Course Objectives | Reading List
Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.
Week/Subject
1 Introduction to Course (24/2)
Read Taylor, Chapters 1 & 2. (see Reading List for full citations)
2 An Historical Approach to IR (2/3)
Read Wells, H.G. "World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia," (http://art-bin.com/art/obrain.html). (Originally appeared in Encyclopédie Française, August 1937.)
Read Bush, V. "As We May Think" (http://w3c.bilkent.edu.tr/History/1945/vbush/) (Originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly, 1945.) (This seminal article is a difficult one but well worth reading if you can.)
3 Document Retrieval Systems (9/3)
Read Tonta, "Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri"; Buckland, Chapters 1, 8.
Homework: Web Search Engines (Due April 6, 2000 14:00)
Read Tonta, Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri.
4 Document Retrieval System Designs (6/4)
Read Taylor, Chapter 10.
Midterm 1
- Exercise: Boolean Operators
5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (13/4)
6 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (20/4)
Read Buckland, Chapter 10.
27/4 No class
7 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem; Metadata (4/5)
Read Buckland, Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8.
8 Internet Search Engines & IR Principles (11/5)
Read Gudivada
Midterm 2
9 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (18/5)
10 Visual Information Retrieval and the Future of IR/Conclusion and Evaluation (25/5)
Read Croft, "What Do People Want From Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995).