Date	Topic covered	Assignments
14-Jan	Class syllabus
	Introduction to information retrieval	Wikipedia - Information Retrieval
	Amount of information	http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/
21-Jan	No Class
28-Jan	Concept of a document	(all) Greengrass: 2.1.1-2.1.4, 2.1.6
	Specialty search engines	(all) van Rijsbergen: Ch 7, (up to Swets model) http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Chapter.7/Ch.7.html
	Retrieval evaluation	(graduate students required) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 8
	Group assignments	(all) Vertical Search White Paper" Slack Barsinger, http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST441/materials/papers/
	Exercise 1
4-Feb	Query models	(all) Greengrass: 3 & 4
	Properties of text	(all) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 1, Ch 2.1-2.2, Ch 5.1, Ch 20.1-20.2
	Crawling - robots.txt	(all) Robots.txt exclusion principle, http://www.robotstxt.org/
11-Feb	Classic information retrieval - vector models	(all) Greengrass: 6.1-6.4
	Similarity ranking	(all) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 6
	Exercise 2
	Exercise 1 due
18-Feb	Indexing	(all) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 1, Ch 4.1-4.2
		(graduate students required) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 4
25-Feb	Web search basics	(all) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 19.1-19.5
	Specialty search engine proposal presentations	(graduate students required) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: entire Ch 19
	Exercise 2 due
	Exercise 3
3-Mar	Search engines	(all) The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, S. Brin, L. Page, http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST441/materials/papers/
	Link analysis - Google	(all) http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
	Specialty search engine proposal presentations	(graduate students required) Manning, Raghavan, Schutze: Ch 21
10-Mar	No Class - Spring break
17-Mar	Social Networks	(all) Social Network Analysis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
	Exercise 3 due	(all) Chs 1-5, http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
	Exercise 4	(all) Reread Ch 19.2.1 Manning, Raghavan, Schutze
		(all) Social Networking Services, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking
24-Mar	XML	(all) "Introduction to XML," Read all in XML BASIC: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp
	Issues in advanced search	(all) TREC 2008, http://trec.nist.gov/call08.html
	Specialty search engine proposal updates
31-Mar	Review for exam
	Exercise 4 due
7-Apr	Exam
14-Apr	Specialty search engine presentations - groups	2, 13, 7, 9, 5
21-Apr	Specialty search engine presentations - groups	10, 1, 8, 12, 3
28-Apr	Specialty search engine presentations - groups	14, 11, 4, 6, 15