CS 7961, Topics in Information Retrieval
Spring 2010 Schedule

All readings are from the textbook unless otherwise specified.
DATE TOPIC READING PRESENTER
1/13 Overview; Introduction to IR Chapter 1 Ellen   (Slides)
1/20 Term Vocabulary, Postings, and Tolerant Retrieval Chapters 2 and 3 Clifton
1/27 Index Construction and Compression Chapters 4 and 5 Jags
2/3 Vector Space Model; Term Weighting Chapter 6 Youngjun & Jihoon
2/10 Scoring, Ranking, and Evaluation Chapters 7 and 8 Chong
2/17 Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion Chapter 9
+ Xu & Croft, SIGIR-96
Ruihong & Shreyas
2/24 Probabilistic Information Retrieval Chapter 11 Adam
3/3 Language Models for IR Chapter 12 Yu & Amit
3/10 Text Classification and Naive Bayes Chapter 13 Zhan
3/17 Vector Space Classification Chapter 14
+ Liere & Tadepalli, AAAI-97
Iljoo
3/24 SPRING BREAK
3/31 Flat Clustering Chapter 16
+ Hearst and Pedersen, SIGIR-96
Hongchang & Anusua
4/7 Hierarchical Clustering Chapter 17
+ Treeratpituk and Callan, DigitalGovt-06
Huong & Hoa
4/14 Latent Semantic Indexing Chapter 18
+ Schuetze and Silverstein, SIGIR-97
Shuying
4/21 Web Search, Link Analysis, PageRank Chapters 19 & 21 Nathan
4/28 Project Presentations