CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval

Spring 2024


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 110 


Audrey

Office hour:  Tuesdays from 3-4 PM in WCH 110


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:

Assignment

assignment 1

assignment 2

Project

project

Late submissions, submitted before solutions are presented or posted, will receive a 20% score reduction.

Tentative Lectures' Schedule

CS172 schedule

Other Resources

writing tips

 


Textbook

Free download at https://ciir.cs.umass.edu/irbook/

Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice

Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman

Addison Wesley; 1 edition (February 16, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0136072240

ISBN-13: 978-0136072249

http://www.search-engines-book.com/

 

Also recommended for reference:

 

Policies

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