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CS 3245 - Information Retrieval NUS SoC, 2010/2011, Semester II TR 15 (COM1 2-02) / Thursdays 14:00-16:00

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Module Description (excerpted from the bulletin): This module 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 is document retrieval: the process of indexing and retrieving text documents. However, the field of information retrieval includes almost any type of unstructured or semi-structured data, including newswire stories, transcribed speech, email, blogs, images, or video. Therefore, information retrieval is a critical aspect of Web search engines. This module also serves as the foundation for subsequent modules on the understanding, processing and retrieval of particular web media.

N.B. We will be teaching and using the Python programming language throughout this class. We will using Python 2.6.6 instead of the updated Python 3.x, as the NLTK library that we will also be using is currently incompatible with 3.x.

Course Characteristics:

• Modular credits: 4.
• Prerequisites: CS2010 Data Structures and Algorithms II or its equivalent. Exceptions to these pre-requisites can be made on a case-by-case basis only. See instructor for details.
• Instructor: Min-Yen KAN, <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg>. Office: AS6 05-12 (x1885). Office hours are held (directly before class) on Thursdays, 12:00-14:00, or 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 IVLE. Please let me know if you do not want the contents of your email posted; I will be happy to honor your requests.
  TA: LIN Ziheng, <linzihen@comp,nus.edu.sg>. Office hours: Mondays 14:30-15:30 (CL Lab, AS6 #04-13)
• Workload: (2-1-0-5-2) 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour, 5 hours for assignments, and 2 hours preparation per week.
• Textbooks:
  • Required: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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  • Recommended: Steven Bird, Ewan Klein and Edward Loper, Natural language processing with Python, O'Reilly. 2009.
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  • Recommended: Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, 1999. Second Edition
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  • Recommended: Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, 1999. First Edition
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• Tutorial Sessions:

  Note: There will only be five tutorials; each tutorial is on a subject related to a homework assignment, and the tutorials are held every other week.

  1. Thursdays 13:00-14:00 (COM1 #02-08)
  2. Thursdays 16:00-18:00 (COM1 #02-15)
  3. Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 (COM1 #02-12)
  4. Thursdays 10:00-11:00 (AS6 #05-12)
• Final Exam: Wednesday, 27 April 2010 (Morning) @ SR 2.

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