CSI 660: Information Retrieval

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CSI 660 Information Retrieval

• Professor Tomek Strzalkowski
• Computer Science

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About the Instructor

• Ph.D. 1986 Simon Fraser U, Vancouver BC
• CS Faculty 1987-1994 NYU Courant Inst.
• Principal Scientist, 1994-2000, GE CRD
• Research Interests
• Natural Language, Information Retrieval,
  Automated Summarization, H-C Dialogue
• Sponsors DARPA, CIA, NSF, NIST,
• PC of Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)

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Textbook

• Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley/ACM
  Press, 1999, ISBN 0-201-39829-X
• Additional texts (on reserve in the Library)
• Readings in Information Retrieval, Karen
  Sparck-Jones and Peter Willett (editors),
  Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 1997
• Natural Language Information Retrieval, Tomek
  Strzalkowski (editor), Kluwer Academic
  Publishers, 1999
• Information retrieval data structures
  algorithms, William B. Frakes and Ricardo
  Baeza-Yates. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice
  Hall, 1992.

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Syllabus

• 13 meetings (Wed. 1-4PM, Draper 146)
• Lectures and student presentations
• in-class presentation 45 mins (25)
• technical paper(s) from instructor or library
• Term Project (50) workshop in December
• Problem solving research (term papers)
• Retrieval experiments using existing systems
• Programming tasks
• Participation (25)
• No exams

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Background

• Data structures and algorithms
• Elementary algebra
• Basic statistics and probability
• Elements of logic and set theory
• Having used a catalogue in a library
• Having used an Internet search system