Take-home
EXAM
2
will
be
DISTRIBUTED
end
of
class
Monday,
April
25
and
DUE
beginning
of
class (1:30pm) Wednesday,
April 27. The second exam will have the same format
as exam 1, and the same reference materials will be allowed.
March 29: The WASS
calendar for scheduling project progess reports with Professor LaPaugh
is now available. Note that Professor LaPaugh owns two WASS
calendars. Use the one entitled COS 435 Calendar. The
calendar
can
be
found
by
searching under its title or owner's name
"LaPaugh" or owner's NetID "aslp". See the Project Page for details on what is
required for this progress report.
Take-home Exam 1 will be distributed
at
the
end
of
class
onWednesday
March 9 and DUE
3:00 PM Friday, March 11. You are allowed to
use the following reference materials while taking the exam:
your personal notes and problem set submissions,
the problem set solutions posted on the course Web site,
Introduction to Information
Retrieval by Manning, Raghavan, and Schütze,
class notes and any of the readings posted on the “Schedule and
Readings” page of the Web site for the course under “Reading” or “Also
of interest”. (Check the “Schedule and Readings” page for updates
on the readings and class notes.)
No other materials are allowed.
Exam 1 from 2010 and solutions to Problem 1 and Problem 3 of that exam are
available as study aids for the upcoming exam. Problem 2 of the
exam is the same as Problem 1 of the current Problem Set 3.