School of Computing

Information Retrieval

NUS SoC, AY 2018/19, Semester II, Fridays 12:00-14:00 @ LT15

Last updated: Thursday, 18 April, 2019 - Weeks 12/13 materials updated.

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

DateContentDeadlines
Week 1 (14-18 Jan)Course Overview and Language Models
Week 2 (21-25 Jan)Boolean Retrieval
Week 3 (28 Jan-1 Feb)Postings Lists and Choosing Terms
Week 4 (4-8 Feb)Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval
  • Homework #1 due
  • Homework #2 released: Boolean Retrieval
Week 5 (11-15 Feb)Index Construction
  • Tutorial #2: Boolean Retrieval, Postings Lists and Choosing Terms
Week 6 (18-22 Feb)Index Compression
  • Midterm (20% of final grade)
Recess Week
Week 7 (4-8 Mar)Scoring and the Vector Space Model
  • Tutorial #3: Tolerant Retrieval and Indexing
  • Homework #2 due
  • Homework #3 released: Vector Space Model and Term Weighting
Week 8 (11-15 Mar)A Complete Search System
Week 9 (18-22 Mar)Evaluation
  • Tutorial #4 (Part B): Vector Space Model and Weighting
    • (via webcast)
  • Homework #3 due
  • Homework #4 released: Mini IR Project: Legal Case Retrieval
Week 10 (25-29 Mar)Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion, and XML IR
Week 11 (1-5 Apr)Probabilistic IR and Language Model IR
Week 12 (8-12 Apr)Crawling and Link Analysis
  • Tutorial #5 (Part B): Evaluation and XML Retrieval
    • (via webcast)
Week 13 (15-19 Apr)Search Advertising, Duplicate Detection and Revision.
  • Homework #4 due
  • Tutorial #6: Probabilistic IR and Web Search
Reading Week
Final Exam: Saturday, 27-Apr-2019 (afternoon). Venue: TBA