School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, 2017/2018, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1-02-13) / Fridays 10:00-12:00

Last updated: Thursday, January 18, 2018 - Tutorial/Homework schedule updated.

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

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (15-19 Jan)Course overview and Language Models
Week 2 (22-26 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
  • Homework #1 released
Week 3 (29 Jan-2 Feb)Postings List and Choosing Terms
Week 4 (5-9 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
  • Homework #1 due
  • Tutorial #2: Boolean Retrieval and the Term Vocabulary and Postings List
  • Homework #2 released
Week 5 (12-16 Feb)Index Construction
Week 6 (19-23 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (5-9 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 (12-16 Mar)A Complete Search System
  • Tutorial #4 (Part A): Vector Space Model and Weighting
Week 9 (19-23 Mar)Evaluation
  • Tutorial #4 (Part B): Vector Space Model and Weighting
    • (via webcast)
  • Homework #3 due
Week 10 (26-30 Mar)Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and XML IR
  • Homework #4 released: Mini IR Project: Legal Case Retrieval
Week 11 (2-6 Apr)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
Week 12 (9-13 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #5 (Part B): Evaluation and XML Retrieval
    • (via webcast)
Week 13 (16-20 Apr)Search Advertising, Duplicate Detection and Revision.
  • Tutorial #6: Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
  • Homework #4 due
Reading Week
Final Exam: Tuesday, 08-May-2018 (morning). Venue: TBA