Web Retrieval and Mining

Fall 2009

Schedule
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  Date   Topic   Reading
 2009/09/18  Overview ¡@
 2009/09/25  Introduction to IR  Performance Evaluation
 TREC Measures
 The TREC and Its Impact
 2009/10/02  IR System  Components of IR System
 Text Processing
 Assignment 1 (Due on 10/16)
 2009/10/09  IR System & VSM  Vector Space Model
 Heaps' Law
 Zipf's Law
 2009/10/16  Probabilistic Model  Probabilistic Model
 
Relevance Feedback
 
Assignment 2
 2009/10/23  Break
 2009/10/30  Language Model  Language Model
 
Smoothing
 KL-divergence
 2009/11/06  Break (Demo of Assignment 2)
 2009/11/13  Link Analysis  Link Analysis
 Google Technology
 Assignment 3
 2009/11/14  Mixture Model & EM
 (Make up 11/06 class)
 EM Algorithm
 2009/11/20  Content-based Image/Video
 Retrieval
 2009/11/27  Midterm Exam
 2009/12/04  Clustering  Text Clustering
 Assignment 4  (Term Clustering)
 
(Term Similarity)
 2009/12/11  Query Log  Query Log Analysis
 2009/12/18  Classfication  List of Teams for Final Projects
 Proposals of Final Projects
 2009/12/25  Selected Topics
 2010/01/01  Break
 2010/01/08  Project Presentation
 2010/01/15  Project Presentation

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