Administrivia
Instructor Ray Larson
Email: ray@sims.berkeley.edu
Website: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ray/
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:00am-2:00am Thursday 1:00am-3:00am 207B South Hall
Course Description
Three hours of lecture per week.
Prerequisites: SIMS 202 or consent of instructor.
Theories and methods for searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic information. Analysis of relevance, utility. Statistical and linguistic methods for automatic indexing and classification. Boolean and probabilistic approaches to indexing, query formulation, and output ranking. Filtering methods. Measures of retrieval effectiveness and retrieval experimentation methodology.
Course Information
School of Information Management and Systems INFOSYS 240
Course Dates: January 18 to May 10, 2004
Lecture Schedule: Tuesday Thursday 10:30am-12:00pm in 202 South Hall
Units: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade or Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory or Pass/Not Pass
Course Texts
Required
Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. Addison Wesley, 1999.
Readings in Information Retrieval, Karen Sparck Jones-Yates and Peter Willett. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. ISBN: 1-55860-454-5
Highly Recommended - there will be readings from this.
Information retrieval, C. J. van Rijsbergen-Yates. Butterworths, 1975.
Available through the preceding link in PDF or HTML.
Recommended
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective, William R. Hersh. Springer-Verlag, 2003. ISBN: 0-387-95522-4
Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Rerieval, W. Bruce Croft, ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. ISBN: 0-7923-7812-1
Managing Gigabytes : Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999. ISBN: 1558605703
Information retrieval: data structures & algorithms, William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. Prentice Hall, 1992.
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer, Gerard Salton. Addison-Wesley, 1988.
Amazon currently lists this book as "Out of Print--Limited Availability", but it may be available used.
A History of Online Information Services: 1963-1976, Charles P. Bourne and Trudi Bellardo Hahn. The MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 0-262-02538-8
For those interested in the early history of online IR services.
Grading Criteria
30% Final Paper
50% Lab Assignments & Mini-Trec
20% Class Participation (including Mini-TREC presentation)
Grades for this course will be based primarily on the term paper or project and participation in the Mini-TREC competition. Participation in class discussions and presentations is also expected. These grading proportions are tentative.
Course Work
January 18 : Tuesday
January 20 : Thursday
January 25 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
Chapter 2 - papers by Maron and Kuhns; Cleverdon; Salton and Lesk; and Chapter 3 - papers by Hutchins; Saracevic of Readings in Information Retrieval [Textbook]
Resources
January 27 : Thursday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
Chapter 2 - papers by Maron and Kuhns; Cleverdon; Salton and Lesk; and Chapter 3 - papers by Hutchins; Saracevic of Readings in Information Retrieval [Textbook]
Resources
February 1 : Tuesday
February 3 : Thursday
February 8 : Tuesday
February 10 : Thursday
February 15 : Tuesday
February 17 : Thursday
February 22 : Tuesday
February 24 : Thursday
March 1 : Tuesday
March 3 : Thursday
March 8 : Tuesday
March 10 : Thursday
March 15 : Tuesday
March 17 : Thursday
April 19 : Tuesday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page [Online]
April 21 : Thursday
Lecturer: Ray Larson
Required Readings
"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page [Online]
last updated on 2004-01-12 by Carolyn