Computer Science 379.01
Fall 2003

Information Retrieval and Web Search

Instructor:

Xiannong Meng

Office:

323 Dana

Phone:

577-1214, x71214 on campus

Office Hours:

M 1:00-3:00 pm, WF 1:00 - 2:00 pm, T 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Lectures:

MTW 11:00 - 11:52 pm, 202 Dana

Email:

xmeng@bucknell.edu

Textbooks:

Required:

Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley, 1999

On-line book:

Information Retrieval by van Rijsbergen, 1979

References:

A list of other reference books and papers can be found at the course Web site.

Course Web site:

http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~xmeng/Course/CS379/

Expected Background:

Students are expected to have the CSCI 311 background and sufficient programming experiences in Java or C++.

Course Topics:

Information retrieval models, evaluations, query languages, query operations, text properties and operations, indexing and searching, user interface, and Web search application.

Course Grading:

Course grade is distributed as follows: two mid-term exams 15% of each, final exam 20%, research paper and presetation 10%, programming projects 30%, other homework and class participation 10%.