Information Retrieval
NUS SoC, AY 25/26, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00
Last updated: 6 Jan, draft materials for Week 1 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 (12 Jan) | Course Overview and Language Models |
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| Week 2 (19 Jan) | Boolean Retrieval |
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| Week 3 (26 Jan) | Postings Lists and Choosing Terms |
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| Week 4 (2 Feb) | Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval |
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| Week 5 (9 Feb) | Index Construction |
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| Week 6 (16 Feb) | Index Compression |
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| Recess Week (23 Feb) | |||||||||||
| Week 7 (2 Mar) | Scoring and the Vector Space Model |
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| Week 8 (9 Mar) | A Complete Search System |
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| Week 9 (16 Mar) | Evaluation |
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| Week 10 (23 Mar) | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and Probabilistic IR |
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| Week 11 (30 Mar) | No Lecture due to Good Friday | ||||||||||
| Week 12 (6 Apr) | Crawling and Link Analysis |
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| Week 13 (13 Apr) | Guest Lecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Wrap-Up |
Reading Week (20 Apr) |
| Exam Week 1 (28 Apr) |
| Exam Week 2 (4 May) |
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