| Week | Date | Content | Reading | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep. 15, 2020 | Course Overview | ||
| 2 | Sep. 22, 2020 |
Chap. 1, Boolean retrieval
Chap. 2, The term vocabulary and postings lists |
IIR Ch.1, MIR Ch.1, MIR 8.1-8.2, Salton 8.1-8.3
IIR Ch.2, MIR 8.2, 7.1.-7.2, Salton 8.6 | |
| 3 | Sep. 29, 2020 | Chap. 3, Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval | IIR Ch.3, MIR 4.2, Salton Ch.9 |
HW#1
Team Members Registration |
| 4 | Oct. 6, 2020 | Chap. 4, Index construction | IIR Ch.4, MIR Ch.8 | |
| 5 | Oct. 13, 2020 |
Chap. 5, Index compression
Chap. 6, Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model |
IIR 5.1, MIR 6.1-6.3
IIR Ch.6, MIR 2.5 |
Due: Team Member Registration
Due: HW#1 Sec. 5.2-5.3 will be skimmed. |
| 6 | Oct. 20, 2020 | Chap. 7, Computing scores in a complete search system | IIR Ch,7, MIR 2.5 |
Term Project Proposal
HW#2 |
| 7 | Oct. 27, 2020 | Chap. 8, Evaluation in information retreival | IIR Ch.8, MIR Ch.3 | |
| 8 | Nov. 3, 2020 |
Chap. 9, Relevance feedback and query expansion
Chap.11, Probabilistic Information Retrieval |
IIR Ch.9, MIR Ch.5
IIR Ch.11 |
Due: HW#2
Note: Ch.11 will be briefly skimmed. |
| 9 | Nov. 10, 2020 | (Midterm Exam) | ||
| 10 | Nov. 17, 2020 |
(A brief overview of BM25, and Chap.12, Language Model)
Introduction to Language Model Chap. 13, Text classification and Naive Bayes | IIR Ch.13 |
Due: Proposal
Note: Ch.12 will be briefly skimmed. Only selected topics in Ch.13 will be covered. |
| 11 | Nov. 24, 2020 | Chap. 14, Vector space classification | IIR 14.1-14.3 | Note: Only selected topics in Ch.14, will be covered. |
| 12 | Dec. 1, 2020 |
Sec. 15.1 Support vector machines
Chap. 16, Flat clustering & Chap. 17, Hierarchical clustering (Chap.18, Matrix decomposition & latent semantic indexing) | IIR Sec.15.1 IIR Ch.16-17, MIR 5.3 |
HW#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. 8, 2020 |
Introduction to Word Embeddings
Chap. 19, Web search basics | IIR Ch.19, MIR Ch.13 | |
| 14 | Dec. 15, 2020 |
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 |
Due: HW#3
Note: Only selected parts of Ch.21 will be introduced |
| 15 | Dec. 22, 2020 | Term Project Presentation (Week 1). | ||
| 16 | Dec. 29, 2020 | Term Project Presentation (Week 2). | ||
| 17 | Jan. 5, 2020 | Term Project Presentation (Week 3). | ||
| 18 | Jan. 12, 2020 | Term Project Presentation (Week 4). |
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. 17, 2020 (Tue.) |
| Topics |
For System demonstration, you are suggested to attend the competition of news stance detection in AI Cup 2019.
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. 22, 2020 (Tue.). Please check the current schedule of term project presentation. * [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. |
May 27, Jun. 3, 10, 2019 |
| 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. 15, 2021 (Fri.) |