CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval

General Info

Instructor: Vagelis Hristidis

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

Location: School of Business Building | Room 165

Office hours: Monday 3-4 pm WCH 317

TAs:

Meem

Office hour: TBD at WCH 110 

Taukir

Office hour:  TBD at WCH 110

Graders:

Aarav Babu <ababu009@ucr.edu>

Preksha Mathur <pmath008@ucr.edu>

Dhruv Agrawal <dhruv.agrawal@email.ucr.edu>

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 solutions are presented or posted, will receive a 20% score reduction.

Tentative Lectures' Schedule