Text-Based Information
Systems
CMPSCI 646 (691I)
Spring, 1998
Instructors:
Jamie
Callan, LGRC A235, x5-4878,
callan@cs.umass.edu
Office
hours: After class, and by appointment.
Bruce
Croft, LGRC A351, x5-0463, croft@cs.umass.edu
Office
hours: By appointment.
Location: MRST 15
Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30-3:45pm
Written Assignment
1 is due Tuesday, February 10, 1998.
Programming Assignment
1 is due Thursday, February 26, 1998.
Written Assignment 2
is due Tuesday, March 10, 1998.
Programming Assignment
2 is due Thursday, April 2, 1998.
Written Assignment 3
is due Tuesday, April 28, 1998.
Programming Assignment
3 is due Thursday, May 7, 1998.
Written Assignment
4 is due Thursday, May 14, 1998.
Reading Materials:
The text for the course is Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by Karen Sparck Jones and Peter Willet, published in 1997 by Morgan Kaufmann. The Physical Sciences library has a copy.
Other readings, for example conference papers, or chapters from Keith van Rijsbergen's book, will be assigned occasionally to supplement the text. These additional readings are on reserve in the Physical Sciences library, in LGRC. Keith van Rijsbergen's book is also available online, here.
Class Notes (Not Available For All Lectures):
January 29: Introduction
February 3: Statistical Nature of Text
February 5: Text Compression
February 10: Indexing
February 12,17: Evaluation
February 19,24,26,28: Text Representation
March 3: Queries
March 5: Exact Match
March 10: Vector Space retrieval model
March 24: Mid-Course Review
March 26: Midterm Exam
March 19, March 31: Probabilistic Retrieval Models
April 2: Inference Net Model
April 7,9: Relevance Feedback
April 14: Information Filtering
April 16, April 21: Document and Term Clustering
April 28, April 30: Distributed IR
May 7: Interfaces for IR
May 14: Expert Intermediaries for IR
May 14: Summarization, Topic Detection (and Tracking)