Information Retrieval - CS60092

Spring Semester - 2017-18

Instructors

Animesh Mukherjee and Pawan Goyal

Course Timings

Lectures

Wednesday - 11:00 - 12:00 (NC-232)

Thursday - 12:00 - 13:00 (NC-232)

Friday - 8:00 - 9:00 (NC-232)

Teaching Assistants

Abhik Jana, Abhishek Dash and Mayank Bhasin

Announcements

There will be extra classes on April 9th and 10th, 2018 on "Neural Networks for IR". Venue will be CSE-107.

First Class on January 3rd, 11:00 AM.

Lecture Slides

January 3rd, 2018 Introduction
January 4th-5th, 2018 Boolean Retrieval
January 10th, 2018 Pre-processing
January 11th, 2018 Hands-on session
January 17th, 2018 Skip pointers, phrase queries, positional indexing
January 18th, 2018 Ranked Retrieval, Vector Space model
January 24-25th, 2018 Evaluation
January 31st - February 2nd, 2018 Dictionaries, Tolerant Retrieval
February 3rd, 2018 - Feb 16th, 2018 Summarization Material
March 7th - 14th, 2018 Index Construction
March 15th - 16th, 2018 Index Conmpression
March 22nd, 2018 Relevance Feedback - I
March 23rd, 2018 Relevance Feedback - II
March 24th, 2018 Language Modeling for IR
March 28th - April 12th, 2018 Post Mid Sem AM

Assignments

January 19th, 2018 - January 31st, 2018 Assignment 1: Boolean Retrieval

Text and Reference Literature

  1. Manning, Christopher D., Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze. Introduction to information retrieval, Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2008.