1
Jan 15

Overview:
Token-based retrieval

Tues Jan 16
First Lecture

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 1&2, pp. 1-8

2
Jan 22

Search UIs: Evaluation,
Navigation/Browsing
& Search

Thurs:
Quiz 1  
(weekly after)

Tues Jan 23
Add/Drop ends

Hearst
Tues Ch. 1.1-1.5, pp. 1-14
& Ch. 3
Thurs Ch. 2.2-2.6, pp. 34-52

3
Jan 29

Indexing Overview &
The Inverted Index

Friday:
Assign 1 

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 3-5, pp. 8-16
Croft 5.1-5.3
pp. 125-139

4
Feb 5

Indexing Efficiency
and Compression

Friday:
R.Paper #1

Thurs:
Paper discussion

Zobel & Moffat
Secs. 6-8, pp. 16-24
Croft 5.4-5.6
pp. 140-164

5
Feb 12

Executing Queries

Croft 5.7,  pp. 165-182
*Zobel & Moffat
Secs 9-10, pp. 24-30

6
Feb 19

Retrieval Models:
Boolean, BM25

Friday 5pm:
Project group signups

Croft Ch. 7.1-7.2
pp. 233-252

7
Feb 26

Text Processing

Tues:
Assign 2
Thurs:
R. Paper #2

Croft Ch. 4

8
Mar 4

Evaluating Effectiveness
& Efficiency of Retrieval

Career Fair
Wed Mar. 6

Croft 6.2-6.3
pp. 190-211; 215-225
*Croft Ch. 8.4-8.5
pp. 308-325

9
Mar 11

Spring Break

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No Classes

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10
Mar 18

Showing search hits,
Query Languages
(example: Galago)

Croft Ch. 7.3-7.6
pp. 252-283

11
Mar 25

Learning to Rank,
Neural Techniques

Tuesday:
Proposal due

Course "Carts" Open
Mon Mar 25

Croft Ch. 7.7
pp. 284-288

12
Apr 1

BERT & ColBERT

TBD

13
Apr 8

Large Language Models

Monday:
Assign 3
Friday:
R.Paper #3

Thurs:
Paper discussion
Enrollment Begins
Mon April 8

TBD

14
Apr 15

Neural IR, continued

Friday:
Assign 4

Enrollment Ends
Thurs April 18

TBD

15
Apr 22

Project Discussions,
Course Review

Final Lecture
Thurs Apr 25

16
Apr 29

Exam Week:
No Lectures
Final Exam:
Fri 1:30-4pm
(Classroom)

Fri (Exam):
Project
Presentations

Tues Apr 30
Reading Day
**Fri May 3**
Final Exam 1:30-4pm
(regular classroom)
*Final Projects 11:59pm

17
May 6

Exam Week:
No Lectures

(None)

Wed May 8
Last Day of Exams
Fri May 10
Final Grades Due