CS891 Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Management

Instructor: T. K. Prasad
Phone No.: (937)-775-5109
Email: t.k.prasad@wright.edu
Home Page: http://www.cs.wright.edu/~tkprasad

Quarter: Winter, 2007
Class Hrs: TBA.
Office Hrs: TBA. 395 Joshi Research Center / 337 Russ Center(or by appointment)

Course Objective

Ph. D. Seminar Course

Course Prerequisite

CS/CEG Residency Research Status

Course Description

This course expects an advanced Ph.D. student to (i) review background material in the area of Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Management, and (ii) develop/deliver a presentation on a mutually acceptable topic.

Course Load

The course load includes a presentation (with descriptive notes).

Texts

"Introduction to Information Retrieval". C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze. Cambridge Univ Publisher, 2007.
ISBN 0521865719 (required if available)
“Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images,” by Ian Witten, Alistair Moffat and Timothy Bell .
Morgan Kaufman, 1999. ISBN 1-55860-570-3 (required)
“Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing ,” by Christopher Manning, Hinrish Schutze, MIT Press. ISBN 0262133601 (reference)

Reference URLs

Singular Value Decomposition (http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/will/svd/index.html)
Information Retrieval and Web Mining (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs276/cs276-2006-syllabus.html)

Grading

The P/U letter grade will be assigned at the end of the course.

Presentation Schedule

TBA

T. K. Prasad ( 26 Jan 2007 )