Information Science 220
Information Storage and Retrieval
Fall 2013
Instructor: David Vampola
Office: 424 Shineman Center
Email: vampola@cs. oswego. edu
Telephone: (315) 312-2689 (Note that I do not have voicemail)
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 - 11:00 and Friday: 8:00 - 9:00 and by appointment
Website: www.cs.oswego.edu/~vampola
Course Description/Objectives:
Consideration of the basic principles and tools for analysis and retrieval of information in various information systems (both textual and database systems). Topics include analysis and storage of information, retrieval concepts and types of retrieval systems.
Texts:
Manning, Christopher et al. Introduction to Information Retrieval (Cambrdge: Cambridge Unversity Press, 2008)
PLEASE NOTE:There will be additional materials assigned in the course.
Evaluation:
Midterm
Examination 20%
Final Examination 30%
Quizzes 5%
Course
Assignments 20%
Final Project 25%
Personal
Responsibility:
It is expected that the student will assume responsibility for his/her performance in the course. Hence, it is incumbent on the student to bring any problems that he/she might be having in completing the required coursework to the attention of the instruction as soon as possible.
Students
with Disabilities:
Those students who need special consideration for whatever reason should notify the Office of Disability Services at the beginning of the semester.
Course Outline
Basic Text Storage and Retrieval
I.
Boolean Seaching
Reading: Manning, Chapter 1, Regular expressions and grep readings
Text
with Markup/Metadata
2.
Vocabulary and Indexing
Reading: Manning, Chapters 2 - 5
3.
Scoring and term weighting
Reading: Manning, Chapters 6-7
4.
Evaluation and relevance
Reading: Manning, Chapters 8-9
5.
Probabilistic, Bayesian and Vector Approaches
Reading: SKIM Manning, Chapters 11-12
6.
Topics in Web Information Retrieval
Reading: Manning, Chapter 10; Chapters 19-21; Also hand-outs on HTML and XML
Databases
Reading:
Web resources on Databases
Networked Information: Web Documents
7.
Information Architecture
Reading: Web resources on Information Architecture
Networked
Information: Social Networks
8 Retrieving information from the Social Web
Reading: Reading from “Social Networks for Startups” (On reserve)