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| Date | Topic | Reading |
| 2008/9/19 | Course
Policies (pdf),
Overview of Web Retrieval and Mining (pdf) |
Bush 45, Mining the Web (ch1) |
| 2008/9/26 | Introduction to IR (pdf) | Performance Evaluation TREC Measures |
| 2008/10/03 | IR System (pdf) | Components of IR Systems (Ch1.2, 1.4) Text Processing (Ch7.2) Assignment 1 (CMU SLM) |
| 2008/10/10 | Break | |
| 2008/10/17 | Vector Space Model (pdf) Probabilistic Model (pdf) |
Vector Space Model Probabilistic Model Relevance Feedback |
| 2008/10/24 | Language Model (pdf) | Language Model Smoothing (Sections 2, 3) LM with KL-divergence (Sections 1, 2, 3) |
| 2008/10/31 | Learning to Rank (pdf) | RankNet (Sections 1,3,4; skip proofs) Benchmark LETOR Assignment 2 (Model Overview) |
| 2008/11/07 | Link Analysis (pdf) | Link Analysis Math Review (A.2.2, A.4, A.5.1) Google Technology |
| 2008/11/14 | Midterm Exam | |
| 2008/11/21 | Mixture Language Model & EM Algorithm (pdf) |
EM Algorithm for Language Model Assignment 3 (Austin's note on PageRank) |
| 2008/11/28 | Intro. to Multimedia IR (pdf) | Paper lists |
| 2008/12/05 | Intro. to Multimedia IR (pdf) | Text Classification One-page proposal for term project (graduate students, team work) |
| 2008/12/12 | Text Classification (pdf) | Assignment 4 (undergraduate students, team work) |
| 2008/12/19 | Text Classification (pdf) | |
| 2008/12/26 | Paper Presentation (Schedule) | Only graduate students |
| 2008/01/02 | Break | |
| 2008/01/09 | Project Presentation | Four-page project report draft (graduate students) |
| 2008/01/16 | Clustering for IR (pdf) | Project Report/Assignment 4 Due |