LSU LIS7610/CSC7481 Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2011 - Section 01
Syllabus

For each session this syllabus shows the top-level topics that we plan to cover, chapters in the text and the lecture notes, links to other required readings that should be read before the indicated class, and assignments that students are required to complete before the indicated class. All homework and programming assignments are due at the beginning of class (late arrival in class will not change the time when the assignment was due). The slides link will take you to the Powerpoint slides or RTF documents for the indicated session.

Session Date Topic Readings Assignment Due Slides Activity
1
Aug 24
 Structure of IR systems
1
H1     
  
PPT||RTF
 
2
Aug 31
 Evidence from Content
2
H2, P0
H1
PPT||RTF
Project overview (0)
3
Sep 7
 Ranked retrieval
3
      P1
H2
PPT||RTF
Project overview (1)
4
Sep 14
 Interaction
4
H3, P2
P0
PPT||RTF
Project overview (2, 3)
5
Sep 21
 Evaluation
5
H4, P3
H3
PPT||RTF
Project team kickoff (.xls)
6
Sep 28
 Web search
6
  
H4
PPT||RTF
Semantic Web visioning
7
Oct 5
 Evidence from behavior + Scanned documents
7 8
 
P1
PPT||RTF
Recommendation Systems
8
Oct 12
 Scanned documents (moved to Oct 5)
8
    
PPT||RTF
Attending ASIST Meeting
9
Oct 19
 Evidence from metadata + Clustering, Classification, Filtering
9
  
P2
PPT||RTF
 
10
Oct 26
 Clustering, Classification, Filtering (moved to Oct 19)
10
  
P3
PPT||RTF
Attending BP Project PI Meeting
11
Nov 2
 Speech and music
11
    
PPT||RTF
Research project updates
12
Nov 9
 Cross-language Search
12
    
PPT||RTF
13
Nov 16
 Photographs and video
13
  
P4
PPT||RTF
 
14
Nov 23
 No Class
      Thanksgiving
15
Nov 30
 Project presentations    
P5 (on Dec 5)
PPT||RTF
Project reports
16
Dec 7
2:40-5:30PM
 Final Exam          

Key:
H = homework assignment (individual)
P = Project (individual or team)

Acknowledgement to Doug Oard, Revised by Yejun Wu.
Last modified: August 14 2011