Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 435
Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery

Andrea LaPaugh

Spring 2012


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WEEK 1
Mon. Feb. 6:
Overview of course topics and organization.   Models of information.
Wed. Feb 8:   Foundations: classic information retrieval of text.  Extending the models.

WEEK 2

Mon. Feb. 13:  Ranking, classical


Wed. Feb 15:  Ranking, Web  
WEEK 3

Sunday Feb. 19:   Problem Set 2 is now available

Mon. Feb. 20:  
Evaluation of retrieval systems


Wed. Feb. 22:   Index structure and use.

WEEK 4
Mon. Feb. 27:  Index construction

Wed. Feb. 29:  Index compression Thurs. March 1:  Problem Set 3 (pdf) is now available.


WEEK 5
Mon. Mar. 5 : Index compression continued
Wed. Mar. 7: 
Distributed computation for index building and query execution.   

Thurs. Mar. 8: A report on the Bing and Google analysis for problem set 2 is now available.

Fri. Mar. 9:  Solutions to problem set 3 (pdf) are now available.



WEEK 6
Mon. Mar. 12:  Crawling the Web


Wed.  Mar. 14:  Characteristics of the changing Web 


take-home EXAM 1:  DISTRIBUTED end of class Wednesday March 14.  DUE 3:00 PM Friday, March 16.



Spring break


WEEK 7


Mon. March 26: Search refinement; using users behavior

Wed. March 28 
continuation of March 26:  collaborative filtering
Thurs.  March 29:   Problem set 4 is now available

WEEK 8
Mon. April 2:  Clustering


Wed. April 4:  Clustering continued
Thurs.  April 5:   Problem set 5 (pdf) is now available

WEEK 9
Project progress reports this week  -  meet with Professor LaPaugh.

Mon. April 9:    Emergency preparedness experience

Wed. April 11:  Detecting near-duplicate documents
WEEK 10

Mon. April 16 
Latent Semantic Indexing

Wed. April 18
Semi-structured information and XML

WEEK 11

Mon. April 23
Non-text retrieval: image retrieval



Wed. April 25
Issues in searching the modern Web:  deep Web
Sat. April 28 Solutions to the first exam (pdf) are now available.


WEEK 12


Mon. April 30  Privacy Issues in Information Systems

Wed. May 2
Wrap-up

take-home EXAM 2:  DISTRIBUTED end of class Wednesday May 2.  DUE 5:00 PM Friday,  May 4.


Project Report due 5:00 pm Dean's Date, Tuesday May 15, 2012
Project Demonstration between May 16 and May 21

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last revised  Mon Jun 11 16:00:20 EDT 2012
Copyright  2010, 201, 2012 Andrea S. LaPaugh