| Date | Description | Materials | Other Reading |
| Tu 1/26 | Course Overview |
syllabus intro |
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| Th 1/28 | Applications of IR | ||
| Tu 2/2 | Methods Homework 1 out |
ppt | IIR Ch. 1 Winston's ML slides |
| Th 2/4 | Boolean IR and Data Structures Term Vocabulary and Posting Lists |
ppt |
IIR Ch. 2, 3 |
| Tu 2/9 | PAT Trees Discussion of Homework 1 Vector Models 1 |
ppt ppt1 |
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| Th 2/11 | Vector Models 2 | ppt2 | IIR Ch. 6 |
| Mon 2/15 | Homework 1A due | ||
| Tu 2/16 | Precision and Recall Query Expansion |
ppt ppt |
IIR Ch. 8 |
| Th 2/18 | Evaluation | IIR Ch. 8 | |
| Mon 2/22 | Homework 1B due | ||
| Th 2/23 | Evaluation (cont'd) Homework 2 out |
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| Th 2/25 | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion | IIR Ch. 9 | |
| Tu 3/2 | Flat Clustering | IIR Ch. 16 | |
| Th 3/4 | Hierarchical Clustering | IIR Ch. 17 | |
| W 3/8 | Homework 2, Part 1 due | ||
| Th 3/9 | Supervised IR | ppt | IIR Ch. 13, 14 |
| Th 3/11 | Lexical Ambiguity Resolution | ||
| Tu 3/16 | Models for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution | ppt |
Yarowsky (1995) |
| Homework 2, Part 2 due | |||
| Th 3/18 | Lexical Ambiguity Resolution (cont'd) | ||
| Tu 3/23 | Text Classification | IIR Ch. 12 | |
| Th 3/25 | Support Vector Machines Visualization |
IIR Ch. 15 | |
| Tu 3/30 | Spring Break Day | ||
| W 3/31 | Homework 3 due | ||
| Th 4/1 | Visualization | pdf1 pdf2 |
Church and Helfman (1993) |
| Tu 4/6 | Web Client Programming | book ppt |
IIR Ch. 20 |
| Th 4/8 | Web Crawling | IIR Ch. 19 | |
| Tu 4/13 | Harvest Architecture | Bowman et al. (1994) | |
| Homework 4 due | |||
| Th 4/15 | Semantic Web | ||
| Tu 4/20 | Link Analysis and Page Rank | IIR Ch. 21 | |
| Th 4/22 | Spring Break Day | ||
| Tu 4/27 | Page Rank (cont'd) Personalization |
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| Tu 4/27 | Collaborative Filtering Web Agents Future of the Web |
ppt ppt ppt |
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| Tu 5/4 | Final Review Session, 5pm | ||
| W 5/5 | Final Exam, 2-5pm | ||
| Th 5/13 | Final Projects due |