School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2016/2017, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Fridays 10:00-12:00

Last updated: Added final exam Tuesday, April 11, 2017 01:42:26 AM SGT

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 (13 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (20 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (27 Jan)Postings List and Choosing Terms
  • Tutorial #1: N-grams
Week 4 (3 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 (10 Feb)Index Construction
Week 6 (17 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (3 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 (10 Mar)A Complete Search System
  • Tutorial #3: Tolerant Retrieval and Indexing (Continued, Optional)
Week 9 (17 Mar)Evaluation
  • Tutorial #4 (Part A): Vector Space Model and Weighting
  • Homework #3 due
Week 10 (24 Mar)XML IR, Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion and
Intelllex Guest Lecture on Legal Search
  • Tutorial #4 (Part B): Vector Space Model and Weighting
    • (via webcast)
  • Homework #4 released: Mini IR Project: Legal Case Retrieval
Week 11 (31 Mar)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
  • Tutorial #5 (Part A): Evaluation and XML Retrieval
Week 12 (7 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #5 (Part B): Evaluation and XML Retrieval
    • (via webcast)
Week 13 (14 Apr)Updated Public Holiday for normal lecture date. Rescheduled lecture to Thursday 13 Apr, 18:00-20:00 at Seminar Room 9 (COM1 02-09)
Search Advertising, Collaborative Filtering and Revision.
  • Tutorial #6 (Probabilistic IR and Web Search)
  • Homework #4 due Friday 14 Apr 11:59 pm SGT
Reading Week
Final Exam: 25 Apr (Tuesday), 9:00-11:00. Venue: Seminar Room 1 (COM1 #02-06)