Computer Science 221: Information Retrieval

Winter 2009-2010

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

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Assignment 06

  1. Goals:
    1. This assignment is designed to have you:
      1. Expand on one of the topics that interested you from the course.
  2. Administration:
    1. You may work in teams of 1, 2 or 3, no restrictions on membership.
  3. Propose a project, for example:
    1. Calculate the PageRank of the pages in wikipedia.
    2. Create an image based search
      1. Query is an image
      2. Output is ten images
      3. TDIDF matrix is replaced by a matrix of features of your choosing:
        1. Maybe a color histogram
        2. Maybe SIFT features
    3. Create an audio based search
      1. Query is a sound file (user humming?)
      2. Output is ten songs
      3. TDIF matrix is replace by a matrix of features of your choosing:
        1. Pitch, Beat, etc.
        2. Meta-data,reviews etc
    4. Something else?
  4. Prepare a report and presentation of the results
    1. Prepare a report of your findings.
      1. This depends on what your project is, but somewhere between 5 and 15 page description of what you did, how you did it and what your results are would be appropriate.
    2. Present a demo/powerpoint presentation of your project in person.
      1. If you choose to use PowerPoint, no more than 3 slides/roughly 10 minutes.
      2. Be prepared to answer questions about the software for about 30 additional minutes.
      3. The goal of this is to communicate to me what you accomplished and help me to understand what you did.
  5. Submitting your assignment
    1. Pick a slot during finals week when you can present your results and turn in your report