CS 3308 - Information Retrieval

Syllabus

1. Introduction to IR, Boolean Retrieval, and Terms and Postings (Chapters 1 & 2)
2. Dictionaries and Index Construction (Chapters 3 & 4)
3. Index Compression (Chapter 5)
4. Scoring, Term Weighting, and the Vector Space Model (Chapter 6)
5. Scoring and Ranking in a Complete Search System (Chapter 7)
6. Evaluation in Information Retrieval (Chapter 8)
7. Introduction to Web Search (Chapter 19)
8. Web Crawling (Chapters 20 & 21)
9. Course Review and Final Exam

Resources

• 8 Discussions (10%), 8 Journals (10%), 4 Programming Assignments (30%).
• The 4 programming assignments build 1 project to build an IR system:
  1. Indexer 1: Inverted Index (week 2).
  2. Indexer 2: Index Compression (week 4).
  3. Search Engine (week 5).
  4. Web Crawler (week 7).
• Manning, C.D., Raghaven, P., & Schütze, H. (2009). An Introduction to Information Retrieval (Online ed.). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Available at https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs276
• Stanford University Information Retrieval course. https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
• SQLite Tutorial. https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/