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CSA4020 - Multimedia Systems

Preamble

CSA4020 is a double credit (28-hour) lecture course which is given to final-year students in the Computer Science track of the B.Sc. (Hons.) I.T. degree awarded by the University of Malta. The course is split into 2 parts:

Please note that although there are only 17 lectures listed, some of them contain two lectures worth of material.

Previous Exams

References

Lecture 1: Introduction to Information Retrieval. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs)

Lecture 2: Indexing and Inverted Files. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs)

Lecture 3: Inverted Files (continued). Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs)

Lecture 4: Automatic Indexing and Performance Evaluation. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs)

Lecture 5: Statistical Models of Information Retrieval. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs, updated 16/10/03: modified slides 4-9, updated 17/10/03: replaced slide 3)

Lecture 6: Probabilistic Models of Information Retrieval. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs, updated 21/10/03: added slides 7-15, updated 28/10/03, modified slide 15)

Lecture 7: Term Relationships and Grouping. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs)

Lecture 8: Relevance Feedback. Available as PostScript or PDF. (OHPs, updated 4/11/03: modified slides 4-9)

Lecture 9: What do people want from information retrieval? This lecture is based on Bruce Croft's paper.

Lecture 10: Ubiquitous Multimedia Information Retrieval. Available as PDF. (NB: I no longer deliver this lecture)

A good introduction to the issues of Adaptive Hypertext, and a description of some AHSs is Brusilovsky, P. (1996) Methods and techniques of adaptive hypermedia. In User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 6 (2-3), pp. 87-129. Available on-line at: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~plb/UMUAI.ps. For User Modelling, see Kobsa, A. (1993): User Modeling: Recent Work, Prospects and Hazards. In: M. Schneider-Hufschmidt, T. Kühme and U. Malinowski, eds.: Adaptive User Interfaces: Principles and Practice. Amsterdam: North Holland Elsevier. Available online at: http://fit.gmd.de/~kobsa/papers/1993-aui-kobsa.pdf.

Lecture 11: Introduction to Adaptive Hypertext Systems.

Lecture 12: Problems that Adaptive Hypertext Systems attempt to solve.

Lecture 13: Solutions provided by Adaptive Hypertext Systems. (PDF version)

Lecture 14: The Dexter Hypertext Reference Model. (PDF version)

Lecture 15: Introduction to User Modelling. (PDF version)

Lecture 16: Closed-world AHSs using ITS as an example. (PDF version)

Lecture 17: The Architecture of a Generic AHS: Personal WebWatcher. (PDF version Uncompressed, Compressed)


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Date last amended: Tuesday 4th November, 2003