Information Retrieval
NUS SoC, 2012/2013, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Mondays 10:00-12:00
NUS SoC, 2012/2013, Semester II Video Conferencing Room (COM1 02 VCRm) / Mondays 10:00-12:00
Links will start to function around the time the respective subject is covered in class.
| Date | Content | Deadlines |
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| Week 1 (14 Jan) | Course overview and Language Models |
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| Week 2 (21 Jan) | Boolean Retrieval |
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| Week 3 (28 Jan) | Terms and Postings |
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| Week 4 (4 Feb) | Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval |
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| Week 5 (11 Feb) | No class in lieu of Chinese (Lunar) New Year -- Watch recorded lecture on Index Construction |
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| Week 6 (18 Feb) | Index Compression |
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| Recess Week | ||
| Week 7 (4 Mar) | Scoring and the Vector Space Model |
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| Week 8 (11 Mar) | A Complete Search System | |
| Week 9 (18 Mar) | IR Evaluation / XML Retrieval |
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| Week 10 (25 Mar) | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion | |
| Week 11 (1 Apr) | Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR |
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| Week 12 (8 Apr) | Crawling and Link Analysis |
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| Week 13 (15 Apr) | Practical IR on the Web and Revision | |
| Reading Week | ||
| Final Exam: 7 May (Tuesday), Afternoon. Venue: TBA | ||