Course Objectives  | Reading List

Course Schedule

Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.

Week/Subject

1 Introduction to Course (23/2)

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.)

9/3 Holiday

3 Document Retrieval Systems (16/3)

Read Tonta, "Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri"; Buckland, Chapter 8.

 

23/3 No class

 

30/3 Library Week?? 

 

(I'll let you know if we will meet during this week when the program is available.)

4 Document Retrieval System Designs (6/4)

Read Taylor, Chapter 10.

Exercise: Boolean Operators

5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (13/4)

Midterm 1

20/4 No class

6 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (27/4)

Read Buckland, Chapter 10. 

7 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem; Metadata (4/5)

Read Buckland, Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8.

Exercise: Performance Evaluation of Search Engines

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). 

Yaşar Tonta

tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr

Last updated: Feb 18, 2001