Monday, April 03, 2006
Model Question Paper of UGC-NET
Click here to get a model question paper for UGC-NET 2006. It may not be an official document. However, it might give you some idea about the question paper pattern. The syllabus given there may be useful to you.
Improve your writing style
CMS has recently published answers for some of the questions that you and I might face. Click here to get the answers for them.
Saturday, April 01, 2006
MS-Excel Assignment
MS-Excel Assignment is ready. Each one of you get different assinments. So, please send me an email requesting to send the files required for doing the assignments. The subject line of your email should contain the text "Excel Assignment Request - " followed by your name. In the message of the email mention the assignment numbers shown in front of your name. Ex. S1 and A3.
A general introduction about the assignment will be given to you in the class.
Send email to ns.harinarayana@gmail.com
Last date for submission of assignment April 15. Last date for requesting for the mail is April 10.
Asha P T : S1 and A1
Ashoka R : S2 and A2
Ashwini N : S3 and A3
Ashwini P : S4 and A4
Bharathraj R : S1 and A2
Chidananda M : S2 and A3
Chitra M S : S3 and A4
Divakar H S : S4 and A1
Harish H T : S1 and A3
Krishna Kumar S : S2 and A4
Madegowda : S3 and A1
Manjunath S R : S4 and A2
Manohar N : S1 and A4
Mary Kutty : S2 and A1
Munassar Ali : S3 and A2
Nagashayana M N : S4 and A3
Naveena M A : S1 and A1
Naveen Kumar G : S2 and A2
Pradeep S : S3 and A3
Raghavendra G : S4 and A4
Ragndra Prasad : S1 and A2
Rajeswari : S2 and A3
Ramamani B : S3 and A4
Ravikumar K : S4 and A1
Shivaprakash Y : S1 and A3
Siddalingaswamy : S2 and A4
Smitha P : S3 and A1
Syed Mudassir : S4 and A2
A general introduction about the assignment will be given to you in the class.
Send email to ns.harinarayana@gmail.com
Last date for submission of assignment April 15. Last date for requesting for the mail is April 10.
Asha P T : S1 and A1
Ashoka R : S2 and A2
Ashwini N : S3 and A3
Ashwini P : S4 and A4
Bharathraj R : S1 and A2
Chidananda M : S2 and A3
Chitra M S : S3 and A4
Divakar H S : S4 and A1
Harish H T : S1 and A3
Krishna Kumar S : S2 and A4
Madegowda : S3 and A1
Manjunath S R : S4 and A2
Manohar N : S1 and A4
Mary Kutty : S2 and A1
Munassar Ali : S3 and A2
Nagashayana M N : S4 and A3
Naveena M A : S1 and A1
Naveen Kumar G : S2 and A2
Pradeep S : S3 and A3
Raghavendra G : S4 and A4
Ragndra Prasad : S1 and A2
Rajeswari : S2 and A3
Ramamani B : S3 and A4
Ravikumar K : S4 and A1
Shivaprakash Y : S1 and A3
Siddalingaswamy : S2 and A4
Smitha P : S3 and A1
Syed Mudassir : S4 and A2
Friday, March 31, 2006
Seminar Topics for IRS (2006)
Atlast I am able to pen down the Seminar topics for you!
Syed Mudassir: Information Systems and its types
Smitha P: Distinction between IRS and DBMS
Siddalingaswamy B: Components of IRS
Shivaprakash Y: Purpose and functions of IRS
Ravikumar K: Functional models of IRS
Ramamani B: Overview of historical development in indexing
Rajeswari: Pre-coordinate indexing Vs. Post-coordinate indexing
Ragndra Prasad H: Chain Procedure
Raghavendra G: PRECIS
Pradeep S: POPSI
Naveena M A: KeyWord Indexing
Naveen Kumar G: UNITERM Indexing
Nagashayana M N: Citation Indexing - Concept
Munassar Ali Ahmed: Science Citation Index
Mary Kutty Sabastian: Significance of Controlled Vocabulary
Manohar N: Z39.19
Manjunath S R: Construction of thesaurus
Madegowda: Thesaurofacet and Classurus
Krishna Kumar S: MeSH
Harish H T: Sears List of Subject Headings
Divakar H S: Boolean Models (Set theoretic models)
Chitra M S: Vector Models (Algebraic Models)
Chidananda M: Probablistic Models
Bharathraj R: Search Strategy
Ashwini P: Crafield Test
Ashwini N: MEDLARS test
Ashoka R: TREC project
Asha P T: Parameters for evaluation
Instructions : Every student has to present (not read) seminar for 10 minutes.
Discuss the seminar topic with the teacher well in advnace.
Prepare a seminar paper/presentation slides.
Post your seminar paper in your blog (Do it only after its approval).
Seminar stars from 10th April.
Order of presentation is same as shown above.
Syed Mudassir: Information Systems and its types
Smitha P: Distinction between IRS and DBMS
Siddalingaswamy B: Components of IRS
Shivaprakash Y: Purpose and functions of IRS
Ravikumar K: Functional models of IRS
Ramamani B: Overview of historical development in indexing
Rajeswari: Pre-coordinate indexing Vs. Post-coordinate indexing
Ragndra Prasad H: Chain Procedure
Raghavendra G: PRECIS
Pradeep S: POPSI
Naveena M A: KeyWord Indexing
Naveen Kumar G: UNITERM Indexing
Nagashayana M N: Citation Indexing - Concept
Munassar Ali Ahmed: Science Citation Index
Mary Kutty Sabastian: Significance of Controlled Vocabulary
Manohar N: Z39.19
Manjunath S R: Construction of thesaurus
Madegowda: Thesaurofacet and Classurus
Krishna Kumar S: MeSH
Harish H T: Sears List of Subject Headings
Divakar H S: Boolean Models (Set theoretic models)
Chitra M S: Vector Models (Algebraic Models)
Chidananda M: Probablistic Models
Bharathraj R: Search Strategy
Ashwini P: Crafield Test
Ashwini N: MEDLARS test
Ashoka R: TREC project
Asha P T: Parameters for evaluation
Instructions : Every student has to present (not read) seminar for 10 minutes.
Discuss the seminar topic with the teacher well in advnace.
Prepare a seminar paper/presentation slides.
Post your seminar paper in your blog (Do it only after its approval).
Seminar stars from 10th April.
Order of presentation is same as shown above.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
MS Word assignment
Microsoft Word Assignment.
Last date: April 15, 2006
Assignement 1
Create a table with 10 classmates. One column for names, one column for their favorite activity (keep it clean please), and one column for the number of hours per week they spend doing that activity. Add an appropriate title to the table and include logical column headings. Choose a Table Autoformat and center the table. Left align columns of text and right align columns of numbers. Change the page orientation to Landscape. Include a footer with your name, the date and time. Check your print preview and then print this document. Staple it to your record.
Assignment 2
Use WordArt to type your name. Below your name, insert a ClipArt image with a Callout. Type me a message in the Callout telling me what you thought about this assignment. Remember, you can’t get in trouble because it’s not you saying it, it’s the ClipArt (If you believe that, go buy a clue!). Print this page and staple it to your record. Turn them in together.
Disclaimer: This assignment is not created by me. I have taken it from some other source on the net. Find out that source and let me know the URL.
Last date: April 15, 2006
Assignement 1
Create a table with 10 classmates. One column for names, one column for their favorite activity (keep it clean please), and one column for the number of hours per week they spend doing that activity. Add an appropriate title to the table and include logical column headings. Choose a Table Autoformat and center the table. Left align columns of text and right align columns of numbers. Change the page orientation to Landscape. Include a footer with your name, the date and time. Check your print preview and then print this document. Staple it to your record.
Assignment 2
Use WordArt to type your name. Below your name, insert a ClipArt image with a Callout. Type me a message in the Callout telling me what you thought about this assignment. Remember, you can’t get in trouble because it’s not you saying it, it’s the ClipArt (If you believe that, go buy a clue!). Print this page and staple it to your record. Turn them in together.
Disclaimer: This assignment is not created by me. I have taken it from some other source on the net. Find out that source and let me know the URL.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Tips on Microsoft Word
Students, please visit the below mentioned sites for learning about creation of TOCs and Index in Microsoft Word
Table of Contents - Basics
Table of contents - Advanced
Index
Happy learning!
Table of Contents - Basics
Table of contents - Advanced
Index
Happy learning!
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Improve your English
Students, The Chicago Manual of Style Web site has just been updated with answers to
the some of the new questions about Engish usage. Visit here to read them.
the some of the new questions about Engish usage. Visit here to read them.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Internet and Libraries
Students, please go through this article which give reasons for why Internet can not replace/substitute libraries. In some assingments submitted to me, I saw that students are not very clear about the role of libraries in the Intenet era. Hence this positing.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Poster Presentation Guidelines
The following are the guidelines for post presentation competition:
Maximum Number of posters: Two
Dimensions: 72-in wide X 48-in high.
Visibility: Prepare all diagrams and charts neatly and legibly in a size sufficient to be read at a distance of 2-meters.
Paragraph and Figure Caption Text: For printed text: AT LEAST 24-POINT FONT A serif font (e.g. Times or Times Roman) is often easier for reading main body text. For handwritten text: 0.9 cm height for each letter.
Headers: For printed text: AT LEAST 36-POINT FONT. A non-serif font (e.g. Arial or Helvetica) is good for use in headers and figure labels. For handwritten text: 1.2-cm height.
Colors: Use different colors, in combination with different font sizes and styles as well as different textures, to direct and focus attention.
Title: Place prominently at the top of the poster board to allow viewers to identify your paper easily.
Authors: Highlight authors' names, e-mail, and address information in the event the viewer is interested in contacting the author[s] for additional information.
Organization: Organize the paper on the poster so that it is clear, orderly, and self-explanatory. Label different elements [I, II, III...; or 1, 2, 3...; or A, B, C,...] in order to make it easier for the viewer to follow you work. PLEASE, don't clutter your poster with too much text! Look critically at the layout. If there is about 20% text, 40% graphics and 40% empty space, you are doing well.
Competition Date: 17th February 2006
Maximum Number of posters: Two
Dimensions: 72-in wide X 48-in high.
Visibility: Prepare all diagrams and charts neatly and legibly in a size sufficient to be read at a distance of 2-meters.
Paragraph and Figure Caption Text: For printed text: AT LEAST 24-POINT FONT A serif font (e.g. Times or Times Roman) is often easier for reading main body text. For handwritten text: 0.9 cm height for each letter.
Headers: For printed text: AT LEAST 36-POINT FONT. A non-serif font (e.g. Arial or Helvetica) is good for use in headers and figure labels. For handwritten text: 1.2-cm height.
Colors: Use different colors, in combination with different font sizes and styles as well as different textures, to direct and focus attention.
Title: Place prominently at the top of the poster board to allow viewers to identify your paper easily.
Authors: Highlight authors' names, e-mail, and address information in the event the viewer is interested in contacting the author[s] for additional information.
Organization: Organize the paper on the poster so that it is clear, orderly, and self-explanatory. Label different elements [I, II, III...; or 1, 2, 3...; or A, B, C,...] in order to make it easier for the viewer to follow you work. PLEASE, don't clutter your poster with too much text! Look critically at the layout. If there is about 20% text, 40% graphics and 40% empty space, you are doing well.
Competition Date: 17th February 2006
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Structured blogging
Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that's more usable. You can enter information in this form and it'll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it.
For more details visit this site.
For more details visit this site.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
How to write CVs
Here is an interesting article. I wish that all students, particularly those who are in final semester to go through this.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Information Retrieval - Course outline
M.L.I.Sc. 2.3 - Information Retrieval Systems
Unit 1 Information Systems: Types of Information systems – IRS, DBMS, MIS, DSS, QAS, Expert Systems. IRS - Purpose, Functions and Components. Features of IRS. Functional model of an IRS.
Unit 2 Indexing Systems: Indexing - Meaning, Purpose and Need. An overview of historical development in indexing. Pre-coordinate Indexing Vs. Post-coordinate indexing. Pre-coordinate Indexing Systems – brief outline of Chain procedure, POPSI, PRECIS and Keyword Indexing. Post-coordinate Indexing Systems – Uniterm Indexing. Citation Indexing – Meaning and importance, Different citation indexes: Shepard’s Citations, SCI, SSCI. Automatic Indexing – Techniques and Methods. Uncontrolled Vocabularies.
Unit 3 Vocabulary Control: Vocabulary control – Meaning and importance; Controlled Vs. Free text indexing; Vocabulary Control Tools – Subject heading Lists, Thesauri, Thesaurofacet, Classarus. Thesaurai - its purpose, structure and format, Thesaurus construction techniques.
Case Study of Control Vocabularies/Ontologies such BIOSIS, ERIC, LISA, MeSH.
Unit 4 Information Search Strategy and Retrieval Models: Types of queries. Search Strategy: its pre-requisites, pre-search interview, the nature of search strategy, types of search strategy. Types of searches. Query formulation and searching process - Boolean operators and Boolean query formulation, Venn diagrams, Truncation, Wild Card Operators, Nested searching, Proximity searching, Range searching, Best match searching. IR Models: Structural models – Swets model, Probabilistic retrieval model, the vector processing model, cognitive user model
Unit 5 Evaluation of IRS: Purpose; Evaluation criteria; Design of evaluation programmes; Steps of evaluation; Evaluation experiments: Overview of the Cranfield test, MEDLARS, the SMART Retrieval Experiment, The STAIRS project, TREC.
Unit 1 Information Systems: Types of Information systems – IRS, DBMS, MIS, DSS, QAS, Expert Systems. IRS - Purpose, Functions and Components. Features of IRS. Functional model of an IRS.
Unit 2 Indexing Systems: Indexing - Meaning, Purpose and Need. An overview of historical development in indexing. Pre-coordinate Indexing Vs. Post-coordinate indexing. Pre-coordinate Indexing Systems – brief outline of Chain procedure, POPSI, PRECIS and Keyword Indexing. Post-coordinate Indexing Systems – Uniterm Indexing. Citation Indexing – Meaning and importance, Different citation indexes: Shepard’s Citations, SCI, SSCI. Automatic Indexing – Techniques and Methods. Uncontrolled Vocabularies.
Unit 3 Vocabulary Control: Vocabulary control – Meaning and importance; Controlled Vs. Free text indexing; Vocabulary Control Tools – Subject heading Lists, Thesauri, Thesaurofacet, Classarus. Thesaurai - its purpose, structure and format, Thesaurus construction techniques.
Case Study of Control Vocabularies/Ontologies such BIOSIS, ERIC, LISA, MeSH.
Unit 4 Information Search Strategy and Retrieval Models: Types of queries. Search Strategy: its pre-requisites, pre-search interview, the nature of search strategy, types of search strategy. Types of searches. Query formulation and searching process - Boolean operators and Boolean query formulation, Venn diagrams, Truncation, Wild Card Operators, Nested searching, Proximity searching, Range searching, Best match searching. IR Models: Structural models – Swets model, Probabilistic retrieval model, the vector processing model, cognitive user model
Unit 5 Evaluation of IRS: Purpose; Evaluation criteria; Design of evaluation programmes; Steps of evaluation; Evaluation experiments: Overview of the Cranfield test, MEDLARS, the SMART Retrieval Experiment, The STAIRS project, TREC.
Information Retrieval - References
This is for the information of the MLISc (Second Semester) that I will be teaching "Information Retrieval Systems" for this semester. I have already posted some of the related sites on the subject in my delicious account. Please check it under the tag "Informationretrieval". Make it a regular habit to check my delicious postings for further updates.
Reference Books
* Ackermann, Ernest C. and Karen Hartman. 1999. The Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Wilsonville, OR : Franklin, Beedle & Associates.
* Allan, James (ed.). 2002. Topic Detection and Tracking. Event-based Information Organization. INRE 12. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
* Baeza-Yates, Ricardo and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. 1999. Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley.
* Belew, Richard K. 2000. Finding Out About. A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW. Cambridge University Press. [Includes a CD-ROM version of C. J. van Rijsbergen. 1979. Information Retrieval.]
* Bertino, Elisa, Barbara Catania and Gian Piero Zarri. 2001. Intelligent Database Systems. Addison-Wesley.
* Chakrabarti, Soumen. 2003. Mining the Web. Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Croft, W. Bruce and John Lafferty. 2003. Language Modeling for Information Retrieval. INRE 13. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
* Frakes, William B. and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. 1992. Information Retrieval. Data Structures & Algorithms. Prentice Hall.
* Feldman, Susan. 1997. "Just the Answers, Please: Choosing a Web Search Service." Searcher 5:5: 44.
* Spärck Jones, Karen and Peter Willett (eds.) 1997. Readings in Information Retrieval. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Witten, Ian H. and David Bainbridge. 2003. How to Build a Digital Libary. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Witten, Ian H., Alastair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. 1999. Managing Gigabytes. Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufmann.
Reference Books
* Ackermann, Ernest C. and Karen Hartman. 1999. The Information Specialist's Guide to Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Wilsonville, OR : Franklin, Beedle & Associates.
* Allan, James (ed.). 2002. Topic Detection and Tracking. Event-based Information Organization. INRE 12. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
* Baeza-Yates, Ricardo and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. 1999. Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley.
* Belew, Richard K. 2000. Finding Out About. A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW. Cambridge University Press. [Includes a CD-ROM version of C. J. van Rijsbergen. 1979. Information Retrieval.]
* Bertino, Elisa, Barbara Catania and Gian Piero Zarri. 2001. Intelligent Database Systems. Addison-Wesley.
* Chakrabarti, Soumen. 2003. Mining the Web. Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Croft, W. Bruce and John Lafferty. 2003. Language Modeling for Information Retrieval. INRE 13. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
* Frakes, William B. and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. 1992. Information Retrieval. Data Structures & Algorithms. Prentice Hall.
* Feldman, Susan. 1997. "Just the Answers, Please: Choosing a Web Search Service." Searcher 5:5: 44.
* Spärck Jones, Karen and Peter Willett (eds.) 1997. Readings in Information Retrieval. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Witten, Ian H. and David Bainbridge. 2003. How to Build a Digital Libary. Morgan Kaufmann.
* Witten, Ian H., Alastair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. 1999. Managing Gigabytes. Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. 2nd ed. Morgan Kaufmann.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
English Improvement
Those of you intereseted in improving your English, visit this site. Mahadevaswamy: You can find answer for one of your question posed to me earlier.
Some of the questions answered are:
Q. When spelling out a proper name that is also known by an acronym, is it
acceptable to capitalize more than one letter in a word that contributes
multiple letters to the acronym?
Q. Should it be “The Importance of Well-Written Reports” or “The Importance
of Well-written Reports”?
Q. Would it be a gender-biased usage if you used “man-made element?” What could be the neutral substitute?
Q. Iguaçú (or Iguazú) Falls has two possible correct spellings. How would CMS handle this one?
Q. Do you perceive any difference in meaning in the following two sentences?
Q. When does one use hyphenation to break words?
Q. I work for a travel company and we are trying to figure out the proper way to write “eight-night stay.”
Q. I am doing a research paper for my history class in college and I am supposed to put in the Chicago form of bibliography and citations. Can you help on this?
Q. If I have a sentence that includes a parenthesis (say I’m talking about a 401[k] plan), do I really have to change the (k) to brackets?
Q. I regularly come across sentences in which “only” strikes me as being misplaced. Am I correct? Or only nuts?
Q. At the annual meeting of our local PBK chapter, dispute on the pronunciation of “archival” arose: whether the stress falls on the first or the second syllable.
Some of the questions answered are:
Q. When spelling out a proper name that is also known by an acronym, is it
acceptable to capitalize more than one letter in a word that contributes
multiple letters to the acronym?
Q. Should it be “The Importance of Well-Written Reports” or “The Importance
of Well-written Reports”?
Q. Would it be a gender-biased usage if you used “man-made element?” What could be the neutral substitute?
Q. Iguaçú (or Iguazú) Falls has two possible correct spellings. How would CMS handle this one?
Q. Do you perceive any difference in meaning in the following two sentences?
Q. When does one use hyphenation to break words?
Q. I work for a travel company and we are trying to figure out the proper way to write “eight-night stay.”
Q. I am doing a research paper for my history class in college and I am supposed to put in the Chicago form of bibliography and citations. Can you help on this?
Q. If I have a sentence that includes a parenthesis (say I’m talking about a 401[k] plan), do I really have to change the (k) to brackets?
Q. I regularly come across sentences in which “only” strikes me as being misplaced. Am I correct? Or only nuts?
Q. At the annual meeting of our local PBK chapter, dispute on the pronunciation of “archival” arose: whether the stress falls on the first or the second syllable.
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