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Hacettepe University Department of Information Management

 

BBY220 Principles of Information Retrieval (Spring 2006)


Time and place: Wednesdays 9:30-11:20 (B8 1K 102)

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

Course web site: http://yunus.hacettepe.edu.tr/~tonta/courses/spring2006/bby220/ 


Course Objectives  | Reading List

Course Schedule

Note: Additional readings will be assigned when needed.

Week/Subject

1 Introduction to Course (22/2)

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)

Lecture slides

2 An Historical Approach to IR (1/3)

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.)

Lecture slides (Bir önceki haftanın slaytları)

3 Document Retrieval Systems (8/3)

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"

Read Tonta, “Bilgi Yönetiminin Kavramsal Tanımı ve Uygulama Alanları” (PDF copy) (Sunuş slaytları )

Lecture slides

4 Document Retrieval System Designs (15/3)

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

Lecture slides

5 Some Fundamental Concepts of IR (22/3)

Lecture slides

6 Midterm 1 (29/3) 

7 Document Retrieval System Evaluation (5/4)

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

Exercise: Boolean Operators

Internet Search Engines & IR Principles  (12/4) 

Read Tonta, Bitirim & Sever, Türkçe Arama Motorlarında Performans Değerlendirme,  Chapters 2 & 3; Gudivada

 Lecture  slides: Search engines 

9 Hypertext; The Indexing Problem (19/4)

 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 (26/4)

Brand, Daly ve Myers, Metadata demystified.

11 Logic and IR/Expert Systems/ Bibliometrics (3/5) 

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

12 Midterm(10/5)

13 Visual Information Retrieval (17/5)

Read: İrem Soydal, Umut Al ve Umut Sezen, "İçerik Tabanlı Görüntü Erişim Sistemleri" (Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems) Bilgi Dünyası, 6(2): 155-170, Ekim 2005.

Lecture  slides: Geographic Information Retrieval

14 Future of IR / Conclusion and Evaluation (24/5)

Lecture  slides: IR: Wrap-Up

 


Yaşar Tonta

tonta@hacettepe.edu.tr

Last updated:17 Mayıs 2006