Units of CS5604 - Blacksburg

There are 11 units in this course, each with a 2-letter ID that symbolizes the main topical area considered. Each unit will be covered in 1-2 weeks of class time, has a set of associated readings, and has some lab or homework exercises that must be completed. Either 10 or 15 points, depending on the time and difficulty of the unit, will be given when mastery is demonstrated by a quiz grade of at least 90%.

• DL: Digital Libraries
  FOXE88d, SAMU91a, DONG87
  8/22, 8/24 (10 points)
• IR: Information Storage & Retrieval
  Ch1, SALT86a, Ch2
  8/29, 8/31 (10 points)
• IF: Inverted Files / Boolean Systems
  Ch3, Ch12, Ch15, SALT83d
  9/5, 9/7 [library], 9/12 (15 points)
• SS: String Searching
  Ch5, Ch10
  9/14, 9/19 (10 points)
• RR: Ranking / Relevance Feedback
  Ch14, SALT75b, Ch11
  9/21, 9/26, 9/28 [lab] (15 points)
• CL: Clustering
  Ch16
  10/3, 10/5 [lab] (10 points)
• IN: Indexing / Document Analysis
  Ch7, Ch8
  10/10 [lab], 10/12 (10 points)
• SD: SGML / Document Translation
  COOM87, MAMR87
  10/17, 10/19 (10 points)
• HT: Hypertext
  NIEL90a, HAAN92
  10/24, 10/26, 10/30 [MBONE] (15 points)
• MM: Multimedia
  FOXE91b, WALL91, PHIL91a, GREE92
  11/2 [lab], 11/7 [videotapes], 11/9 [lab / demos in Information Access Lab, McB 110], 11/14 (15 points)
• KB: Knowledge-Based Information Retrieval
  FURN87, LEBO88, MALO87a
  11/16 [lab], 11/28, 11/30 [lab] (15 points)