School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, AY 22/23, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00

Last updated: 31 Mar, course materials for Week 13 released.

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

DateLectureOther activities
Week 1 (9-13 Jan)Course Overview and Language Models
Week 2 (16-20 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (23-27 Jan)Postings Lists and Choosing Terms
Week 4 (30 Jan-3 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
Week 5 (6-10 Feb)Index Construction
  • Tutorial #2: Boolean Retrieval, Postings Lists and Choosing Terms
Week 6 (13-17 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (take-home)
Recess Week (20-24 Feb)
  • Midterm due
Week 7 (27 Feb-3 Mar)Scoring and the Vector Space Model
  • Tutorial #3: Tolerant Retrieval and Indexing
  • Homework #2 due
  • Homework #3: Vector Space Model and Term Weighting
Week 8 (6-10 Mar)A Complete Search System
Week 9 (13-17 Mar)Evaluation
Week 10 (20-24 Mar)Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and XML IR
  • Homework #3 due
  • Homework #4: Mini IR Project: Legal Case Retrieval
Week 11 (27-31 Mar)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
  • Tutorial #5: Evaluation, XML Retrieval and Relevance Feedback
Week 12 (3-7 Apr)(Lecture postponed to Week 13 due to Good Friday)
Week 13 (10-14 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #6: Probabilistic IR and Web Search (online video)
Reading Week (17-21 Apr)
  • Homework #4 due
  • Exam Help Session
Final Exam: 25 Apr (Tue), 9-11am.