Lecture Notes and Assigned Readings

Date	Lecture Topic and Handouts	Readings

Thurs 8/29	Introduction to the field	Some of the lecture material covered in: Croft et al., Ch. 1; Manning et al., first few pages of Ch. 1.
Tues 9/03	Relevance, evaluation and users
Thurs 9/05	Search engine architecture: indexing	Croft et al., Ch. 2
Tues 9/10	Search engine architecture: querying
Thurs 9/12	Web crawlers I	Croft et al., Ch. 3-3.4 MRS Ch. 20 Critique 1 due (Weds 9/11, 11:59pm via CMS): Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. 1998. The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine. In Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7 (WWW7).
Tues 9/17	Web crawlers II	Croft et al., Ch. 3.5-3.8
Thurs 9/19	No Class (no classroom)
Tues 9/24	Web statistics, tokenization, stopping	Croft et al., Ch.4.1-4.3.3 MRS Ch.2-2.4
Thurs 9/26	Stemming and link analysis	Croft et al.,Ch.4.34-4.5 MRS Ch. 2.2.4;Ch.21
Tues 10/1	Phrases and named entities	Croft et al., Ch. 4.3-4.7 MRS 2.2, 2.4 Project 1 - Analytical Questions due Mon 9/30, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy in class Tues 10/1.
Thurs 10/3	Guest lecture: PhD Candidate Joshua Moore Playlist prediction and music retrieval	Croft et al., Ch 11.6 Project 1 - Programming Questions due Wed 10/2, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy in class Thurs 10/3.
Tues 10/08	Inverted indexes	Croft et al., Ch. 5-5.3 MRS 1.1-1.2
Thurs 10/10	Text categorization: detecting fake on-line reviews	Ott et al. (ACL 2011)
Tues 10/15	FALL BREAK - NO CLASSES
Thurs 10/17	Index compression	Croft et al. Ch 5.4 MRS Ch. 5
Tues 10/22	Index construction	Croft et al., 5.5-5.7
Thurs 10/24	Evaluation basics	Croft et al. 8-8.4.1, 8.4.3 / MRS 8-8.4
Tues 10/29	Retrieval models I	Croft et al. 7-7.2 Critique 2 due (Mon 10/28, 11:59pm via CMS): Henry Feild, James Allan, and Rosie Jones. 2010. Predicting Searcher Frustration. In Proceedings of the 33rd International ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010). MRS Ch.1, Ch.6
Thurs 10/31	Retrieval models II More on metrics	Croft et al. 7.2, 8.4.2 / MRS Ch.11
Tues 11/5	Language models I	Project 2 - Analytical Questions due Mon 11/4, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy in class Tues 11/5.
Thurs 11/7	Language models II and relevance feedback	Croft et al. 7.3, 6.2.4 Project 2 - Programming Questions due Wed 11/6, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy in class Thurs 11/7.
Tues 11/12	Guest lecture: Prof. David Mimno Topic Models	Demo materials are here: http://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/sotu-model.zip
Thurs 11/14	Guest lecture: PhD Candidate Parvaz Mahdabi Patent Retrieval
Tues 11/19	Guest lecture: PhD Candidate Jon Park Query refinement	Croft et al. 6-6.2.1, 6.2.3
Thurs 11/21	Clustering	Croft et al. 9.2 MRS 16-16.1, 16.4, 17-17.4
Tues 11/26	Learning to rank	Croft et al. 7.5, 7.6, 9.1.2 MRS 15-15.2.2; 15.4.4
Thurs 11/28	THANKSGIVING BREAK
Tues 12/3	Text classification applications: Spam detection and sentiment analysis	Croft et al. 9.1.5 MRS 19.2.2
Thurs 12/5	Online advertising Semester review	Croft et al. 9.1.5 MRS 19.3 Project 3 -Analytical Questions due Weds 12/4, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy in class Thurs 12/5. Project 3 -Programming Questions due Fri 12/6, 11:59pm via CMS; hardcopy to Claire or the TAs on Mon 12/9. Critique 3 due Fri 12/6 11:59pm (no late points until Mon 11:59pm, however); hardcopy to Claire or the TAs on Tues 12/10.