Wiki for DLRL Virginia Tech: InformationStorageRetrieval

Information Storage and Retrieval

CS 5604 Fall 2009

NOTE: The main information for this course is available from http://scholar.vt.edu for students enrolled in the class. This page just provides some general information for public use.

Section:

CRN 96948 meets in Mc Bryde Hall room 307, Mo+We 2:30-3:45pm
Final 14M: 10:05-12:05 on 14 Dec

Instructor: Edward A. Fox (http://fox.cs.vt.edu)

Office: 2160G Torgersen Hall (enter door to 2160 across from door to 2150)
Phone: (540) 231-5113
Email: fox@vt.edu
Office Hours: TBD, plus by appointment
Secretary: Susie Marion, x1-1187, 2160H Torgersen Hall, smarion@vt.edu (for appointments, to leave things)

GTA: none

Book:

The required textbook: Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze
- 2008, 496 pages, Cambridge University Press, ISBN-10: 0521865719, ISBN-13: 978-0521865715
- See online versions, slides, etc.: http://www.informationretrieval.org
- See CUP info including about ebook: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521865715
- See author's info: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/lehre/teaching/2009-SS/ir/, including PDF versions of textbook chapters
- Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Christopher-Manning/dp/0521865719

Online Courseware / Communications:

Listserv email is to CS5604_96948@listserv.vt.edu
Scholar is at https://scholar.vt.edu
Study pages IsrConceptMapsE
Twitter account, that you can follow, is CS5604F09

Application Projects:

2007: List of candidate projects - IsRprojListC, Info on contracts - IsRcontractsC, IsRdemosC
2004: IsRcontractsB shows the contracts for 2004 projects
2002: Final report page http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~cs5604/fall_2002/; resulting from IsRcontracts resulting from selection from the IsrProjectList with IsrFinalPresentations
2001: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs5604/f01/projects/index.htm

Special Links:

Team Based Learning is carried out as described at http://www.teambasedlearning.org/.
For audioconferencing use Centra One at http://www.vto.vt.edu/centra.php
IR Summer School Lectures at http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs5604/f01/lectures/index.html
VtHonorCode
Regular (Old) Home Page for this Course: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs5604
Prior CS5604 sites: S2008 - IsR2008, S2007 - IsR2007, F2004 - IsR2004, F2002 - IsR2002, S2004 - Prof. Ramakrishnan - http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs5604/