1
Jan 13

Overview:
Token-based retrieval

Tues Jan 14
First Lecture

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 1&2, pp. 1-8
Demartini
(ACM Comm. article)

2
Jan 20

Search UIs: Evaluation,
Navigation/Browsing
& Search

Tues:
Quiz 1 due
(~weekly after)

Mon Jan 20
Martin Luther King Day
Tues Jan 21
Add/Drop ends

Hearst
Tues Ch. 1.1-1.5, pp. 1-14
& Ch. 3
Thurs Ch. 2.2-2.6, pp. 34-52

3
Jan 27

Indexing Overview &
The Inverted Index

Friday:
Assign 1 due

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

4
Feb 3

Indexing Efficiency
and Compression

Friday:
R.Paper #1

Thurs:
Paper discussion

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

5
Feb 10

Executing Queries

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

6
Feb 17

Retrieval Models:
Boolean, BM25

Friday 5pm:
Project group signups

Croft Ch. 7.1-7.2
pp. 233-252

7
Feb 24

Text Processing

Friday:
Assign 2 due

Thurs:
Paper discussion

Croft Ch. 4

*8
Mar 3

PageRank;
Query processing; 
Search results & 
relevance feedback

Career Fair
Wed-Thurs Mar. 5/6

Croft 4.2 and 6.2-6.3
pp. 104-111;
pp. 190-211; 215-225

*9
Mar 10

Spring Break

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No Classes

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10
Mar 17

Evaluation:
effectiveness
& efficiency

Friday:
R. Paper #2

Croft Ch. 8.4-8.5
pp. 308-325
MathIR Book
Ch. 3 (retrieval bits)

11
Mar 24

PyTerrier,
Experimentation 

Friday:
Proposal due

Course "Carts" Open
Mon Mar 25

Lecture slides
(PyTerrier tutorials)

12
Mar 31

PyTerrier overview
(continued)

*Tuesday:
Class cancelled
Thursday:
Proposal feedback,
group discussions

PyTerrier slides

13
Apr 7

Proposals
BERT, ColBERT,
Neural IR

Tues:
Assign 3

Tuesday:
Proposal feedback,
group discussions.
Enrollment Begins
Mon April 7

PyTerrier slides
ColBERT paper
Alamaar BERT tutorial

14
Apr 14

Neural IR, continued

Tues:
Assign 4
Friday:
R.Paper #3

Tuesday:
Lecture cancelled
(recording will be available)
Thurs:
Paper discussion
Open Enrollment Ends
Thurs April 17

TBD

15
Apr 21

Project Discussions,
Course Review

Final Lecture
Thurs Apr 24

*16
Apr 28

Exam Week
Final Exam:
Fri 1:30-4pm
(Classroom)

Fri May 2
12pm projects due
1:30-4pm Final Exam
(regular classroom)

Tues Apr 29
Reading Day

17
May 5

Exam Week:
No Lectures
(Course complete)

Wed May 7
Last Day of Exams
Fri May 9
Final Grades Due