School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2015/2016, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Fridays 11:00-13:00

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 10:43:26 PM SGT - Updated final exam venue.

Dates below are the dates of the lecture on Friday. Get the CS 3245 calendar as an link 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

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (15 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (22 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (29 Jan)Postings List and Choosing Terms
Week 4 (5 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
  • Homework #1 due
  • Tutorial #2: Boolean Retrieval and the Term Vocabulary and Postings List
  • Homework #2 released: Boolean Retrieval
Week 5 (12 Feb)Index Construction
Week 6 (19 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (4 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 (11 Mar)A Complete Search System
Week 9 (18 Mar)Evaluation
  • Tutorial #4 (Part A): Vector Space Model and Weighting
  • Homework #3 due
  • Homework #4 released: Mini IR Project: Patent Retrieval
Week 10 (25 Mar)No class in lieu of Good Friday -- Watch recorded lecture on XML IR, Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
  • Tutorial #4 (Part B): Vector Space Model and Weighting
    • (via webcast)
Week 11 (1 Apr)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
Week 12 (8 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #5 (Part B): Evaluation and XML Retrieval
    • (via webcast)
  • updatedHomework #4 due
Week 13 (15 Apr)Search Advertising, Duplicate Detection and Revision.
  • updated Homework #4 due
Reading Week
Final Exam: 3 May (Tuesday), 13:00-15:00. Venue: SR1 (COM1 #02-12)