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| Objective | To understand computer based automatic indexing and retrieval of text/web based information. |
| Books: | Experiments in Information Storage and Retrieval Using Mumps |
| Course Materials: |
Collection of data bases, examples and text
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| Requirements: |
The requiements will consist of a set of assignments to be
performed individually and a project which may be done
either individually or in small groups (approx. 3 persons max).
As this couse depends heavily on lecture content, attendance is
required. Excessive absence will result in a reduced grade
for the project. The term "excessive absence" means: don't push your
luck.
Term Project (25%)
Classes are lecture format. Cell phones, pagers, laptops and PDA's may not be used.
Assignments must include:
Assignments not complying with the above will be returned ungraded. Assignmnents may not be submitted by email. |
| Test 1 | TBA |
| Test 2 | TBA |
| Final: | Click Here |
| Makeup Tests | Makeup tests will be given only in cases of demonstrated need for causes such as serious illness, family emergency or University sanctioned schedule conflict. In all cases, written documentation will be required. |
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Penalty for Hacking & Cheating | A grade of "F" for the course and possible University disciplinary action. If your work duplicates in whole or part the work of another, both works will receive a grade of F. |
| Project | Projects will be presented in class with a brief online demonstration. A vote will be taken for the best project and the winner will be exempt from the final (grade of A will be entered for the final exam grade). You may work in teams of from 1 to 3 (hint: have one person do the indexing, one the retrieval code and the other do the web interface). All group members will receive the same grade. |
| Final Grades | Final grades will not be available via email. If you want your grade mailed to you, bring a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the final. |
| Contact | Click Here |
| Computer | You may want to use your own computer to do the assignments and project. If that is not the case, you may have an account on one of my Linux servers. The assignments and project are extreme I/O intensive. If you use your own machine, a desktop with lots of memeory is best. |
| Data Base | Reuters Unfiltered
Reuters Filtered Reuters Filtered version 2 Reuters Filtered version 3 (version 2 has xoxoxo ... XOXOXO, version 3 has title1 ... title2). |
| Getting Started |
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| HTML |
BareBones HTML Guide |
| Assignments |
Do not push assignments under the office door - leave them in the CS
Office. All pages must be stapled.
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| Other Resources |
Mesh
Documentation and Availability
Resources:
Salton, G., Automatic Informatiuon Organization and Retrieval,
McGraw Hill (1968)
Data Sets for Machine Learning WordNet Apache Web Archive (you think you have disk capacity problems!) PostgreSQL Tutorial Rod Library Electronic Resources ACM Digital Library Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling Cornell Smart System SIGIR List and Archives UVA Electronic Text Center NLM Gateway Digital Library Research Laboratory Automatic Text Browsing Using the Vector Space Model Lawrence Berkeley Lab Science Articles Archive The Internet Archive Search Engine Features Anatomy of a Search Engine (Google) Medline (National Library of Medicine) Information Retrieval by C. J. van Rijsbergen Modern Information Retrieval Chapter 10 Cystic Fibrosis Reference Collection Marti Hearst Site Online Papers Ed Fox Links IIT IR Publications Web IR WWW 10 WWW 9 WWW 8 WWW 7 WWW 5 IRIS Project Lots of Links Top Ten Issues Searching Genomic Databases Amazon.com's recommender algorithm Huffman Trees Knuth Optimal Binary Trees Hu-Tucker Trees AVL (Balanced) Trees B trees and AVL Trees B Trees IBM Clever Project flex documentation Homology Searching Project Gutenberg |
The following notice is required by the University:
"The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) provides protection from illegal discrimination for qualified individuals with disabilities. Students requesting instructional accommodations due to disabilities must arrange for such accommodation through the Office of Disability Services. The ODS is located at: 213 Student Services Center, and the phone number is: 273-2676."Because the Office of Disability Services has procedures in place to determine the validity of disability claims as well as the need for instructional accommodations, faculty are reminded that they are to direct all students with accommodation requests to the above listed office.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD A FACULTY MEMBER MAKE AN ACCOMMODATION INDEPENDENT OF THE OFFICE OF DISABILITY SERVICES.
Questions may be directed to: Disability Services Coordinator, at 273-2676 or to this office at 273-2846.