Course
CS 6322 Information Retrieval
Professor
Sanda Harabagiu
Term
Fall 2011
Meetings
MW 5:30-6:45 PM ECSS 2.203
Professor’s Contact Information
Office Phone
(972) 883-4654
Office Location
ECSS 3.411
Email Address
sanda@hlt.utdallas.edu
Office Hours
MW 3:00-4:00 PM
Other Information
Class Web Page:www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~sanda/courses/IR/cs6322.html
General Course Information
Pre-requisites,Co-requisites,& otherrestrictions
CS 5343 Algorithm Analysis & Data Structures
CourseDescription
The graduate Computer Science class CS 6322 on Information Retrieval
provides
a strong grounding in the fundamentals of organizing on-lineinformation, multimedia warehouses, Web search/crawling and digitallibraries. This course is intended to prepare you to design, develop and useinformation systems. The course explores the practices, issues and theoreticalfoundations of organizing and analyzing information and information contentfor the purpose of providing intellectual access to textual and non-textualinformation resources. Students will learn how effective information searchand retrieval is interrelated with the organization and description of information to be retrieved.More information available at: /www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~sanda/courses/class_description/html_ir/cs6322.htmll
LearningOutcomes
CS 6322 focuses on the basic IR techniques, including indexing, clustering,crawling and satisfying information needs. The fundamental algorithms andtechniques for each of these areas of information retrieval are studied. A variety of current research topics are also covered, including cross-lingualretrieval, document summarization, topic detection and tracking and multi-media retrieval. During this class state-of-the art techniques for buildingsearch engines will be covered and each student will gain hands-onexperience with programming efficient Web spiders and crawlers as well asup-to-date search engines.
RequiredTexts & Materials
Introduction to Information Retrieval
by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze
Cambridge University Press
.
2008, ISBN 978-0-521-86571-5
SuggestedTexts,Readings,& Materials
As provided in class/class web page.
Assignments & Academic Calendar
August 24 2011
Introduction to Information Retrieval Syllabus Issued
August 29 2011
Boolean Retrieval
August 31 2011
The Term Vocabulary and Posting List
September 5 2011
Labor Day - Holiday
September 7 2011
Stemming and Skip pointers Homework 1 issued
September 12 2011
Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
September 14 2011
Index Construction
September 19 2011
Dynamic Index Construction Project Selection
September 21 2011
Index Compression -1
September 26 2011
Index Compression -2 Homework 1 due
September 28 2011
The Vector Space Model Homework 2 issued
October 3 2011
Scoring in the Vector Space Model
October 5 2011
Information Retrieval Evaluation 1
October 10 2011
Information Retrieval Evaluation 2
October 12 2011
Query Expansion
October 17 2011
Relevance Feedback Homework 2 due
October 19 2011
Text Classification
October 24 2011
Text Classification (cont)MID-ERM EXAMissued
October 26 2011
XML retrieval
October 31 2011
Probabilistic Retrieval -1
November 2 2011
Probabilistic Retrieval -2 Homework 3 issued
November 7 2011
Probabilistic Retrieval -3MID-ERM EXAMdue
November 9 2011
Language Models for IR
November 14 2011
Vector Space Classification Homework 3 due
November 16 2011
Flat Clustering Homework 4 issued
November 21 2011
Hierarchical Clustering
November 23 2011
Web Search
November 28 2011
Web Crawling Homework 4 due
November 30 2011
Link Analysis
November 30 2011
Project Presentations -1
December 5 2011
Project Presentations -2
December 5 2011
FINAL EXAM
Course Policies
Grading(credit)CriteriaHome works: 20%Project: 30%Pop-Up Quizzes 10%Mid-Term Exam: 20%Final Exam: 20%Make-upExamsThere will be no make-up exams unless previously requested andapproved by the instructorExtra Credit There will be two extra-credit assignmentsLate Work If the homework is turned in after the deadline, the grade for thehomework shall be reduced by 20% for the fist 24 hours, 50% forthe next 24 hours and shall not be accepted after 48 hours.Special AssignmentsStudents may request special assignment for extra-creditClass Highly recommended.
AttendanceClassroomCitizenshipClass participation is given extra credit.Field TripPoliciesThere are no field trips.StudentConduct andDiscipline
The University of Texas System and The University of Texas at Dallas haverules and regulations for the orderly and efficient conduct of their business.It is the responsibility of each student and each student organization to beknowledgeable about the rules and regulations which govern student conductand activities. General information on student conduct and discipline iscontained in the UTD publication,
A to Z Guide
, which is provided to allregistered students each academic year.The University of Texas at Dallas administers student discipline within theprocedures of recognized and established due process. Procedures aredefined and described in the
Rules and Regulations, Board of Regents, The University of Texas System, Part 1, Chapter VI, Section 3
, and in Title V,Rules on Student Services and Activities of the university’s
Handbook of Operating Procedures
. Copies of these rules and regulations are available tostudents in the Office of the Dean of Students, where staff members areavailable to assist students in interpreting the rules and regulations (SU1.602, 972/883-6391). A student at the university neither loses the rights nor escapes theresponsibilities of citizenship. He or she is expected to obey federal, state,and local laws as well as the Regents’ Rules, university regulations, andadministrative rules. Students are subject to discipline for violating thestandards of conduct whether such conduct takes place on or off campus, orwhether civil or criminal penalties are also imposed for such conduct.
AcademicIntegrity
The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility andacademic honesty. Because the value of an academic degree depends uponthe absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that degree, it isimperative that a student demonstrate a high standard of individual honor inhis or her scholastic work.Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, statements, acts oromissions related to applications for enrollment or the award of a degree,and/or the submission as one’s own work or material that is not one’s own. As a general rule, scholastic dishonesty involves one of the following acts:cheating, plagiarism, collusion and/or falsifying academic records. Studentssuspected of academic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary proceedings.Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes,and from any other source is unacceptable and will be dealt with under theuniversity’s policy on plagiarism (see general catalog for details). This coursewill use the resources of turnitin.com, which searches the web for possibleplagiarism and is over 90% effective.
Email Use
The University of Texas at Dallas recognizes the value and efficiency of communication between faculty/staff and students through electronic mail. Atthe same time, email raises some issues concerning security and the identity
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