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| open question | 2009-09-29 11:38 |
Posted by: Josiah 
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Cohort: 2010 |
| Tags: Classes IMT - Information Management | |
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| Anyone have thoughts or heard anything interesting about Efthi's IMT 542 class? | |
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| Reply by: anonymous, cohort 2009 | 2009-10-27 22:36 |
| It's a painful class. Beware. While it's a decent overview for what search is, the project will cause you neverending headaches because Efthi likes to shift the parameters on you CONSTANTLY so that you never know which end's up. | |
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| Reply by: anonymous, cohort 2011 | 2009-10-06 16:22 |
| Module 1: Introduction to IR Overview of the components of an IRS. Queries, Documents, Indexing. Theories & Models in IR (Retrieval Techniques) for text, hypermedia, web. Assignments 1 given. Module 2: Document Analysis Queries and information needs. Exploring Google Search. Document analysis. Structure of documents, parsing, stemming, morphological analysis, tokenization. Due: Assignment 1: Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing Search Exercise Assignments 2 and 3 given. Module 3: Retrieval Techniques, Part I Exact match vs. partial match weighted ranked retrieval. Vector space & probabilistic retrieval models. Relevance feedback. Due: Assignment 2: Document Analysis and Inverted Files Due: Project: Start discussion with Project ideas in GoPost Due: Project: Present ideas in class Due: Project: Group formation during lab time (not graded) Module 4: Retrieval Techniques, Part II Query processing for IR (query formulation, expansion, and refinement). Due: Assignment 3: Using the IR Toolbox: Tokenization and Stemming Assignment 4 given. Due: Project: Pre-proposal Module 5: Evaluation of IR Systems, Part I Performance measures. Relevance. Testing and test collections (testbeds, e.g., TREC test collections). User centered evaluation of IR systems. Evaluating exploratory search systems. Due: Assignment 4: Using the IR Toolbox: Searching an Index Due: Project: Proposal SharePoint portal Due: Project: "In-class" proposal presentation Assignment 5 given. Module 6: Evaluation of IR Systems, Part II Performance measures. Relevance. Testing and test collections (testbeds, e.g., TREC test collections). User centered evaluation of IR systems. Evaluating exploratory search systems. Due: Project: Progress report Module 7: Web Search, Part I Hypertext, Internet search engines, link analysis. Due: Assignment 5: Using the IR Toolbox: Conduct a Simple IR System Performance Experiment Due: Project: Progress report Module 8: Web Search, Part II Crawlers, web graphs. Log analysis, evaluation revisited. Due: Project: Progress report Module 9 Faceted search, social tagging and bookmarking, personalization. Due: Project: Progress report NO Class -- Thanksgiving Holiday Module 10: Search Advertising Module 11: Presentations and Wrap-Up Due: Project: Final oral presentation Due: Project: Final report * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Efthimis N. Efthimiadis <efthimis@u.washington.edu> | |
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Reply by: Jasper , cohort 2010 |
2009-10-06 09:16 |
| Besides the information given by Efthi through that one email I have not heard anything. His description of the course and its topics was quite intriguing but I ended up taking another class (INFX 538) instead. | |
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Reply by: vivek venkatramani , cohort 2010 |
2009-09-29 23:20 |
| I was also looking at the class and was wondering if someone could give some more info about it. @jos thanks for starting this | |
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