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)

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Course Objective

• Ph. D. Seminar Course

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Course Prerequisite

• CS/CEG Residency Research Status

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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.

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Course Load

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

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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)

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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)

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Grading

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

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Presentation Schedule 

TBA

T. K. Prasad (  26 Jan 2007 )