Assignment Schedule:
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W |
R |
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| Week 01 | January 7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
Web Search Basics |
Lecture 01 (Notes) |
Lecture 02 Discussion 01 |
Lecture 03 Assignment 01 is due |
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| Week 02 | 14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
Web Crawling and Indices |
Lecture 04 |
Lecture 05 Discussion 02 Quiz 01 Assignment 02 is due |
Lecture 06 |
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| Week 03 | 21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
Catch-up week (Web Search Basics continued)
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No Class
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Lecture 07 Discussion 03 Quiz 02 |
Lecture 08 |
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| Week 04 | 28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
February 1 |
Index Construction |
Lecture 09 |
Lecture 10 Discussion 04 |
Lecture 11
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| Week 05 | 4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Querying, Scoring
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Lecture 12 |
Lecture 13 Discussion 05 Quiz 03 |
Lecture 14 Assignment 03 is due
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| Week 06 | 11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
Scoring, Term Weighting and the Vector Space model
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Lecture 15 |
Lecture 16 Discussion 06 Assignment 04 is due
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Lecture 17 |
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| Week 07 | 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
Matrix decompositions and latent semantic indexing |
President's Day Holiday |
Lecture 18 Discussion 07 Quiz 04 (on RL 04) |
Lecture 19 Assignment 05 is due
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| Week 08 | 25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
Link analysis |
Lecture 20 |
Lecture 21 Discussion 08 (Slides) |
Lecture 22 |
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| Week 09 | March 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Evaluation in Information Retrieval |
Lecture 23 Assignment 06 is due (create a postings list) |
Lecture 24 Discussion 09 Quiz 05 (RL 05) |
Lecture 25 |
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| Week 10 | 10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
Relevance feedback and query expansion |
Lecture 26 Assignment 07 is due (rapid cosine querying)
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Lecture 27 Discussion 10 |
Lecture 28  sugarfreak |
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| Finals Week | 17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |