Information Retrieval
NUS SoC, AY 24/25, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00
Last updated: 26 Mar 2025, Materials for Week 10/11 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
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| Week 1 (13-17 Jan) | Course Overview and Language Models |
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| Week 2 (20-24 Jan) | Boolean Retrieval |
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| Week 3 (27-31 Jan) | Postings Lists and Choosing Terms |
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| Week 4 (3-7 Feb) | Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval |
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| Week 5 (10-14 Feb) | Index Construction |
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| Week 6 (17-21 Feb) | Index Compression |
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| Week 7 (3-7 Mar) | Scoring and the Vector Space Model |
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| Week 8 (10-14 Mar) | A Complete Search System |
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| Week 9 (17-21 Mar) | Evaluation |
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| Week 10 (24-28 Mar) | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and XML IR |
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| Week 11 (31 Mar-4 Apr) | Probabilistic IR |
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| Week 12 (7-11 Apr) | Crawling and Link Analysis |
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| Week 13 (14-18 Apr) | (No lecture due to Good Friday) |
Reading Week (21-25 Apr) |
| Exam Week 1 (28 Apr-2 May) |
| Exam Week 2 (5-9 May) |
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