Digital Libraries and Language Technologies: A.A. 11-12
Students interested in the course are required to fill in the form and send it to the lecturer
Lectures time is indicated in the table below. They take place usually in room 06 in Palazzo Verdi, P.zza Venezia. For up to date information check: here
- 20-03-2012
- The course starts on the 26th of March
Text Books and Softwares ^
Text Books:
- Michael Lesk, Understanding Digital Libraries, Morgan Kaufmann, 2004 (Second Edition), ISBN 1-55860-924-5.
- Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols How to build a Digital Library, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003, ISBN 1-55860-790-0
- Richard K. Belew Finding Out About, Cambridge, 2000
- Chrisopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge, 2009
- William Miller, Rita M. Pellen (eds). Libraries and Google The Haworth Information Press.
Further readings:
- Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy Bell Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
- Alberto Salarelli, Anna Maria Tammaro, La biblioteca digitale. Nuova edizione (2006). SBN 978-88-7075-626-5
Softwares:
We will be doing exercises with Greenstone software to practice with library meta-data
Slides ^
The Slides used during the lecturs will be upload in the table below after each lecture.| Slides | Topic | Extra Teaching Material | Credits | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to DL | DL: what, when, who, and how. (Lesk: Ch.1) | Where do we go from
here? History of Digital Libraries | Vittorio Casarosa, Lora Aroyo, Laura Zanette | |
| 2 | OPAC | OPAC, Metadata, Marc and Dublin Core, BibTex, RIS, Authority Control,
LCSH, DDC, today categories (Google,
Wikipedia etc.); (Witten: Ch. 6), (Lesk: 5.1), (Salarelli: Ch.IX) | Dublin Core Tutorial MARC Tutorial Metadata Decision for DL | Vittorio Casarosa | |
| 3 | Interoperability | Query Language, the Z39.50 and OAI-PMH
protocols (Witten: Ch.7) Exercises with Greenstone |
Conceptual ModelOA-Forum
tutorial Z39.50 History Z39.50 Introduction OAI-PMH | Vittorio Casarosa | |
| 4 IMP | Indexing and Querying | Indexing, Information Retrieval, Precision,
Recall, Boolean Model (FOA Ch.1), (Intro to IR: Ch. 1) | Indexing and Query
extra Searching in Metric Spaces | Bernardo Magnini, Intro to IR'authors (slides) and Richard Belew | |
| 5 IMP | Language Technologies | Text Pre-processing; Term weighting, Vector Space Model,
(FOA, Ch. 2, Ch. 3), (Intro to IR: Ch. 2 (2.1-2.4), Ch. 6) | Lecture on Regular Expression (B. Magnini) | Bernardo Magnini and Richard Belew | |
| 6 IMP | Exercises on tf-idf, sim measures, Evaluation Measures | Richard Belew | |||
| 7 IMP | Ranked Evaluation | Interpolated Precision, 11-point interpolated avarage precsione, etc., Annotator Agreement measures (Intro to IR: Ch 8.) | Dell Zhang, Intro to IR'authors (slides), Susan Price and David Maier | ||
| 8 IMP | Exercises | Ranked P/R and Annotator
Agreement Create a Graph | Enrico Bignotti | ||
| 9 | Relevance Feedbacks How to review a paper | How to give a talk
by Josef Gallian 1998 Patrick Blackburn 2001 Paul Edwards 2010 | |||
| 10 | Seminar on Corpora (Maddalena) | ||||
| 11 | Seminar WSD (Nadia) CLIR |
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| 12 | Seminario MT (Tatiana) CLIR and DL |
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| 13 | simulazione esame | ||||
| 14 | Seminar on Ontology and DL (Alessandra e Chiara) | ||||
| 15 | Cutting edges topics in DL Correzione esercizi |