Class Times: Tuesday and Thursday, 8:35-9:55

Place: Computer Science Building, Room 127

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Topics for which you are responsible for the final exam - as of 28 November 2006

Course Outline

Topics that may be covered

Milestone 1 - Due in class September 26

Milestone_2 - Due in class October 24

Final Project - Due in class week of November 27

List of resources

Read Chapter 1

Perl Tutorial Material (under the link: LC - Tutorials)

GDBM for JAVA (JDBM)

Solution to gdbm file size problem

A Study of Smoothing Methods for Language Models Applied to Ad Hoc Information Retrieval

Power Point presentation on Language Models

Second Power Point presentation on Language Models

Readings

• The Challenges in IR Paper
• The Challenges in IR powerpoint
• Sample Questions from previous midterms and finals
  • Sample Appendix Page
• Slides on Genre and Task
• Adaptive User Profile
• Tacit Knowledge