LSU LIS7610/CSC7481 Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2015 - Section 01
Syllabus

For each session, this syllabus shows the top-level topics that we plan to cover, required readings that should be read before the indicated lecture, and assignments that students are required to complete before the indicated class. All homework and programming assignments are due at the beginning of class.

Session Date Topic Readings Assignment Due Lecture Activity
1
Aug 26
 Structure of IR systems
1
H1     
  
Moodle
 
2
Sept 2
 Content-based IR systems
2
H2, P0
H1
Moodle
Project overview (0)
3
Sept 9
 Ranked retrieval
3
H3, P1
H2
Moodle
Project overview (1)
4
Sept 16
 Interaction
4
P2
P0
Moodle
Project overview (2, 3)
5
Sept 23
 Evaluation
5
H4, P3
H3
Moodle
Project team kickoff (.xls)
6
Sept 30
 Web search
6
  
H4
Moodle
7
Oct 7
 Behavior-based IR systems
7
P4
P1
Moodle
8
Oct 14
 Metadata-based IR systems
8
P5
P2
Moodle
 
9
Oct 21
 Clustering, Classification, Filtering
9
  
P3
Moodle
Project updates
10
Oct 28
 Scanned documents
10
Moodle
11
Nov 4
 Cross-language Search
11
    
Moodle
12
Nov 11
 Audio (speech and music)
12
Moodle
13
Nov 18
 Photographs and video
13
  
P4
Moodle
 
14
Nov 25
 Thanksgiving. No Class. Work on project!      
15
Dec 2
 Future of IR
15
  
P5
Moodle
Project due!
16
Dec 9
 Final Exam (will be posted on Moodle
before 12/9, due 12/10 midnight) 		     
Moodle
 

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Acknowledgement to Doug Oard, Revised by Yejun Wu.