Tentative Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Reading
1 1/7 Intro & Logistics Ch. 1, 2
1/9 Overview of IR
1/11 Vector Space Model
2 1/14 Probabilistic Model Ch. 7.1,7.2,7.3 (except 7.3.2)
1/16 Language Model
1/18
3 1/21 Holiday Ch. 3
1/23 Crawling
1/25 Storing
4 1/28 Distributed stores
1/30 Review Session
2/1 Midterm 1
5 2/4 Indexing Ch. 5 (except 5.4.2-5.4.7, 5.7.4-5.7.5)
1/6 Indexing Cont.
1/8 Query Processing
6 211 Scoring
213 Evaluation Ch. 8
215 Evaluation Cont.
7 2/18 Holiday
2/20 Link Analysis Ch. 4.5
2/22 Map-Reduce (MR) Intro
8 2/25 Link Analysis w MR
2/27 Tentatively No Class (Attending Conference)
2/29 More on MR
9 3/4 More on MR
3/6 Review Session
3/8 Midterm 2
10 3/11 Social Search Intro Ch 10
3/13 Collaborative Filtering
3/15 Advanced Topics