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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
DOK 324 Principles of Information Retrieval (Spring 2004)
Time and place: Wednesdays 09:10-12:00 (B8 1K 102)
Instructor: Yaþar Tonta (e-mail: tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr; tel: 297 82 04)
Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2004/dok324/
Course Objectives | Reading List
Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.
Week/Subject
1 Introduction to Course (18/2)
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 (25/2)
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 (3/3)
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 Eriþim Sistemleri"
4 Document Retrieval System Designs (10/3)
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.
5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (17/3)
6 Midterm 1 (24/3)
7 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (31/3)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapter 3; Buckland, Chapter 10.
8 Internet Search Engines & IR Principles (7/4)
Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada
9 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem (14/4)
Read Buckland, Chapter
12; Taylor, Chapters 5, 7-8;
10 Metadata (21/4)
Brand, Daly ve Myers, Metadata demystified.
11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (28/4)
Read Croft, "What
Do People Want From Information Retrieval?" D-Lib Magazine (November 1995).
12 Midterm 2 (5/5)
13 Visual Information Retrieval (12/5)
14 Future of IR / Conclusion and Evaluation (17/5)
Yaþar Tonta
Last updated: Feb 17, 2004