Date, Time, and Room |
Lecture Title and
Contents |
Introduction to IR book (draft available
online)
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27 Aug 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
- Course overview
- Basic IR terminology, ideas, architecture
- Keyword search
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Ch. 1 |
3 Sep 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 2: Basic IR Models and Indexing
- The dictionary and postings lists
- Tolerant Retrieval
- Index construction
- Index compression
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Ch. 2,
Ch. 3,
Ch. 4,
Ch. 5
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10 Sep 2007 Monday
13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 3: Classification
- Naive Bayes, Bayesian Networks
- Nearest Neighbour and SVM
- Decision tree learning
- Ensemble learning
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Ch. 13,
Ch. 14,
Ch. 15
Alternative reading1
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14 Sep 2007 Friday 8:45 10:30 AUD 9 |
Lecture 4: Clustering
- kMeans
- Expectation Maximization
- Hierarchical clustering
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Ch. 16,
Ch. 17
Alternative reading1 |
17 Sep 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 5: Data/Dimensionality Reduction
- Sampling approaches
- Feature selection approaches
- PCA, SVD, LDA
- Random projections
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Ch. 18 Links to reading material |
21 Sep 2007 Friday 8:45 10:30 AUD 9 |
Lecture 6: Web mining
- Content mining
- Structure mining
- Usage mining
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Links to reading material |
24 Sep 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 7: IR Models: Vector Space
- Vector space retrieval
- Latent-Concept Models
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Ch. 6,
Ch. 18
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1 Oct 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 IPO 0.98 |
Online questionnaire for ML module (it is necessary to bring a laptop that has an access to TUe network (Lan or WiFi)) |
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8 Oct 2007 Monday (extended) Deadline |
Submit your reports on the 1st and 2nd Individual Assignments.
**Please note, those student who attend AS (2ID55) course and do not attend IR (2ID25) course are required to do only Individual Assignent 2 |
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8 Oct 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.50 |
Lecture 8: Evaluation in IR and Relevance Feedback
- Basic evaluating principles
- Relevance and utility
- Query expansion
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Ch. 8,
Ch. 9
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15 Oct 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.50 |
Lecture 9: Advanced IR Models
- Probabilistic IR
- Statistical Language Models
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Ch. 11,
Ch. 12,
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22 Oct 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.50 |
Lecture 10: Search engines
- Web search basics
- Web crawling and indexes
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Ch. 19,
Ch. 20
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29 Oct 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.50 |
Lecture 11: Link Analysis
- Web spam, SEO
- Reference models
- Googles Pagerank
- Hub and authorities
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Ch. 19,
Ch. 21 |
5 Nov 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
No lecture this week. Please visit my office for discussing your project proposal if it has not been finalized. Nov 5 is also a dealine to submit your final proposal |
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9 Nov 2007 Friday 8:45 - 10:30 AUD 9 |
Lecture 12: Recommender Systems
- Content-based filtering
- Collaborative filtering
- Hybrid approaches
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Links to reading material |
12 Nov 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 IPO 0.98 |
Online questionnaire for traditional IR module (it is necessary to bring a laptop that has an access to TUe network (Lan or WiFi)) |
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26 Nov 2007 (Extended) Monday Deadline |
Submit your report on the 3rd Individual Assignment |
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19 Nov 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 13: MultiMedia retrieval
- Automatic content based analysis
- GEMINI and time-series mining view
- Semantic gap
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Links to reading material |
26 Nov 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 14: Information extraction
- Question answering on the web
- Relation extraction
- Text summarization
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Links to reading material |
3 Dec 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Lecture 15: Closing Lecture
- Brief summary of the course
- Not covered topics and further reading
- Advanced R&D issues in IR
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Links to reading material |
10 Dec 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 IPO 0.98 |
Online questionnaire for Web IR and Personalization modules (it is necessary to bring a laptop that has an access to TUe network (Lan or WiFi)) |
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10 Dec 2007 Monday Deadline |
Submission of the delayed reports (if any) on the Individual Assignments (-1 for your grade) |
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10 Dec 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Questions/feedback regarding the outcomes of the Individual Assignments and Online questionnaires |
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17 Dec 2007 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Student presentations of their project work
(A schedule will be posted a few days in advance)
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21 Dec 2007 Monday Deadline |
Submit your group report on the Project Assignment |
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14th or 21st Jan 2008 Monday 13:30 15:15 MA1.46 |
Delayed project presentations by students (-1 for your grade unless motivated and agreed at least 1 month before the deadline). |
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