20-760: Web-Based Information Architectures

Date	Topic	Reading	Handouts
Oct 23	IR systems, functional view	Chapters 1 and 2 of the Textbook	lecture1
Oct 28	IR under the hood 1: Vector Space Model, term weighting, evaluation and query expansion		lecture2
	IR under the hood 2: Generalized Vector Space Model and Maximal Marginal Relevance
	Applying IR to Ecommerce
	Distributed Information Retrieval Special Guest Lecturer: Dr. Jaime Callan
	Text Categorization: k Nearest Neighbour Algorithm Special Guest Lecturer: Paul Bennett
	Building Web Spiders
	Midterm Exam (in-class)
	Text Extraction & Mining
	Introduction to Data Mining
	Speech Processing: Recognition and Synthesis Special Guest Lecturer: Dr. Alan Black
	Business Applications for Information Retrieval and Data Mining
	Project Presentations by Students
Dec 13 2:00pm-5:00pm	Final Exam	-

Schedule