| Week | Date | Content | Reading | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep. 9, 2026 |
Course Overview
Chap. 1, Boolean retrieval | IIR Ch.1, MIR Ch.1, MIR 8.1-8.2, Salton 8.1-8.3 | |
| 2 | Sep. 16, 2026 | (Leave for Czech project) | ||
| 3 | Sep. 23, 2026 | (Leave for Czech project) | ||
| 4 | Sep. 30, 2026 |
Chap. 2, The term vocabulary and postings lists
Chap. 3, Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval |
IIR Ch.2, MIR 8.2, 7.1.-7.2, Salton 8.6
IIR Ch.3, MIR 4.2, Salton Ch.9 | |
| 5 | Oct. 7, 2026 | Chap. 4, Index construction | IIR Ch.4, MIR Ch.8 |
HW#1
Team Members Registration |
| 6 | Oct. 14, 2026 |
Chap. 5, Index compression (selected)
Chap. 6, Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model |
IIR 5.1, MIR 6.1-6.3
IIR Ch.6, MIR 2.5 |
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| 7 | Oct. 21, 2026 | Chap. 7, Computing scores in a complete search system | IIR Ch,7, MIR 2.5 |
Due: Team Member Registration
Due: HW#1 Term Project Proposal HW#2 |
| 8 | Oct. 28, 2026 |
Chap. 8, Evaluation in information retreival
Chap. 9, Relevance feedback and query expansion |
IIR Ch.8, MIR Ch.3
IIR Ch.9, MIR Ch.5 IIR Ch.11 | |
| 9 | Nov. 4, 2026 |
Chap.11, Probabilistic Information Retrieval
Chap.12, Language Model Introduction to Language Model |
Due: HW#2
Note: Ch.11 & 12 will be briefly skimmed. | |
| 10 | Nov. 11, 2026 | (Midterm Exam) | ||
| 11 | Nov. 18, 2026 |
(Chap.18, Matrix decomposition & latent semantic indexing)
Introduction to Word Embeddings (Chap. 13, Text classification and Naive Bayes Chap. 14, Vector space classification ) |
IIR Ch.13
IIR 14.1-14.3 |
Due: Proposal
Note: Only selected topics in Ch.13 will be covered. Only selected topics in Ch.14, will be covered. |
| 12 | Nov. 25, 2026 |
Introduction to LLM
Introduction to RAG ( Sec. 15.1 Support vector machines Chap. 16, Flat clustering & Chap. 17, Hierarchical clustering ) | IIR Sec.15.1 IIR Ch.16-17, MIR 5.3 |
Note: Only selected topics in Sec.15-1, Ch.16 & Ch. 17 will be covered.
Note: Ch. 18 will be briefly skimmed. |
| 13 | Dec. 2, 2026 |
Chap. 19, Web search basics | IIR Ch.19, MIR Ch.13 | HW#3 |
| 14 | Dec. 9, 2026 |
Chap. 20, Web crawling and indexes
Chap. 21, Link analysis Advanced Topics: Social computing, Big data analytics (Some applications of IR: CLIR, Multimedia IR, and Semantic Search) |
IIR Ch.20, MIR Ch.13
IIR Ch.21, MIR 2.7 | Note: Only selected parts of Ch.21 will be introduced |
| 15 | Dec. 16, 2026 |
Term Project Presentation: Week 1. | Due: HW#3 | |
| 16 | Dec. 23, 2026 | Term Project Presentation: Week 2. | ||
| 17 | Dec. 30, 2026 | (Flexible Learning) Term Project Presentation: Week 3 (online). | ||
| 18 | Jan. 6, 2027 | (Flexible Learning) Term Project Presentation: Week 4 (online). |
If you cannot successfully submit your work, please contact with the TA or the instructor.
| Item | Description | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Proposal | You are required to submit the Term Project Proposal one week after midterm exam. | Nov. 16, 2022 (Wed.) |
| Topics |
For System demonstration, you are also welcome to join the competition such as AI Cup 2026.
For paper presentations, the paper quality will *greatly* affect your score in term project. Please *carefully* select good papers to read. |
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| Schedule |
Due to our time limits, we might have to start the term project presentation as early as Dec. 16, 2026 (Wed.). * [NOTE] All presentations *must* be finished within the scheduled time slots, which will be the last *four* weeks in this semester. No other time slots will be avbailable. |
Dec. 16, 23, 30, 2026, Jan. 2, 2027 |
| Report | Each team is *required* to upload the final report after finishing your presentation.
The final report should contain at least the following:
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Jan. 8, 2027 (Fri.) |