| Week | Date | Content | Reading | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feb. 20, 2013 | Course Overview | ||
| 2 | Feb. 27, 2013 | Chap. 1, Boolean retrieval | IIR Ch.1, MIR Ch.1, MIR 8.1-8.2, Salton 8.1-8.3 | |
| 3 | Mar. 6, 2013 |
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 | |
| 4 | Mar. 13, 2013 | Chap. 4, Index construction | IIR Ch.4, MIR Ch.8 | HW#1 |
| 5 | Mar. 20, 2013 | Sec. 5.1 Statistical properties of terms in information retrieval | IIR 5.1, MIR 6.1-6.3 | Team Registration |
| 6 | Mar. 27, 2013 |
Chap. 6, Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model
Chap. 7, Computing scores in a complete search system |
IIR Ch.6, MIR 2.5
IIR Ch,7, MIR 2.5 |
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| 7 | Apr. 3, 2013 | (Compensation Leave for Sports Day) | Due: HW#1 | |
| 8 | Apr. 10, 2013 | Chap. 8, Evaluation in information retreival | IIR Ch.8, MIR Ch.3 | HW#2
term project proposal |
| 9 | Apr. 17, 2013 | Chap. 9, Relevance feedback and query expansion | IIR Ch.9, MIR Ch.5 | |
| 10 | Apr. 24, 2013 | (Midterm Exam) | Due: HW#2
Due: Proposal | |
| 11 | May 1, 2013 | Chap. 13, Text classification and Naive Bayes | IIR Ch.13 |
Note: Only selected topics in Ch. 13 will be covered. |
| 12 | May 8, 2013 |
Chap. 14, Vector space classification
Sec. 15.1 Support vector machines Chap. 16, Flat clustering & Chap. 17, Hierarchical clustering |
IIR 14.1-14.3
IIR Sec.15.1 IIR Ch.16-17, MIR 5.3 |
HW#3
Note: Only selected topics in Ch.14, 15-1, 16, & 17 will be covered. |
| 13 | May 15, 2013 |
Chap. 19, Web search basics
Chap. 20, Web crawling and indexes |
IIR Ch.19, MIR Ch.13
IIR Ch.20, MIR Ch.13 | |
| 14 | May 22, 2013 |
Chap. 21, Link analysis
Advanced topics and applications of IR: CLIR, Multimedia IR, and Semantic Search | IIR Ch.21, MIR 2.7 | Note: Only selected parts of Ch.21 will be introduced |
| 15 | May 29, 2013 | Final Presentation: Week 1 (10 teams scheduled, 8 teams completed.) | Due: HW#3 | |
| 16 | Jun. 5, 2013 | Final Presentation: Week 2 (12 teams scheduled, 11 teams completed.) | ||
| 17 | Jun. 12, 2013 | (Leave for Dragon Boat Festival) | ||
| 18 | Jun. 19, 2013 | Final Presentation: Week 3 (12 teams scheduled, 11 completed.) |
If you cannot successfully submit your work, please contact with the TA or the instructor.
[NOTE] Each team will have to go to the TA for obtaining data files. You can also use smaller sample files for testing purpose.
| Item | Description | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Proposal | You are required to submit a proposal for term project around midterm exam. | Apr. 28, 2013 (Sunday) |
| Topics |
The current list of topics in term project proposals is announced. (updated: May 22, 2013) Please check if there's any queston.
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 |
The current schedule of term project presentation has be arranged. (updated Jun. 5, 2013)
As of May 22, 2013, there are 54 students in 30 teams in total. Please check if there's any question. Due to our time limits, we will start the term project presentation on May 29, 2013. Each team is allocated up to 15-20 minutes for your presentation (and system demo). * [NOTE] All presentations *must* be finished within the scheduled time slots, which will be the last *three* weeks of this semester. No other time slots will be avbailable. If you have preferred time slots, please book at your earliest convenience in your proposal. |
May 29, Jun. 5, 19, 2013 |
| Report | Please upload your final report after finishing your presentation.
The final report should contain at least the following:
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Jun. 21, 2013 (Friday) |