School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2014/2015, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Fridays 11:00-13:00

Last Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015 11:42:21 AM SGT Updated links for Weeks 10-13.

Links to lecture notes and tutorials will start to function around the time the respective subject is covered in class.

Syllabus

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (16 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (23 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (30 Jan)Postings List and Choosing Terms
Week 4 (6 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
  • Homework #1 due
  • Homework #2 released: Boolean Retrieval
Week 5 (13 Feb)Index Compression
  • Tutorial #2: Boolean Retrieval and the Term Vocabulary and Postings List
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Week 6 (20 Feb)No class in lieu of Chinese (Lunar) New Year -- Watch recorded lecture on Index Construction
Recess Week
Week 7 (6 Mar)Scoring and the Vector Space Model
  • Tutorial #3: Tolerant Retrieval and Indexing
  • Homework #2 due
  • Homework #3 released: Vector Space Model and Term Weighting
Week 8 (13 Mar)NUS E-Learning Week -- Watch recorded lecture on A Complete Search System
Week 9 (20 Mar)IR Evaluation
  • Tutorial #4 (Part A): Vector Space Model and Weighting
  • Homework #3 due
  • Homework #4 released: Mini IR Project: Patent Retrieval
Week 10 (27 Mar)XML IR, Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
  • Tutorial #4 (Part B): Vector Space Model and Weighting
    • (via webcast)
Week 11 (3 Apr)No class in lieu of Good Friday -- Watch recorded lecture on Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
  • Tutorial #5 (Part A): IR Evaluation and XML Retrieval
Week 12 (10 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #5 (Part B): IR Evaluation and XML Retrieval
    • (via webcast)
  • Homework #4 due
Week 13 (17 Apr)Search Advertising, Duplicate Detection and Revision.
Reading Week
Final Exam: 5 May (Tuesday), Afternoon. Venue: SoC COM1 HCI Design Studio (COM1 #02-02)