Information Retrieval
NUS SoC, AY 23/24, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00
Last updated: 12 Apr 2024, Materials for Week 12/13 released.
Dates below are the dates of the lecture on Friday. Get the CS3245 calendar for use in calendaring applications, or see the calendar as a web page (never miss a class again, yeah right). Links to lecture notes and tutorials will start to function around the time the respective subject is covered in class.
Syllabus
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| Week 1 (15-19 Jan) | Course Overview and Language Models |
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| Week 2 (22-26 Jan) | Boolean Retrieval |
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| Week 3 (29-2 Feb) | Postings Lists and Choosing Terms |
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| Week 4 (5-9 Feb) | Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval |
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| Week 5 (12-16 Feb) | Index Construction |
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| Week 6 (19-23 Feb) | Index Compression |
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| Recess Week (26 Feb-1 Mar) | ||||||||
| Week 7 (4-8 Mar) | Scoring and the Vector Space Model |
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| Week 8 (11-15 Mar) | A Complete Search System |
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| Week 9 (18-22 Mar) | Evaluation |
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| Week 10 (25-29 Mar) | (No lecture due to Good Friday) | |||||||
| Week 11 (1-5 Apr) | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and XML IR |
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| Week 12 (8-12 Apr) | Probabilistic IR |
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| Week 13 (15-19 Apr) | Crawling and Link Analysis |
Reading Week (22-26 Apr) |
| Exam Week 1 (29 Apr-3 May) |
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