CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval

General Info

Instructor: Vagelis Hristidis

Lecture time: Mon/Wed 11-12:20 pm

Location: MSE 104

Office hours: Monday 3-4 pm WCH 317

TAs:

Shihab Rashid

Office hour:  Thursdays 4-5 PM at WCH 363

Meem

Office hour: Fridays 10 am -11 am at WCH 363

Audrey

Office hour: TBD

Readers (assignments, midterms, quizzes grading): Sai Vamsi Reddy Kinkiri, Sri Vijay Bhargav Noone

Grading

15% quizzes (worst 2 quizzes will be discarded)

25% midterm 1

25% midterm 2

10% assignment

25% project

Course Description

Information Retrieval (IR) principles including indexing and searching document collections, Web search and advanced topics like search in social networks.

Some of the topics which will be tentatively presented are:

• Vector Model

• Probabilistic IR

• IR evaluation methods

• Web search

• Deep learning-based methods

• Social networks search

Assignment

assignment 1

assignment 2

Project

project

Late submissions, submitted before assignments or projects are graded, will receive a 20% score reduction.

Tentative Lectures' Schedule