Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 435
Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery

Andrea LaPaugh

Spring 2016


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The reading for a class should be completed before class.


WEEK 1
Mon. Feb. 1:
Overview of course topics and organization.   Models of information.

Wed. Feb 3:   Foundations: classic information retrieval of text. 

WEEK 2
Mon. Feb. 8:  Extending the models. Using links.


Wed. Feb. 10:  
Evaluation of retrieval systems

WEEK 3
Mon. Feb. 15: 
Index structure and use.


Wed.  Feb 17:  Index structure and use continued; index construction


WEEK 4

Mon.  Feb 22:  Index compression

Wed.  Feb 24:  Index compression continued 


WEEK 5


Mon.  Feb. 29: 
Distributed computation for index building and query execution.

Wed. Mar. 2:  Crawling the Web


WEEK 6

Mon. Mar.  7:  Detecting near-duplicate documents


Wed Mar.  9:  finish up near-duplicate documents

      IMPORTANT DEADLINES:


Spring break



WEEK 7

Mon. March 21:  Using users behavior: search refinement and recommender systems

Wed. March 23: 
Recommender systems: collaborative filtering

WEEK 8

Mon. March 28:
  Collaborative filtering, continued;  Latent semantic indexing

Wed. March 30:  Clustering

WEEK 9

Project progress meetings with Professor LaPaugh NEXT week  -watch Piazza for sign-up instructions

Mon. April 4:    Clustering continued

Wed. April 6: Social Networks
: searching

WEEK 10

Project progress meetings with Professor LaPaugh THIS week  - see  Piazza for sign-up instructions

Mon. April 11  Social Networks: aggregating information and analyzing structure

Wed. April 14:  Non-text retrieval: image retrieval

WEEK 11


Mon. April 18:  Semi-structured information and XML


Wed. April 20: 
Deep Web Search


WEEK 12

Mon. April 25:  Visualizing Information; Privacy Issues in Information Systems


Wed. April 27:  wrap-up

Second take-home exam distributed Wednesday April 27, 2016 at the end of class,  due  3:30 PM sharp Friday April 29, 2016


last revised  Tue May 24 15:44:44 EDT 2016
Copyright  2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Andrea S. LaPaugh