Spring 2014
This schedule is an outline what we plan to do. The details will evolve as we go.
The course schedule is aimed at a 36-hour course. The length of the course is thre weeks. The class will meet four times each week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each day we will meet for three class period, or about 150 minutes. The lecture hours may take the form of lectures, group discussions, project reviews, student presentations, and other teaching and learning activities.
The 36 lecture hours are tentatively divided into three content units, aiming at three classes per day and four days per week for three weeks.
Unit 1: Course introduction, Web search basics, Day 1 through Day 3
Unit 2: Essentials of information retrieval, Day 4 through Day 8
Unit 3: Selected topics, Day 10 and Day 11
The programming project and its related topics will be discussed throughout the lectures. We will use the textbook by Manning, Raghavan, and Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, ISBN 978-0521-86571-5. The book is available on line at http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html
| Class | Date | Topics & Lecture Notes | Readings | Work Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 01 | 05/26 (Mon) | Course Introduction, Project Introduction | Ch 19, Project website | ||
| Day 02 | 05/27 (Tue) | Web Search Architecture, Link Analysis, PageRank and HITS |
Ch 20, Ch 21, Papers | ||
| Day 03 | 05/28 (Wed) | Web search history, programming: Java Script and PHP Boolean Retrieval, Posting List |
Papers, Ch 1, Ch2 | Project Part 1: 11:59 p.m. | |
| Day 04 | 05/30 (Fri) | Index Construction, Compression | Ch 4, Ch 5 | ||
| Day 05 | 06/02 (Mon) | Compression (continue) | Papers | ||
| Day 06 | 06/03 (Tue) | Vector Space Model Term Weight, Ranking Mid-term Exam | Ch 6, Ch 7 | Project Part 2: 11:59 p.m. | |
| Day 07 | 06/04 (Wed) | Vector Space Model (continue) Programming: Crawling |
Ch 6, Ch 7, Paper | ||
| Day 08 | 06/06 (Fri) | Search engine: Google, Data Centers | Papers | Project Part 3: 11:59 p.m. | |
| Day 09 | 06/09 (Mon) | System Evaluation, Relevance Feedback | Ch 8, Ch 9 | ||
| Day 10 | 06/10 (Tue) | Text Classification, Vector Space Classification | Ch 13, Ch 14 | Project Part 4: 11:59 p.m. | |
| Day 11 | 06/11 (Wed) | Clustering Final Exam |
Ch 16, Ch 17 | ||
| Day 12 | 06/13 | Student Team Presentations | Team Presentation: 1:59 p.m. |