CS 236601: Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries

Date	Topic	Reading(s)
11 March, 2001	Introduction to Information Retrieval
18 March, 2001	Vector Space Model and Features	[Baeza-Yates1999], Chapter 2, pp. 19-44, 48-61. [Grossman1998], Chapter 1, pp. 11-48. [Sahami1998Thesis], Chapter 2, pp. 17-29, and Chapter 6, pp. 76-84.
25 March, 2001	Relevance Ranking	[Baeza-Yates1999], Chapter 5, pp. 117-138. [Grossman1998], Chapter 3, pp. 84-94.
1 April, 2001	Web search engine example	[Brin1998]
15 April, 2001	Performance evaluation	[Androutsopoulos2000], [Dietterich1997], [Dumais2000], [Iwayama2000], [Salzberg1999], [Zobel1998]
22 April, 2001	Feature selection	[Sahami1998Thesis], Chapter 7, pp. 96-123. [Yang1997]
29 April, 2001	Document clustering	[Goldszmidt1998], [Sahami1998Thesis], Chapter 6, pp. 76-94.
6 May, 2001	Document classification and filtering	[Goldszmidt1998], [Sahami1998], [Yang1999]
13 May, 2001	Latent Semantic Indexing.	[Letsche1996]
20 May, 2001	Digital libraries.
3 July, 2001	Distributed information indexing/retrieval.
10 July, 2001	Project Review.
17 July, 2001	Project Review.
24 July, 2001	Project Review.