CA437
MultiMedia Information Retrieval
The Results of the Continuous Assessment
The result of the Student Survey of Teaching for CA437 is now online.
The course specification on the Computer Applications website.
The Course is divided into in 5 Chapters, the notes are available in pdf format here:
Chapter 1: (pdf): Introduction to Information Retrieval [overheads week1, week2]
Chapter 2: (pdf A & B): Hypertext, the WWW and XML [overheads week2, week3, week4]
Chapter 3: (pdf A, AA, B & C): Content retrieval of Text [overheads week4, week5, week6, week7]
Chapter 5: (pdf): Content Retrieval of non-text information [week10, week11]
A4 size notes: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4a, Chapter 4b, Chapter 5.
Links I suggest during lectures.
Some extra information on SVG files.
Some overheads illustrating where TF-IDF and BM25 weights fit into the indexing and searching process of an IR system.
Some extra notes on XML and the recipe example as well.
The overheads I was using to explain Linkage Analysis in class.
The overheads from the extra section on combining Linkage and Content evidence at query time.
The overheads from the brief review of Linkage IR.
The overheads discussing the exam.
Exam Papers (CA414): Spring 97 | Autumn 97 | Spring 98 | Autumn 98 | Spring 99 | Autumn 99 | Spring 00 | Autumn 00 | Spring 02 | Autumn 02
- Recommeded Reading -
There are a number of books which would make for very useful reading. All links are to the most recent editions on www.amazon.com. You should also find these in the library:
- Modern Information Retrieval (Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto)
- Understanding Search Engines : Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval (Berry & Browne)
- NEWS -
- Project deadline is Friday 20th December at 5pm. However, I will also be in DCU on Monday morning after 9am to collect any additional projects that I may have missed on Friday afternoon... :) ... Please place the projects in the appropriate locker in L1.14.
- Day Students : I will review some aspects of the course on Thursday and on Friday I will examine and discuss the exam, formats, etc...
- Architecture Project : For those of you doing the architecture project can you hand it up in hard copy form as well as putting it on your website in softcopy form... in a file called MMIS-essay.html. This is similar to (some of) the requirements for the general essay project.
- Essay Title and Scope deadline moved to Friday 7th December. Have a look at chapter 5 and see if you want to do an essay on anything therein.
- Project NEWS : I will discuss continuous assignment requirements in class this week. If doing the essay, see the instructions for the continuous assessment essay and a template for the essay.
- Friday morning lectures have been moved from CG86 to QG15. The time has also changed from 9am to 11am.