Although participation in discussion is not formally assessed, frequent failure to attend class will certainly hurt your final grade. The weight that each assignment will have in the calculation of your final grades is indicated above by a percentage. The paper, and your solutions to the exercises, should be typewritten using word-processing software. As far as time will allow, you are encouraged to seek feedback from the instructor at each stage of your completion of the paper. Such feedback not only constitutes important formative assessment, but can also lead to improvements that will be reflected in your final grade.
Assignments are due on the submission dates stated above.
For each day an assignment is late, the percentage value of that assignment will be reduced by one, but only if it is received before the final submission date of 5pm, Friday, June 11, 1999. These will remain online for one week only, before being replaced by the notes for the following class. Sparck Jones, Karen, and Peter Willett, eds. Readings in Information Retrieval . Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.