| Date | Description | Materials | Other Reading |
| Tu 1/29 | Course Overview |
syllabus intro |
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| Th 1/31 | Methods Homework 1 out |
ppt | ML crash course |
| Tu 2/5 | Boolean IR and Data Structures | ppt | IIR Ch. 1 |
| Th 2/7 | More Data Structures Term Vocabulary and Posting Lists |
ppt |
IIR Ch. 2, 3 |
| Tu 2/12 | Vector Models | ppt1 ppt2 |
IIR Ch. 6 |
| Th 2/14 | Vector Models (cont'd) | ||
| Tu 2/19 | Term Clustering and Query Expansion Evaluation |
ppt |
IIR Ch. 8 |
| Th 2/21 | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion | IIR Ch. 9 | |
| Homework 1 due | |||
| Tu 2/26 | Lucene Spelling Correction Homework 2 out |
pdf |
IIR Ch. 3 code |
| Th 2/28 | No class | ||
| Tu 3/5 | Supervised IR | ppt | IIR Ch. 13, 14 |
| Th 3/7 | SVD | IIR Ch. 18 | |
| Tu 3/12 | Flat Clustering | IIR Ch. 16 | |
| Th 3/14 | Hierarchichal Clustering | IIR Ch. 17 | |
| F 3/15 | Homework 2 due | ||
| Tu 3/19 | Spring Break | ||
| Th 3/21 | Spring Break | ||
| Tu 3/26 | Lexical Ambiguity Resolution | SLP Appendix C | |
| Th 3/28 | Word Sense Disambiguation EM for Named Entities Homework 3 out |
ppt |
Yarowsky (1995) |
| Tu 4/2 | Visualization | pdf1 pdf2 |
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| Th 4/4 | Web Crawling | ppt |
IIR Ch. 20 |
| F 4/5 | Homework 3 due | ||
| Tu 4/9 | Harvest Architecture | Bowman et al. (1994) | |
| Th 4/11 | Distributed Representations Question Answering |
pdf |
SLP Ch. 6 Mikolov et al. (2013) SLP Ch. 23 Mitra et al. (2016) |
| F 4/12 | Homework 4 due | ||
| Tu 4/16 | Link Analysis and Page Rank | ppt |
IIR Ch. 21 Page et al. (1999) |
| Th 4/18 | Music IR | website |
Wang (2003) |
| Tu 4/23 | Web Search | IIR Ch. 19 | |
| Th 4/25 | Cross-Lingual IR | ppt | CLIR book (Nie 2010) |
| Tu 4/30 | Collaborative Filtering | ppt | MMDS Ch. 9 |
| Th 5/2 | Personalization and Future | ppt1 ppt2 |
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| W 5/15 9am-12pm | Final Exam | ||
| Th 5/16 11:59pm | Final Project due | previous projects |