1

Overview

Tues Jan 11
First Class

Croft Ch. 1
Hearst Ch. 1

2

Information Seeking: 
Navigation/Browsing &
Search

Mon Jan 17
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tues Jan 18
Add/Drop ends

Hearst Ch. 3

3

Evaluation

Res Paper #1

Hearst Ch. 2
Croft Ch. 8

4

Inverted Indices

Assign 1

Croft Ch. 5

5

Inverted Indices
(cont'd)

6

Text Processing

Assign 2

Croft Ch. 4

7

Query Expansion

Res Paper #2

Croft Ch. 6

8

Query Expansion (cont'd)

Career Fair

9

Spring Break

Classes cancelled

10

Retrieval Models

Croft Ch. 7

11

Retrieval Models &
Learning to Rank 

12

Neural IR

Assign 3

PyTerrier
Tutorial

13

Neural IR

Res Paper #3

Final Quiz (Q10)

PyTerrier
Tutorial

14

Research Topic:
Conversational IR

Assign 4
(Tues)
Proj Proposals (Fri)

Tues: Project discussion
Thurs Class moved
to Friday 1pm (Zoom):
Dr. Hamed Zamani

15

Research Topic:
Math Search 

Tues: Behrooz presents
Math IR research & the ARQMath lab
Thurs: Project discussion

16

Exams:
No Class this Week

Final Project
Submissions &
Presentations

Mon Apr 25
End of Classes
Fri Apr 29 1:30-4pm
Exam (Presentations)
Golisano Hall (GOL)-3445 
Fri Apr 29 11:59pm
Final Projects Due