LSU LIS7610/CSC7481 Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2012 - 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 21
 Structure of IR systems
1
H1     
  
Moodle
 
2
Aug 28
 Class cancelled due to hurricane Isaac
Moodle
3
Sept 4
 Evidence from Content
2
H2, P0
H1
Moodle
Project overview (0)
4
Sept 11
 Ranked retrieval
3
H3, P1
H2
Moodle
Project overview (1)
5
Sept 18
 Interaction
4
P2
P0
Moodle
Project overview (2, 3)
6
Sept 25
 Evaluation
5
H4, P3
H3
Moodle
Project team kickoff (.xls)
7
Oct 2
 Web search
6
  
H4
Moodle
8
Oct 9
 Evidence from behavior + Scanned documents
7, 8
P4
P1
Moodle
Recommendation Systems
9
Oct 16
 Evidence from metadata
9
  
P2
Moodle
 
10
Oct 23
 Clustering, Classification, Filtering
10
  
P3
Moodle
Research project updates
11
Oct 30
 Speech and music (merged into Nov 13)
No class today due to conference attendance.
11
Moodle
Attending ASIST 2012
12
Nov 6
 Cross-language Search
12
    
Moodle
13
Nov 13
 Photographs and video,
Speech and music
11 13
  
P4
Moodle
 
14
Nov 20
 No Class
      Thanksgiving
15
Nov 27
 Project presentations    
P5 (on Dec 5)
Moodle
Project reports
16
Dec 4
2:45-4:45PM
 Final Exam          

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

Acknowledgement to Doug Oard, Revised by Yejun Wu.
Last modified: August 16 2012