Information Retrieval
NUS SoC, AY 24/25, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00
Course Description, Aims and Objectives:
Course Description, Aims and Objectives: This course discusses the basic concepts and methods of information retrieval including capturing, representing, storing, organizing, and retrieving unstructured or loosely structured information. The most well-known aspect of information retrieval (and hence the focus of this course) is document retrieval: the process of indexing and retrieving text documents (e.g., news articles and web pages). This course also serves as the foundation for subsequent courses on the understanding, processing and retrieval of particular web media.
N.B. We will be using the Python 3 and the NLTK library throughout this class.
Course Characteristics:
- Academic units: 4.
- Prerequisites: CS2040/CS2040S/CS2040C. Important: It is highly suggested to have some advanced mathematics background such as probability and statistics, and/or linear algebra. Exceptions to these pre-requisites can be made on a case-by-case basis only. See instructor for details.
- Staff:
- Instructor: ZHAO Jin, <zhaojin@comp.nus.edu.sg> Office: COM2-02-10 (66011083).
- Teaching Assistant: TBA
- Office hours are by appointment. Emails to me as a default are assumed to be public, and my replies and your anonymized email will likely be posted to the forum. Please let me know if you do not want the contents of your email posted; I will be happy to honor your requests.
- Workload: (2-1-0-5-2)
- 2 lecture hours per week
- 1 tutorial hour per week
- 5 hours for projects, assignments, fieldwork, etc. per week
- 2 hours for preparatory work by a student per week
- Textbooks:
- Required: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and
Hinrich Schütze, Introduction
to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
[ Check LINC for book ] - Recommended: Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper, Natural Language Processing with
Python, O'Reilly. 2009.
[ Check LINC for book ] - Recommended: Stefan Buttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press. 2016.
[ Check LINC for book ]
- Required: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and
Hinrich Schütze, Introduction
to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
- Lectures: The lectures are conducted on Fridays at 12:00-14:00 at COM1 Video Conference Room (COM1-02-13) (Map).
- Tutorials: The (optional) tutorials are conducted in odd weeks in general (but might be postponed to the subsequent week due to public holidays). Participation marks will be awarded to the students who present their answers for discussion during the tutorials. There will be 4 tutorial groups as listed below and the venue of the tutorials is SR 9 @ COM1-02-09 (Map).
- Tutorial Group 2: Thursday 11:00-12:00
- Tutorial Group 3: Thursday 12:00-13:00
- Tutorial Group 4: Friday 10:00-11:00
- Tutorial Group 5: Friday 11:00-12:00
- Forum: The course forum is hosted on Ed and will be open in Week 1. Participation marks will be awarded to students who take part in discussions.
- Final Exam: The exam is scheduled on 6 May (Tue), 9-11am. Venue: TBA.