INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2014
Module 2: Monday September 8 to Sunday September 14

This module takes us through the process of getting from a collection of text documents to the inverted index that we will use in the next module as a basis for ranked retrieval. The module is designed to be completed in 12 hours over 7 days. As with every module, you must complete all components of this module by midnight on the evening of the indicated end date for the module (in this case, Sunday, September 14).

Module Checklist

The recommended order for completing the activities in this module is:
  1. View the introductory video for this module.
  2. Read Chapter 2 of our MRS, but you can just skim section 2.3.
  3. View the first reading commentary video.
  4. Read Chapter 6 of our MRS textbook.
  5. View the second reading commentary video.
  6. Check ELMS to see if you have an additional reading summary assigned to you this week. If so, complete that summary by midnight Thursday and submit it using ELMS.
  7. View the Character Sets lecture video.
  8. View the Terms as Units of Meaning lecture video.
  9. View the Boolean Retrieval lecture video.
  10. View the Building an Index lecture video.
  11. Read the Lin an Dyer chapter, but you can just skim sections 4.4, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2..
  12. View the third reading commentary video.
  13. On Friday (or later), read and comment on the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
  14. View the Guest Cameo video by Mark Sanderson.
  15. Read Exercise E2.
  16. Watch the exercise explanation video for Exercise E2.
  17. Complete Exercise E2 and submit your results using ELMS.
  18. Watch the Project Overview video (6 minutes)
  19. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

This week we have three reading assignments.

Summaries of Additional Readings

Additional readings are assigned to five students. All students should read the five summaries once they are posted to ELMS, and all students other than those who wrote a summary this week should make a comment on the discussion board about at least one of the summaries (or about someone else's comment on one of them).

Videos

Here are the videos for this module:

Exercise E2

Finally, complete Exercise E2. Like all assignments that you are asked to turn in, this is due at midnight on the last day of the module (which is always a Sunday night). Note that you are allowed to work with other students on exercises, but you must type in the results yourself (no cut and paste -- see the course description for details).
Doug Oard
Last modified: Sat Oct 18 23:25:07 2014