Introduction to Information Retrieval
, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Companion Website
Lecturers: Sven Helmer and Dell Zhang
Programme: MSc CS and MSc AIS/IWT/IT
Time: Friday evenings 6pm - 9pm
Room: MAL G16 [BBK Maps]
Code: COIY064H7
Document: Module Specification
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Christopher D. Manning,
Prabhakar Raghavan, and
Hinrich Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval , Cambridge University Press, 2008. Companion Website |
| Week | Date | Session I | Session II |
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| 1-6 | 13/01/2012 20/01/2012 27/01/2012 03/02/2012 10/02/2012 17/02/2012 |
Please go to Sven's IR page | |
| 7 | 24/02/2012 |
* A Breif Introduction to Probability and Statistics [slides] [example] |
Chapter 11 Probabilistic Information Retrieval [slides] |
| 8 | 02/03/2012 |
Chapter 12 Language Models for Information Retrieval [slides] [example] |
Chapter 13 Text Classification & Naive Bayes [slides] [example] |
| 9 | 09/03/2012 |
Chapter 14 Vector Space Classification [slides] [demo] [example] |
Support Vector Machines & Machine Learning on Documents [slides] |
| 10 | 16/03/2012 |
Chapter 16 Flat Clustering [slides] [demo] [example] |
Chapter 17 Hierarchical Clustering [slides] [example] |
| 11 | 23/03/2012 |
Chapter 18 Matrix Decompositions & Latent Semantic Indexing [slides] |
Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval [slides] |
| -- | 30/03/2012 | Coursework Part 2 - Submission Deadline | |
| -- | Friday 11/05/2012 6pm - 9pm |
Revision Lecture at Clore MC, CLO G01 |
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Coursework: 20%
Part 1: An assignment for Sven's lectures.
Normal deadline: Fri 24/02/2012
Cut-off deadline: Fri 09/03/2012
Part 2: An assignment for Dell's lectures.
Normal deadline: Fri 30/03/2012
Cut-off deadline: Fri 13/04/2012
Penalty for late submission: a maximum mark of 50.
Method of submission: through Blackboard.
Examination: 80%
[NB] Mock Exam Paper
Past exam papers can be found at Birkbeck eLibrary.
Students committed to excellence are welcome to contact me for final project ideas.
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Peter Norvig: How to Write a Spelling Corrector.
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Robert M. Bell et al.: The Million Dollar Programming Prize, IEEE Spectrum, May 2009.
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search
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Jeffrey Dean: Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems (WSDM-2009 Keynote Speech). [VideoLecture]
UC Berkeley Course SIMS141: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business [Guest Lecture Videos].
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Stanford Course CS276/LING286: Information Retrieval and Web Mining
Stuttgart Course: Introduction to Information Retrieval
MSU Course CSE484: Information Retrieval
Cornell Course CS430/INFO430: Information Retrieval
UNT Course CSCE5200: Information Retrieval and Web Search
UIUC Course CS410: Introduction to Text Information Systems (Spring 2008)
UIUC Course CS598: Integrative Intelligent Information Systems (Spring 2008)
UMass Course CS646: Information Retrieval
UCSC Course ISM260: Information Retrieval
UTexas Course CS 371R: Information Retrieval and Web Search
UPenn Course CIS 430: Introduction to Human Language Technology
PSU Course IST 441: Information Retrieval and Search Engines
UNC Course INLS 490-154: Introduction to Information Retrieval System Design and Implementation (Fall 2008)
IIT Course CS429: Introduction to Information Retrieval
Columbia Course COMS 6998: Search Engine Technology
Colorado Course CSCI 7000-001:Introduction to Information Retrieval
JHU Course 605.744: Information Retrieval (Spring 2009)
UCL Course M052: Information Retrieval