Date

Area

Topic

Slides Notes

Readings

Tue - Aug. 22

Introduction to Information Retrieval

Overview

Slides1

Thu - Aug. 24

Basic Concepts of Information Retrieval (I)

Tue - Aug. 29

Basic Concepts of Information Retrieval (II)

Thu - Aug. 31

Retrieval Models (I): 

 Boolean Model

Tue - Sep. 5

(Hw 1 Out)

Retrieval Models (II): 

 Vector Space Model

(Homework 1)

Thu - Sep. 7

Retrieval Models (III):  

Latent Semantic Indexing

Tue - Sep. 12

Relevance Feedback

Slides4

MIR 5.1-5.5, 10.7

Xu, TOIS'97

Thu - Sep. 14

Introduction to Probability & Statistics (I)

 Slides5(One Per Page)

 Slides5(Two Per Page)

Please check out the reference page of the slides (optional)

Tue. - Sep. 19

Introduction to Probability & Statistics (II)

Thu. - Sep. 21

(Hw 1 Due)

Introduction to Probability & Statistics (III)

Tue. - Sep. 26

Retrieval Models (IV):

Language Models

 Slides6(One Per Page)

 Slides6(Two Per Page)

 Lafferty SIGIR 2002

Zhai SIGIR 2001;

Thu. - Sep. 28

Retrieval Models (V):

Language Models (Cont'd)

Tue. - Oct. 2

Retrieval Models (VI):

Language Models (Cont'd)

Thu. - Oct. 5

(Course Project Topics Out)

Applications of Information Retrieval 

Text Categorization I

Task Definition and KNN

Slides6(One PerPage)

 Slides6(Two Per Page)

Thu. -Oct. 12   (Hw 2 Out)   

Text Categorization II

Slides7(One PerPage)

Slides7(Two Per Page) 

Mccallum, 1998

Lewis, 1994

Tue. -Oct. 17

Text Categorization III

 Thu. -Oct. 19

Text Categorization IV

Slides8(One PerPage)

Slides8(Two Per Page) 

Filtering/Recommendation System

Content-Based Filtering

Slides9(One Per Page)

Slides9(Two Per Page) 

Zhang & Callan, 2001

  Thu. - Oct. 26

(Hw 2 Due)

Filtering/Recommendation System

Collaborative-Filtering (I)

Slides10(One Per Page)

Slides10(Two Per Page)

Breese et al., 1998

Hofmann & Puzicha, 1999     

Si & Jin, 2003

Filtering/Recommendation System

Collaborative-Filtering (II)

(Hw 3 Out)

Federated Text Search (I)

Slides11(One Per Page)

Slides11(Two Per Page) 

Callan, 2000

Si & Callan, 2002

Si & Callan, 2003

Federated Text Search (II)

Federated Text Search (III)

Text Clustering

Slides12(One Per Page)

Slides12(Two Per Page)

Hyper Text/Link Analysis

Slides13(One Per Page)

Slides13(Two Per Page)

Class Review

(No Class)