| Date
| Topics
| Readings
| Assignment
out
| Slides
| Adobe Connect
Recording
|
| Week 1: March 29, 31
| Intro to TREC, Retrieval & Q/A
Task; Software
| J & M 23-23.2
[Hirschman and Gaizauskas, 2001]
[Hovy et al, 2001a]
[Hovy et al, 2001b]
| Deliverable #1 out: 4/1:
Due April 5, 11:59 pm
| 3/29 pptx pdf
3/31 pptx pdf
| Recording 3/29
Offline Recording
Recording 3/31
Offline Recording 3/31
|
| April 5
| Task refinement; Evaluation
| [Harabagiu et al., 2005]
[Dumais et al., 2002]
Hovy et al., 2002
Soubbotin, 2001
| Deliverable #2 out:
Due April 19
| pptx
pdf
| Recording
Offline Recording
|
| Week 2,3: April 7, 12, 14
| Question Processing;
Question classification
Query formulation
| Li and Roth, 2005
Krishnan et al, 2005
Zhang and Lee, 2003
Hacioglu and Ward, 2003
Huang, Thint, Qin, 2008
Kwok, Etzioni, and Weld, 2001
Lin, 2007
Fang, 2008
|
| pptx 4/7 pdf 4/7
pptx 4/12 pdf 4/12
pptx 4/14 pdf 4/14
| Recording 4/7 Offline Recording 4/7
Recording 4/12 Offline Recording 4/12
Recording 4/14 Offline Recording 4/14
|
| Week 4: April 19, 21
| Deliverable 2 presentations
Retrieval
|
| Deliverable #3 out:4/22:
Due 5/10: 09:00
| Team9
Team4 Team7
Team8
Team3 Team2
Team6 (Google) Team1
Team5
| Recording 4/21 Offline Recording 4/21
|
| Week 5: April 26, 28
| Search and Passage Retrieval
| Jurafsky&Martin, Ch. 23.1
Xu and Croft, 1996
Tellex et al, 2003
Documentation for lemur/indri,
esp. see QuickStart
|
| pptx 4/26 pdf 4/26
pptx 4/28 pdf 4/28
| Recording 4/26 Offline Recording 4/26
Recordings 4/28 Offline Recording
|
| Week 6: May 3, 5
| Passage Retrieval
and Re-ranking (cont'd)
| Ramakrishnan et al, 2004
Cui et al, 2005
Aktolga et al, 2011
Tiedemann et al, 2008
|
| pptx 5/3 pdf 5/3
pptx 5/5 pdf 5/5
| Recording 5/3 Offline Recording 5/3
Recording Offline Recording 5/5
|
| Week 7: May 10, 12
| Deliverable 3 project presentations
|
| Deliverable #4 out:
Code, results due: 5/31: 09:00
Final reports due: 6/7
| Overview Overview pdf
Group8 Group4
Group3 Group7
Group2 Group9
Group6
| Recording Offline Recording (Sound?)
Recording Offline Recording 5/12
|
Week 8: May 17, 19
Week 9: May 24, 26
| Answer extraction, ranking
| Echihabi et al, 2005
Ravichadran et al, 2003
ARANEA Download
Shen and Lapata, 2007
Razmara et al, 2007
Mishne and De Rijk, 2005
|
| pptx 5/17 pdf 5/17
pptx 5/19 pdf 5/19
pptx 5/24 pdf 5/24
| Recording 5/17 Offline Recording 5/17
Recording 5/19 Offline Recording
Recording 5/24 Offline Recording 5/24
Recording 5/26 Offline Recording 5/26
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| Week 10: May 31, June 2
| Final presentations
|
|
| Group 4 Group 8
Group 3 Group 1
Group 2 Group 7
Group 6 Summary
| Recording 5/31 Offline Recording 5/31
Recording 6/2 Offline Recording 6/2
|