  
[Available]
 Allison Druin
11
Apr 25
Unsegmented Oral History
Relevance for Browsing
Liu
Wu
[Available]
Research Paper
Second Draft
[Available]
  
12
May 2
Meaning negotiation
Research Presentations
Zhang
Oard
[Available]
  
[Available]
  
13
May 9
Cultural influences
Adaptive UI
Massey
Fleming
[Available]
  
[Available]
  
14
May 16
Childrens Book Relevance
Link-based Search
Reuter
Fleming
[Available]
Final Paper
[Available]
  
Last modified: Tue Jan 18 22:13:13 2005
Doug Oard oard@glue.umd.edu