Note: Each week runs from Thursday to the following Tuesday
(e.g., Week 1 includes lectures on Thurs. Aug 20th and Tues. Aug 25th)
| Wk | Topics | Deliverables | Notes | Readings |
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| Information Seeking and Search Interfaces | ||||
| 1 | Overview |
First Class: Thurs., Aug 20 | Croft et. al, Ch. 1 Hearst Ch. 1 |
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| 2 | Information Seeking Models | First TA Session (Zoom): Fri | Hearst Ch. 3 | |
| 3 | Information Seeking Models, part II | Assign 1 due |
TA tutorials (Zoom): Begin Tues. | |
| 4 | Integrating Navigation and Search | Thurs: Visit from Roman Koshykar, GCCIS librarian |
Hearst Ch. 8 |
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| 5 | Search UI Evaluation | Proj 1 assigned Paper 1 discussions | Hearst Ch. 2.2-2.8 | |
| Search Algorithms: Fundamentals | ||||
| 6 | Inverted Indices | Proj 1 due | Thurs: Career Fair interviews |
Croft Ch. 5 |
| 7 | Inverted Indices, Part II Text Processing and Analysis | Thurs: Behrooz discusses the ARQMath lab at CLEF 2020 |
Croft Ch. 4 |
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| 8 | Text processing, cont'd | Proj 2 assigned Paper 2 discussions |
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| Ad-hoc Text Search | ||||
| 9 | Query expansion + results | Croft Ch. 6 | ||
| 10 | Query expansion, cont'd | Assign 2 due | ||
| 11 | Retrieval models | Croft Ch. 7.1-7.3 | ||
| Machine Learning for IR | ||||
| 12 | Evaluation | Proj 2 due | Croft Ch. 8 | |
| 13 | Classification + Clustering | Proj 3/exam assigned |
Croft Chs. 7.6/9 | |
| 14 | Research topics | Paper 3 discussions (in-class) Assign 3 due |
Last Class: Tues. Nov. 24 | |
| Exam Period | ||||
| 15 | Exam week | Exam: Dec. 4, 1:30-4pm (Proj 3 presentation) |
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| 16 | Exam week | Proj 3 due Dec. 7, 11:59pm Grades due Dec. 11th |
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