CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval
Spring 2025
General Info
Instructor: Vagelis Hristidis
Lecture time: Mon/Wed 11-12:20 pm
Location: School of Business Building | Room 165
Office hours: Monday 2-3 pm WCH 317
TAs:
Office hour: Wednesday 3-4 pm at WCH 110
Office hour: Fridays 3-4 pm 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
Project
Late submissions, submitted before solutions are presented or posted, will receive a 20% score reduction.
Tentative Lectures' Schedule
