CSC7251 Project I

PTMSC Project I, Spring 2001

Date	Time	Venue
T.B.A.	6:30 pm - 9:30 pm	ITTC Conference Room

Irwin King
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, New Territories

Course Description

Note: This class will be taught in English. Homework assignments and examinations will be conducted in English.

Personnel

	Lecturer
Name	Irwin King
Email	king@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Office	Rm 908
Telephone	2609 8398
Office Hour(s)	T.B.A.

Syllabus

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Week	Date	Topics	Presentation [Presentation Directory]	Homework & Events	Resources
1	Saturday, 2001/1/6 Multimedia Lab, CUHK	Introduction			CSC5250 Information Retrieval and Search Engines
2	Tuesday, 2001/2/13 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm ITTC Conference Room	Paper Presentation	Kan Yeuk Ming (i) IR\coling92.pdf ­ Yiming Yang, Christopher G.Chute. A Linear Least Squares Fit Mapping Method for Information Retrieval from Natural Language Texts. (ii) IR\sigir93.pdf ­ Yiming Yang, Christopher G. Chute. An Application of Least Squares Fit Mapping To Text Information Retrieval. Edmond Chan Building a better search engine. Lawrence Lau Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering Lawrence Lau Structured graph format: XML metadata for describing Web site structure. Francis Wong 1) A linear Least Squares fit mapping method for IR from natural language texts Yang Y., Chute C., 2) Discovering Chinese Words from Unsegmented Text by Ge X, Pratt, Smyth P. Kevin Liu Tat Kin Learning to extract symbolic knowledge from the WWW Edward Yau Efficient Identification of Web Communities	You are asked to select a few papers from the resources directories to read before our next meeting. You will be asked to present the paper you have selected and see whether it will suit your interest. Please send me your presentation topic ASAP. Once you have selected a topic, we will move ahead and define the scope of the project.	IEL Online Document Directory I Document Directory II Information Retreival System Related Text Categorization Web Computing Seach WWW Page WWW9 Proceedings WWW8 Proceedings WWW7 Proceedings WWW6 Proceedings WWW5 Proceedings WWW4 Proceedings WWW3 Proceedings WWW2 Proceedings WWW1 Proceedings Research Articles How to be a good graduate student How to present a paper How to review a paper TeX Introduction LaTeX 2e Introduction Criteical Reading and Writing
3	Tueday, 2001/3/13 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm ITTC Conference Room	Paper Presentation	Eric Cheung Chinese Text Retrieval Without Using a Dictionary Eric Siu PAT-Tree-Based Keyword Extraction for Chinese Information Retrieval Gary Lau Web search on graphics based on shape by a feature weight adjustment algo.
	Saturday 2001/3/31		Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong  9:30 am    10:00 am  10:30 am  Lawrence Lau (Hang Wai)  11:00 am  Off Limits  11:30 am  Off Limits  12:00 am
	Tuesday 2001/4/3		Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong  8:00 pm  Lawrence Lau  8:30 pm    9:00 pm    9:30 pm
	Saturday 2001/4/7		Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong  9:30 am  Kan Yeuk Ming  10:00 am  Edmond Chan  10:30 am  Kevin Liu  11:00 am  Gary Lau  11:30 am  Francis Wong
4	2001/4/10	Midterm Progress Report	Venue: ITTC, TST  6:00 pm  LAU CHO LEUNG, Lawrence 6:20   Siu Kwun Wang  6:40   Kan Yeuk Ming  7:00   Gary Lau  7:20  Eric Cheung  7:40   LAU, Hang Wai (Lawrence)  8:00  Edmond Chan  8:20  Kevin Liu  8:40    9:00    9:20
	2001/4/21		Venue: The Chinese University of Hong Kong  10:30 am  Ben So  11:00 am Terry  11:30 am  Francis Wong  12:00 pm    12:30 am
5	2001/5/7	Midterm Report
6	2001/6/12
7	2001/7/10	Final Report
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Examination Schedule

	Date and Time	Venue
Midterm Examination	No mideterm examination	N.A.
Final Examination	No final examination	N.A.

Grade Assessment

1. Significance (10%)
   1. Purpose
   2. Motivation
   3. Justification
   4. Contributions
2. Novelty (10%)
   1. Uniqueness
   2. Differentiation with other known methods
3. Clarity (20%)
   1. Problem definition
   2. Proposed solution
4. Quality (20%)
   1. Grammar, spelling, dictions, etc.
   2. Section completeness
   3. References
   4. Program code
5. Amount of Work (20%)
   1. Background survey
   2. Programming
   3. Figures and tables
6. Demonstration (20%)
   1. Presentation
   2. Content

Required Background

• None.

Reference Books

• None.

Book Sources

• Academic & Professional Book Centre, 1H Cheong Ming Bldg., 80-86 Argyle St., Kowloon, 2398-2191, 2391-7430 (fax)
• Caves Books (H. K.), 4B Ferry St., G/F., Yaumatei, Kowloon, 2780-0987, 2771-2298
• Man Yuen Book Company, 45 Parkes street, Jordan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 2366-0594
  Not very large, Asian edition books, fair price, wide range, some 10% discount.
• Swindon Book Co. Ltd, 13-15 Lock Road, Tsim Sha Tsiu, Kowloon, 2366-8001
  One of the largest book stores in Hong Kong, exchange rate is not favorable.
• Hongkong Book Centre, 522-7064
  A branch of the Swindon book shop

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Q: What is departmental guideline for plagiarism?
   A: If a student is found plagiarizing, his/her case will be reported to the Department Discipline Committee. If the case is proven after deliberation, the student will automatically fail the course in which he/she committed plagiarism. The definition of plagiarism includes copying of the whole or parts of written assignments, programming exercises, reports, quiz papers, mid-term examinations. The penalty will apply to both the one who copies the work and the one whose work is being copied, unless the latter can prove his/her work has been copied unwittingly. Furthermore, inclusion of others' works or results without citation in assignments and reports is also regarded as plagiarism with similar penalty to the offender. A student caught plagiarizing during tests or examinations will be reported to the Faculty Office and appropriate disciplinary authorities for further action, in addition to failing the course.

Resources

1. On digital watermarking for music media--Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) watermarking and its hacks.
2. On distributed computing--SETI@home, Search for Extraterristrial Intelligence.