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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
BBY220 Principles of Information Retrieval (Spring 2005)
Time and place: Wednesdays 09:10-12:00 (B8 1K 102)
Instructor:
Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2005/bby220/
Course Objectives | Reading List
Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.
Week/Subject
1 Introduction to Course (23/2)
Read Svenonius, Chapter 1; Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapters 1 & 2, Tonta, "Bilgi Erişim Sorunları ve Internet" (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" (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 Buckland’s
articles entitled: “Information as thing”, “What is a
‘document’”? and “What is a
‘digital document’”? (the last two are similar)
Buckland, Chapter 8.
Read Tonta,
"Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri"
4 Document Retrieval System Designs
(16/3)
Read Svenonius,
Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapter 10.
Read Tonta, Bibliyografik Kayıtlar İçin İşlevsel Gerekler (FRBR) Kavramsal Modeli and skim through the full report of IFLA’s Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR
(23/3)
6 Midterm
1 (30/3)
7 Document Retrieval System Evaluation
(6/4)
Read Tonta,
"Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri"; Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Türkçe
Arama Motorlarında Performans Değerlendirme, Chapter 3; Buckland, Chapter 10; Cooper, W.S. "Getting Beyond
Boole." Information Processing & Management 24(3): 243-248, 1988.
Lecture
slides:Bilgi Erişim Performans Ölçüleri;
Lecture
slides:Erişim Kuralları
Lecture
slides: IR
Models: Boolean and Vector Space
8 Internet Search Engines & IR
Principles (13/4)
Read Tonta, Bitirim
& Sever, Türkçe
Arama Motorlarında Performans Değerlendirme, Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada
Lecture
slides: Search engines
9 Hypertext;
The
Indexing Problem (20/4)
Read Buckland,
Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8; Blair & Maron
Lecture
slides: Content Analysis and Stemming
Lecture
slides: Re-evaluation of IR systems
10 Metadata (27/4)
Brand, Daly ve Myers,
Metadata
demystified.
11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/
Bibliometrics (4/5)
Read Croft, "What Do People Want From
Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995).
12 Midterm
2 (11/5)
13 Visual Information Retrieval (18/5)
Lecture
slides: Geographic Information Retrieval
14 Future of IR / Conclusion and Evaluation (25/5)
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updated: May 25, 2005