CS410 Text Information Systems (Spring 2008)

Instructor: ChengXiang Zhai

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Schedule (Anticipated)


Notes:
Date Topic Readings Notes
1/16 Wed Course policies (ppt) ; Overview of Text Management (ppt) Bush 45
1/18 Fri Basic Prob. & Statistics (ppt; pdf; note) Rosenfeld's note on estimation
1/23 Wed Essential Information Theory (ppt; pdf; note) Rosenfeld's note on information theory

Understanding Text Information: Natural Language Processing
1/25 Fri Introduction to NLP ( ppt; pdf; note)
1/30 Wed Statistical language models (ppt; pdf; note) Rosenfeld 00 Assign #1 out

Accessing Text Information: Retrieval and Filtering
2/1 Fri Text Retrieval Overview (ppt; pdf; note) Singhal's review (Error), Book-Ch8. TREC measures
2/6 Wed Vector-Space Retrieval Model I (ppt; pdf; note) Review of IR models; Book-Ch6; Book-Ch7; Zobel & Moffat 98
2/8 Fri Vector-Space Retrieval Model II (ppt; pdf; note) Book-Ch9
2/13 Wed Implementation Issues and TR systems (ppt; pdf; note) Book-Ch1-5 Assign #1 due; Assign #2 out
2/15 Fri Vector Space Model III (ppt; pdf; note) Book-Ch9
2/20 Wed Language Models for Text Retrieval (ppt; pdf; note) Book-Ch11-12 ; Zhai & Laffert 04; LM-IR Tutorial
2/22 Fri Feedback in Language Models I (ppt; pdf; note) Zhai & Lafferty 01 Note on KL-div Retrieval Model;
2/27 Wed Feedback in Language Models II (ppt ;pdf ; note) Zhai & Lafferty 01 Note on EM ; LM-IR Tutorial Assign #2 due; Assign #3 out
2/29 Fri Web search engines (ppt; pdf; note ) Book-Ch19-21 PageRank; Computation of PageRank;
3/5 Wed Web search engines (ppt; pdf; note ) Book-Ch19-21 PageRank; Computation of PageRank;
3/7 Fri Information Filtering (ppt; pdf;note ) Breese et al. 1998; Zhai et al. 98
3/12 Wed Project Topic Discussion (ppt) Sample project topics Assign #3 due
3/14 Fri Midterm Exam (in class, closed book) Topics ; sample from last year and solutions Extra credit Facebook assignment out

Organizing and Mining Text Information: Categorization, Clustering, and Extraction
3/19 Wed Spring Break
3/21 Fri Spring Break
3/26 Wed Probabilistic topic models I
Guest lecture by Qiaozhu Mei (ppt)
Zhai et al. 04 Assign #4 out; Project proposal due
3/28 Fri Probabilistic Topic Models II
Guest lecture by Qiaozhu Mei (ppt)
Zhai et al. 04; PLSA note
4/2 Wed Applications of Retrieval Techniques (ppt) Book-Ch13-17
4/4 Fri Text Categorization (ppt) Sebastiani's survey Book-Ch13-Ch15 Assign #5 out;
4/9 Wed Clustering (ppt) Book-Ch16-Ch18 Assign #4 due
4/11 Fri Hidden Markov Models (ppt) Rabiner 89 , A brief note
4/16 Wed Hidden Markov Models (ppt) Rabiner 89 , A brief note Facebook assignment survey form due
4/18 Fri User Interface and Visualization (ppt) Hearst's book chapter Assign #5 due
4/23 Wed Course Summary (ppt)
4/25 Fri Project Presentation I (Schedule) Guidelines on Presentation
4/30 Wed Project Presentation II (Schedule) Guidelines on Presentation
5/1 Thu Reading Day
5/7 Wed Project report due ; Literature review due