Administrivia
202 Team
Email: is202-ta@sims.berkeley.edu
Professor Marc Davis
Email: marc@sims.berkeley.edu
Website: http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu/marc.cfm
Office number: (510) 643-2253
Office Hours: Thursday 2:00pm-4:00pm 314 South Hall Also by appointment. No office hours on Thursday, Sept. 16. Changed to Tuesday, Sept. 14, 1-3 PM
Professor Ray Larson
Email: ray@sims.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/
Office number: (510) 642-6046
Office Hours: Thursday 1:00pm-3:00pm 207B South Hall
TA Alison Billings
Email: billings@sims.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Monday 11:00am-1:00pm SIMS downstairs lab, Room 5 Also by appointment.
TA Tu Tran
Email: tutran@sims.berkeley.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm SIMS downstairs lab, Room 5 Also by appointment
Course Information
Course Dates: August 31 to December 9, 2004
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 4
Grading Option: Letter Grade only
Course Texts
Required
Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. Addison Wesley, 1999. ISBN: 020139829X
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series), Arlene Taylor. Libraries Unlimited, 2nd edition, 2003. ISBN: 1563089696
Available at the campus bookstore
Recommended
Programming for Corpus Linguistics (Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics), Oliver Mason. Edinburgh Univ Press, 2001. ISBN: 0748614079
Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, & Bucks, Michael Lesk. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 1558604596
Optional
Information Retrieval, C. J. van Rijsbergen. Butterworths, 1975.
This book is available online.
Organizing knowledge: an introduction to information retrieval, Jennifer Rowley. Ashgate Publishing, 1992.
Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine, Robert Lucky. St. Martin's, 1989.
Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World, Arno Penzias. W.W. Norton, 1989.
Reader
Available at Copy Central, Bancroft
Grading Criteria
60% Assignments
25% Final Exam
15% Class Participation
Course Work
August 31 : Tuesday
September 2 : Thursday
What is Information? History of Information Search and Organization
September 7 : Tuesday
September 9 : Thursday
Boolean Queries; Text Processing (tokenization, morphological analysis)
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
Chapters 2 and 4 of Modern Information Retrieval [Textbook]
"How to Use Controlled Vocabularies More Effectively in Online Searching" Bates [Reader]
"Improving Full-Text Precision on Short Queries using Simple Constraints" Hearst [Reader]
Resources
September 14 : Tuesday
September 16 : Thursday
September 21 : Tuesday
Statistical Properties of Text and Vector Representation
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
"Developments in Automatic Text Retrieval" Salton [Reader]
"Getting Beyond Boole" Cooper [Reader]
"Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Improve Access to Textual Information" Dumais et. Al. [Reader]
Resources
September 23 : Thursday
September 28 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
Chapter 3 of Modern Information Retrieval [Textbook]
"An Evaluation of Retrieval Effectiveness for a Full-text Document-Retrieval System" Blair and Maron [Reader]
"Rave Reviews: Acquiring Relevance Assessments from Multiple Users" Belew [Reader]
"A Case for Interaction: A Study of Interactive Information Retrieval Behavior and Effectiveness" Koenemann and Belkin [Reader]
"Work Tasks and Socio-Cognitive Relevence: A Specific Example" Hjorland and Chritensen [Reader]
"Social Information Filtering: Algorithms for Automating "Word of Mouth"" Shardanand and Maes [Reader]
Resources
Due on October 5
September 30 : Thursday
October 5 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
"Logical Database Design and the Relational Model" McFadden & Hoffer [Reader]
October 7 : Thursday
last updated on 2004-09-27 by the syllabus team