| Date | Topic | Slides | Coursework/other | Lecturer |
| Week1 |
Motivation Boolean Retrieval |
Slides (Chapter 0)
Slides (Chapter 1) |
Classwork 1 (not marked, done interactively in class)
Example solution for Classwork 1 |
Sven Helmer |
| Week 2 |
Determining Term Vocabulary
for Inverted Indexes Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval |
Slides (Chapter 2)
Slides (Chapter 3) |
Coursework
Deadline: 24 February 2012 |
Sven Helmer |
| Week 3 |
Dictionaries and
Tolerant Retrieval (continued) Index Construction |
Slides (Chapter 4) |
Classwork 2 (not marked, done interactively in class)
Example solution for Classwork 2 |
Sven Helmer |
| Week 4 |
Index Compression Scoring, Term Weighting, and the Vector Space Model |
Slides (Chapter 5)
Slides (Chapter 6) |
Classwork 3 (not marked, done interactively in class)
Example solution for Classwork 3 |
Sven Helmer |
| Week 5 |
Scores in a Complete Search
System Evaluation and Result Summaries |
Slides (Chapter 7)
Slides (Chapter 8) |
Sven Helmer | |
| Week 6 | Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion | Slides (Chapter 9) | Sven Helmer | |
| Week 7-11 | See Dell's web page | Dell Zhang |