Information Retrieval and Organisation

Tutors: Dell Zhang and Mark Levene
Time: Tuesday evenings 6pm - 9pm (Spring Term)
Room: Westminster Kingsway College (the King's Cross Centre) K214 [Room Description] [BBK-DCS Teaching Map]
Code: COIY064H7
Document: Module Specification

NOTICE: The exam date has been tentatively set to Wed 12-Jun-13 (10:00am - 12:00noon) .

Textbook

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze,
Introduction to Information Retrieval,
Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Companion Website

Syllabus

Week	Date	Session I	Session II
1	08/01/2013	Chapter 00 Motivation [slides]	Chapter 01 Boolean Retrieval [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]
2	15/01/2013	Chapter 02 The Term Vocabulary and Postings Lists [slides]	Chapter 03 Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]
3	22/01/2013	Chapter 04 Index Construction [slides]	Chapter 05 Index Compression [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]
4	29/01/2013	Chapter 06 Scoring, Term Weighting, and the Vector Space Model [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s] [example]	Chapter 07 Computing Scores in a Complete Search System [slides]
5	05/02/2013	* Suffix Tree and Suffix Array [slides] [classwork-p]	Chapter 08 Evaluation in Information Retrieval [slides] [example]
6	12/02/2013	Chapter 09 Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion [slides]	Chapter 09 Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion [slides]
7	19/02/2013	* A Brief Introduction to Probability and Statistics [slides] [example]	Chapter 11 Probabilistic Information Retrieval [slides]
8	26/02/2013	Chapter 12 Language Models for Information Retrieval [slides] [example]	Chapter 13 Text Classification & Naive Bayes [slides] [example]
--	26/02/2013	Coursework Part 1 - Submission Deadline
9	05/03/2013	Chapter 14 Vector Space Classification [slides] [demo] [example]	Chapter 15 Support Vector Machines & Machine Learning on Documents [slides]
10	12/03/2013	Chapter 16 Flat Clustering [slides] [demo] [example]	Chapter 17 Hierarchical Clustering [slides] [example]
11	19/03/2013	Chapter 18 Matrix Decompositions & Latent Semantic Indexing [slides]	* Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval [slides]
--	02/04/2013	Coursework Part 2 - Submission Deadline
--	Tuesday 07/05/2013 6pm - 9pm	Revision Lecture at MAL B33

Assessment

Coursework: 20%
Part 1
Normal deadline: Tue 26/02/2013 23:55
Cut-off deadline: Tue 12/03/2013 23:55
Part 2
Normal deadline: Tue 02/04/2013 23:55
Cut-off deadline: Tue 16/04/2013 23:55
Penalty for late submission (i.e., after the normal deadline): the maximum mark is capped at half of the normal full mark.
Please submit your solutions in electronic form, through the Moodle system.

Examination: 80%
[NB] Mock Exam Paper
Past exam papers can be found at Birkbeck eLibrary.