581257-8 Information retrieval methods - Exercises 10/2001 (25.4.)

Tasks marked with (**) will be counted as double tasks - and (***) as triple.
These are last homeworks for this course. Exercise sessions on May 2nd and May 9th will be used for presentations of practical works. (On Wednesday, April 18th, we have neither lecture nor exercise session.)

1. (***) Ref. [1] presents an ongoing project where search methods for architects are studied. Ref. [2] presents a query preview technique which is one constituent in the work [1]. Explain the main principles of a) the project of Ame Elliott and b) the query preview technique.

2. (***) Explain the main principles of geographic information retrieval and spatial browsing based on ref. [3].

3. Fill in the form of student feedback concerning this course (before about May 15).

References (links): 1. A project page of Ame Elliott

2. Plaisant et al., ... query preview ...

3. Larson: Geographic information retrieval and spatial browsing . (there is PART2 too!)



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