The schedule of instruction will be approximately as follows:
Class Date Topic
1 2 Sep Course Administration, Boolean retrieval (Chapter 1) 2 9 Sep The term vocabulary and postings lists (Chapter 2) 3 16 Sep Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval (Chapter 3) 4 23 Sep Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model (Chapter 6) 5 30 Sep Computing scores in a complete search system (Chapter 7) 6 7 Oct Evaluation in information retrieval (Chapter 8) 7 14 Oct Relevance feedback and query expansion (Chapter 9) 8 21 Oct Catch up, review and problem solving 9 28 Oct Mid-term Exam 10 4 Nov Web search basics (Chapter 19) 11 11 Nov Web crawling and indexes (Chapter 20) 12 18 Nov Link analysis (Chapter 21) 13 25 Nov --- Thanksgiving Recess --- 2 Dec TBD 14 9 Dec Catch up, review and problem solving 15 16 Dec Final exam