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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management

 

DOK 324 Principles of Information Retrieval (Fall 2003)


Time and place: Fridays 13:10-16:00 (Office)

Instructor: Yaþar Tonta (e-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr; tel: 297 82 04) 

Course web site: http://http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/fall2003/bby201/ 


Course Objectives  | Reading List

Course Schedule

Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.

Week/Subject

0 No class (10/10)

1 Introduction to Course (17/10)

Read Svenonius, Chapter 1; Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapters 1 & 2, Tonta, "Bilgi Eriþim Sorunlarý ve Internet" (see Reading List for full citations)

2 An Historical Approach to IR (24/10)

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://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm/) (Originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly, 1945.) (This seminal article is a difficult one but well worth reading if you can.)

3 Document Retrieval Systems (31/10)

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 Eriþim Sistemleri"

4 Document Retrieval System Designs (07/11)

Read Svenonius, Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapter 10.

Read Danskin & Chapman, Bibliographic Records in the Computer Age.. Full report of IFLA’s Study Group on Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records can also be skimmed through.

Exercise: Boolean Operators

5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (14/11)

6 Midterm 1 (21/11) 

7 Holiday (28/11) 

8 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (05/12)

Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 3; Buckland, Chapter 10. 

 9 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem; Metadata (12/12) 

 Read Buckland, Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8; Brand, Daly ve Myers, Metadata demystified.

10  Internet Search Engines & IR Principles (19/12)

Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada

11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (26/12)

Read Croft, "What Do People Want From Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995). 

12  Midterm 2  (02/01) 

13  Visual Information Retrieval and the Future of IR/Conclusion and Evaluation (09/01) 


Yaþar Tonta

tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr

Last updated: Oct 16, 2003