Course Objectives | Reading List
Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.
Week/Subject
1 Introduction to Course (26/2)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 2; Taylor, Chapters 1 & 2, Tonta, "Bilgi Erişim Sorunları ve Internet" and Tonta "Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri" (see Reading List for full citations)
2 An Historical Approach to IR (5/3)
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 (12/3)
Read Tonta, "Bilgi Erişim Sistemleri"; Buckland, Chapter 8.
4 Document Retrieval System Designs (19/3)
Read Taylor, Chapter 10.
5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (26/3)
6 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (2/4)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 3; Buckland, Chapter 10.
7 Midterm 1 (9/4)
8 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem; Metadata (16/4)
Read Buckland, Chapter 12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8.9 23/4 Holiday
10 Internet Search Engines & IR Principles (30/4)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada
11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (7/5)
Read Croft, "What Do People Want From Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995).
12 Midterm 2 (14/5)
13 Visual Information Retrieval and the Future of IR/Conclusion and Evaluation (21/5)
14 Wrap-up (28/5)