Information Retrieval
CMPSCI 646
Spring 2001
Bruce Croft
CS370, x5-0463, croft@cs.umass.edu
Office hours: 1:15-2 Tuesdays and Thursdays (before class) and by appointment.
Help for programming assignments will be available through this page.
The text for
the course is Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, published 1999 by Addison Wesley. Copies are
available for purchase in the Textbook Annex. A copy is on reserve in the
Physical Sciences Library.
Other
material--e.g., conference papers or chapters from van Rijsbergen's book--will
be assigned occasionally to supplement the text. These additional
readings will be on reserve in the Physical Sciences Library or will be handed
out in class.
Please be aware
that notes are copyright by Bruce Croft, James Allan, Howard Turtle, and/or
Jamie Callan.
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May 10, Clustering and Query Expansion (PostScript)
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May 8, Combining Strategies (PostScript)
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May 3, Evaluation (PostScript)
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April 24, Probabilistic Retrieval Models (PostScript)
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April 19, Relevance Feedback (PostScript)
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April 10, Retrieval Models (PostScript)
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March 27, Text Representation (PostScript)
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March 13, Architectures (PostScript)
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March 1, File Organizations (PostScript)
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February 27, Compression (PostScript)
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February 22, Web Crawling (PostScript)
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February 15, XML and Metadata (PostScript)
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February 13, Text Encoding and Words (PostScript)
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February 1, Text and Statistics (PostScript)
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January 30, Overview (PostScript)
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University of Massachusetts
Last updated May 15, 2001