CPS 296.1 (Spring 2012):
Project in Computational Journalism

Course Information
Lecture Notes
Schedule and Readings
Sakai (Forum)

Note that many slides below are, or contain contents from, slides by the authors of the papers covered or by others. Please refer to the slides for their original sources.

See also Schedule and Readings for pointers to papers covered by the slides.

WeekDate TopicNotes
1 01-13Class cancelled
(instructor is sick)
2 01-18Introduction (Jun)PDF
01-20Two overview papers (Jun)PDF
3 01-25News and data (Rosemary and Nikhil)PDF
01-27Checking and finding facts (Jun)PDF
4 02-01Guest lecture by Sarah CohenPDF
02-03Survey of other projects (everybody) PDF (Rohit)
PDF (Nikhil)
PDF (Andrea)
PDF (Will)
PDF (Yunjia)
5 02-08Survey of other projects (everybody) PDF (Wuzhou)
PDF (David)
PDF (Mohammad)
PDF (Rozemary)
PDF (Yuqian)
02-10Guest lecture by Hye-chung KumPDF
6 02-15Collaborative query formulation (Jun)PDF
02-17Project discussion (everybody)PDF
7 02-22Project discussion (everybody)N/A
02-24Crowdsourcing (Yunjia and Mohammad)PDF
8 02-29Information extraction (Rohit and Will)PDF
03-02Information extraction (Rohit and Will)see above
9 03-07Spring recess
03-09Spring recess
10 03-14Crowdsourcing and querying (Jun)PDF
03-16Crowd analytics (Andrea and Yuqian)PDF
11 03-21Database usability (Nikhil and Rozemary)PDF
03-23Understanding database query results (Dave and Will)PDF
12 03-28Social information processing (Mohammad and Andrea)PDF
03-30Query recommendation (Wuzhou and Dave)PDF PDF
13 04-04Project update (everybody)
04-06Project update presentations (everybody)
14 04-11Natural language querying (Yunjia and Rohit)PDF PDF
04-13Survey on natural language querying (Jun)PDF
15 04-18Anomaly detection (Yuqian and Wuzhou)PDF
04-20Project discussion (everybody)
1604-25Reading period
04-27Reading period
17 05-01Final (no exam): 7-10pm
Last updated Thu Apr 19 11:36:56 EDT 2012