Computer Science 221: Information Retrieval

Spring 2007

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

University of California, Irvine

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Assignment Schedule:

 

Weekly Materials
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F
Week #1
April 2
3
4
5
6
Introduction and Markov Models
 

Lecture 01

Introduction

 

Lecture 02

Markov Models

Notes

Board

homework dueAssignment 1 due

Week #2
9
10
11
12
13

Markov Models

 

Lecture 03

Classifying with Markov Models

Smoothing with Markov Models

Notes

Board

 

Lecture 04

Markov Models

N-Fold Classification

Latent Semantic Indexing

Notes

Board

homework dueAssignment 2 due

Week #3
16
17
18
19
20

Latent Semantic Indexing

 

Lecture 05

LSI

Notes

Board

 

Lecture 06

LSI

Notes

Board

 

Week #4
23
24
25
26
27

LSI and Hidden Markov Models

 

Lecture 07

LSI in Matlab

Notes (with matlab scripts)

Board

 

Lecture 08

Hidden Markov Model

Notes

Board

 

 

Week #5
30
May 1
2
3
4

Hidden Markov Models

 

Lecture 09

HMM Key Problems

Notes

Board

 

Lecture 10

HMM Key Problems

Notes

Board

homework dueAssignment 3 due

Week #6
7
8
9
10
11

HMMs and Dynamic Bayesian Networks

 

Lecture 11

HMM Key Problem 3

Notes

Board

 

Lecture 12

Factoring state space and DBNs

Notes

Slides and Board

 

Week #7
14
15
16
17
18

GMTK

 

Lecture 13

no class

 

Lecture 14

GMTK

Notes

Slides

 

Week #8
21
22
23
24
25

Particle Filters

   

Lecture 16

Notes

Slides

 

Week #9
28
29
30
31
June 1

More Particle Filters

 

Lecture 17

Notes

Slides

 

 

 

Lecture 18

Particle Filter presentations:

1) Robust Monte Carlo Localization for Mobile Robots

Artificial Intelligence (AI), 2000 (?)

2) Particle Filters for Location Estimation in
Ubiquitous Computing: A Case Study
(?)

 

 

homework dueAssignment 4 due

GMTK on Place Lab

Week #10
4
5
6
7
8

Collaborative Filtering

 

Lecture 19

Collaborative Filtering Presentations

1) Chapter 2 of Marlin's Thesis:Collaborative Filtering: A Machine Learning Perspective (Formulations) (Sara)

* Slides

2)Incremental Singular Value Decomposition Algorithms for Highly Scalable Recommender Systems (Sameer)

* Slides (PDF, PPTX)

 

 

Lecture 20

Collborative Filtering Presentation

1) Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Nathan)

Slides

2)Chapter 6 of Marlin's Thesis

(Dimensionality Reduction) (Chaitanya)

Slides 1

Slides 2

 

Finals Week
11
12
13
14
15

     

Assignment 5

Particle Filter Implementation

 

Final Exam Slot

8:00am - 10:am