Welcome to the Information Analysis and Retrieval (IAR) group in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

IAR Curriculum

We are building the curriculum for IAR. See below for a possible list of courses.

Faculty involved

• Lada Adamic Assistant Professor
• Suresh Bhavnani Assistant Professor
• Mick McQuaid Assistant Professor
• Dragomir Radev Associate Professor
• Soo Young Rieh Assistant Professor

Curriculum

These courses would be relevant to a career with Google, Yahoo!, or MSN Search.

• SI 503 Search and Retrieval
• SI 614 Networks - Theory and Applications
• SI 650 Information Retrieval
• SI 654 Database Applications Design
• SI 661 Natural Language Processing
• SI 760 Language and Information
• SI 767 Advanced Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

Related courses:

• SI 514 Semantic Web
• SI 540 Understanding networked computing
• SI 544 Statistics and Data Analysis
• SI 581 Preserving information
• SI 615 Digital libraries
• SI 649 Information visualization

Announcements

Useful links

Site Tools of the IAR Web

Notes:

• You are currently in the IAR web. The color code for this web is this background, so you know where you are.
• If you are not familiar with the TWiki collaboration platform, please visit WelcomeGuest first.

Web	TWiki Site Map	Use to...
Main	Welcome to TWiki... Users, Groups, Offices - tour this expandable virtual workspace.	...get a first-hand feel for TWiki possibilities.
TWiki	Welcome, Registration, and other StartingPoints; TWiki history & Wiki style; All the docs...	...discover TWiki details, and how to start your own site.
Clusters	SI Clusters	...collaborate on clusters
Diffusion	Information Diffusion	...collaborate on Information Diffusion
DisasterResponse	Briefing materials on decentralized approaches to disaster response	...collaborate on creating briefing materials for the NTEN conference
HealthFACTS	Preliminary version of Health FACTS system (by main.DerekHansen)	create an archive of useful information for an email-list health community
IAR	Information Analysis and Retrieval	...collaborate on IAR curriculum
ICD	This is the Incentive-Centered Design group in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.	...collaborate on
IIDF	SI Intellectual Integration and Direction Finding	...collaborate on SI Intellectual Integration and Direction Finding
Katrina	SI responds to Katrina; help aggregate information, provide info about housing and services available	help SI respond to Katrina
PhDSeminar	Information about the SI PhD Professional Seminar	collaborate on the schedule and annotate the discussions in the seminar.
RIDENOW	The RideNow? Project	...help developers and users of RideNow?
SI504	Discussions about and around readings for SI 504 Fall 2005	...discuss 504 readings and topics
Sandbox	Sandbox test area with all features enabled.	...experiment in an unrestricted hands-on web.
You can use color coding by web for identification and reference. This table is updated automatically based on WebPreferences settings of the individual webs. Contact rwash@umich.edu if you need a separate collaboration web for your team. See also AdminTools.

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