School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2013/2014, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Fridays 11:00-13:00

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:10:17 PM SGT - Finished final version -- added final exam venue.

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Syllabus

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (17 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (24 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (31 Jan)No class in lieu of Chinese (Lunar) New Year -- Watch recorded lecture on Terms and Postings
Week 4 (7 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
Week 5 (14 Feb)Index Construction
Week 6 (21 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (7 Mar)Scoring and the Vector Space Model
Week 8 (14 Mar)A Complete Search System
Week 9 (21 Mar)IR Evaluation
Week 10 (28 Mar)XML IR, Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
Week 11 (4 Apr)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
Week 12 (11 Apr)No class is lieu of Min's administrative leave -- Watch recorded lecture or attend make-up lecture on 14 Apr @ SR8 (COM1 #02-08) on Crawling and Link Analysis.
  • Homework #4 due
Week 13 (18 Apr)No class in lieu of Good Friday -- Watch recorded lecture or attend make-up lecture on 14 Apr @ SR8 (COM1 #02-08) on Practical IR on the Web and Revision.
Reading Week
Final Exam: 6 May (Tuesday), Afternoon. Venue: SoC COM1 HCI Design Studio (COM1 #02-02)