Princeton University
Computer Science Dept.

Computer Science 435
Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery

Andrea LaPaugh

Spring 2011


General Information | Schedule and Assignments |  Project Page | Announcements

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WEEK 1
Mon. Dec. 31:
Overview of course topics and organization.   Models of information.
Wed. Feb 2:   Foundations: classic information retrieval of text.  Extending the models.

WEEK 2

Mon. Feb. 7:  Ranking, classical



Wed. Feb 9:  Ranking, Web  
WEEK 3
Mon. Feb. 14:   Evaluation of retrieval systems


Wed. Feb. 16:   Index structure and use.

WEEK 4
Mon. Feb. 21:  Index construction

Wed. Feb. 23:  Index construction continued; Zipf's law.  Thursday Feb. 24:  Problem set 3 (pdf) is now available.


WEEK 5
Mon. Feb. 28: Index compression
Wed. Mar. 2:  Index compression continued.

WEEK 6
Mon. Mar. 7: 
Distributed computation for index building and query execution.   


Wed. Mar 9: 
Semi-structured information and XML
take-home EXAM 1:  DISTRIBUTED end of class Wednesday March 9.  DUE 3:00 PM Friday, March 11.

Spring break


WEEK 7
Mon.  March 21:
   canceled


Wed. March 23: Search refinement; using users behavior
Thursday March 24:  Problem set 4 is now available.



WEEK 8
Mon. March 28:  Clustering


Wed. March 30:  Clustering continued


WEEK 9
Project progress reports this week or next  -  meet with Professor LaPaugh.

Mon. April 4: Latent Semantic Indexing


Wed. April 6:  Detecting near-duplicate documents
Thurs.  April 7:
  Problem Set 6 (pdf) is available. 


WEEK 10
Project progress reports this week - meet with Professor LaPaugh unless you met last week.

Mon. April 11:  Crawling the Web


Wed. April 13:  Focused crawling;  Characteristics of the changing Web 

WEEK 11
Mon. April 18:  canceled

Wed. April 20:  Overview exam topics; Non-text retrieval: image retrieval


WEEK 12
Take-home EXAM 2: DISTRIBUTED end of class Monday, April 25.  DUE beginning of class Wednesday, April 27.

Mon. April 25: Issues in searching the modern Web:  deep Web



Wed. April 27:  Wrap-up















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last revised Tue May  3 16:45:14 EDT 2011
Copyright  2010, 2011 Andrea S. LaPaugh