Created: Sun 08 Jan 2012
Notes:
- This is an approximate syllabus; it may change at any time.
- As this course is taught only once per week, each Tuesday class
will consist of two "lectures", as shown below.
- "CMS" refers to the course text by Croft, Metzler, and Strohan;
"MRS" refers to the course text by Manning, Raghavan, and
Schutze.
- Lecture 01, Tue 01-10-12
- Overview of IS4200; overview of Information Retrieval
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 02, Tue 01-10-12
- Evaluation in Information Retrieval
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 03, Tue 01-17-12
- Finish evaluation
- Boolean retrieval model
- Start vector space model...
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Homework 01 assigned
- Lecture 04, Tue 01-17-12
- Finish vector space model
- Start probabilistic models...
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 05, Tue 01-24-12
- Lecture 06, Tue 01-24-12
- Finish smoothing
- Finish language models
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 07, Tue 01-31-12
- BM25
- Intro to text processing and indexing
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 08, Tue 01-31-12
- Start statistics of text (Zipf's & Heap's Laws)...
- Text statistics demos
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 09, Tue 02-07-12
- Finish statistics of text
- Least-squares line fitting
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Project 01 due (Fri)
- Lecture 10, Tue 02-07-12
- Start compression...
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 11, Tue 02-14-12
- Lecture 12, Tue 02-14-12
- File organization and index contruction
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 13, Tue 02-21-12
- Metasearch: data fusion
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Lecture 14, Tue 02-21-12
- Start web retrieval
- Reading:
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- Lecture 15, Tue 02-28-12
- Lecture 16, Tue 02-28-10
- Spring Break, Tue 03-06-12
- Lecture 17, Tue 03-13-12
- Metasearch: collection fusion (distributed retrieval)
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Homework 03 assigned
- Project 02 assigned
- Lecture 18, Tue 03-13-12
- Machine Learning for IR
- Metasearch: on-line learning
- Slides:
- Lecture 19, Tue 03-20-12
- Machine Learning for IR
- Learning-to-rank: Boosting and RankBoost
- Reading:
- Homework 03 due
- Lecture 20, Tue 03-20-12
- Collaborative filtering: Recommendation Systems
- Reading:
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- Lecture 21, Tue 03-27-12
- Start clustering...
- Reading:
- Slides:
- Project 02 due
- Lecture 22, Tue 03-27-12
- Lecture 23, Tue 04-03-12
- Lecture 24, Tue 04-03-12
- News filtering
- Topic detection and tracking
- Reading:
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- Lecture 25, Tue 04-10-12
- Project discussion: Indexing
- Lecture 26, Tue 04-10-12
- Cross-language IR
- Reading:
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- Lecture 27, Tue 04-17-12
- Lecture 28, Tue 04-17-12
- Peer-to-peer networks
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