School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2012/2013, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Mondays 10:00-12:00

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 05:52:43 PM SGT - Updated w12 through w13. Should be the last update.

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Syllabus

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (14 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (21 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (28 Jan)Terms and Postings
Week 4 (4 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
Week 5 (11 Feb)No class in lieu of Chinese (Lunar) New Year -- Watch recorded lecture on Index Construction
Week 6 (18 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (4 Mar)Scoring and the Vector Space Model
Week 8 (11 Mar)A Complete Search System
Week 9 (18 Mar)IR Evaluation / XML Retrieval
Week 10 (25 Mar)Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
Week 11 (1 Apr)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
Week 12 (8 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Homework #4 due
Week 13 (15 Apr)Practical IR on the Web and Revision
Reading Week
Final Exam: 7 May (Tuesday), Afternoon. Venue: TBA