1
Jan 16

Overview:
IR & Search interfaces

Mon Jan 16
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(No Classes)
Tues Jan 17
First Lecture

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 1&2, pp. 1-8
Hearst
Ch. 1.1-1.5, pp. 1-14

2
Jan 23

Search UI Evaluation;
Navigation/Browsing
& Search

Tues 1pm:
Quiz 1 due
(weekly 
thereafter)

Tues Jan 24
Add/Drop ends

Hearst
Ch. 2.2-2.6
pp. 34-52
Ch. 3

3
Jan 30

Indexing Overview &
The Inverted Index

Friday 5pm:
Assign 1 due

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 3-5, pp. 8-16
Croft 5.1-5.3
pp. 125-139

4
Feb 6

Indexing Efficiency
and Compression

Friday 5pm:
R.Paper #1
Summary

Thurs:
Paper discussion

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 6-8, pp. 16-24
Croft 5.4-5.6
pp. 140-164

5
Feb 13

Indexing,
Executing Queries

Croft 5.7,  pp. 165-182
Zobel & Moffat
Secs 9-10, pp. 24-30

6
Feb 20

Indexing and Query
Execution, Cont'd

Friday 5pm:
R.Paper #2
Summary

Thurs:
Paper discussion

7
Feb 27

Indexing + Queries,
Cont'd

Thurs:
Project proposal
released

8
Mar 6

Evaluation

Career Fair
Wed Mar. 8

Croft Ch. 8.4-8.5
pp. 308-325
Croft Ch. 4

9
Mar 13

Spring Break

No Classes

10
Mar 20

Text Processing: 
Zipf, Heap's, Stemming,
Phrases & N-grams,
PageRank

Croft Ch. 4

11
Mar 27

Query Expansion, Results,
Retrieval Models

Monday 11:59pm:
Assign 2

Course "Carts" Open
Mon Mar 27

Croft 6.2
pp. 190-211

12
Apr 3

Search results,
Retrieval Models
(Bool, Vector, Prob.)

Monday 5pm:
Project Proposal

Croft 6.3
pp. 215-225
Ch. 7.1-7.2
pp. 233-252

13
Apr 10

PyTerrier,
Learning to Rank,
Neural IR

Friday 5pm:
Assign 3

Enrollment Begins
Mon April 10

14
Apr 17

Neural IR, continued

Friday 5pm:
Assign 4

Enrollment Ends
Thurs April 20

15
Apr 24

Project Discussions,
Course Review

Friday 5pm:
Paper summary #3

Final Lecture
Thurs Apr 27
Thurs:
Paper discussion

16
May 1

Exam Week:
No Lectures
Final Exam:
Fri 1:30-4pm
(Classroom)

Fri (Exam):
Project
Presentations

Mon May 1
Last Day of Classes
Tues May 2
Reading Day
Fri May 5
Final Exam 1:30-4pm

17
May 8

Exam Week:
No Lectures
Final Projects Due
Mon 11:59pm

Mon 11:59pm:
Final project
reports &
implementations

Wed May 10
Last Day of Exams
Fri May 12
Final Grades Due