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Week 1

August 28th

Introduction to the course

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Readings: AI Policy, Shakespeare search

To DO
  • Find our class signup link for Piazza. It will serve as our dedicated space for course interactions, addressing doubts, facilitating Q&A, and broadcasting important announcements.
  • Read the Academic Integrity (AI) Policy carefully.
  • Download the slides and go through the course structure carefully.
August 30th

Inverted Index and Boolean Model

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Readings: Chapter 1

To DO
  • AI Quiz - Will be released on Friday (Sept 1) and will be Due on Sept 8th 11:59 PM. You should take the quiz and score 100% (unlimited attempts)

Week 2

September 6th

Tokenization, Text analysis, Tolerant Retrieval

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Readings: Chapter 2, Wordnet Lemmatization, Text Analysis Tool

To DO
  • Make sure to complete the AI Quiz which is due September 8th 11:59 PM ET.

Week 3

September 11th

Tolerant Retrieval

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Readings: Chapter 3

To DO
  • Project 1 released, due 27th Sept 11:59 PM (ET)
September 13th

Creating Inverted Index

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Readings: Chapter 4

To DO
  • Project 1 due 27th Sept 11:59 PM (ET)

Week 4

September 18th

Index Compression

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Readings: Chapter 5

To DO
  • Project 1 released, due 27th Sept 11:59 PM (ET)
September 20th

TF-IDF & VSM

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Readings: Chapter 6

To DO
  • Project 1 due 27th Sept 11:59 PM (ET)

Week 5

September 27th

Efficient Scoring

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Readings: Chapter 6,7
Midterm Instructions: Instructions

To DO
  • Project 1 due Sept 29, 11:59 PM.

Week 6

October 4th

Midterm Discussions & Tokenization of Transformers

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Week 7

October 11th

Evaluating a search engine

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Readings: Chapter 8

Week 8

October 16th

Evaluating a search engine 2

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Readings: Chapter 8

October 18th

Relevance Feedback & Query Expansion

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Readings: Chapter 9

Week 9

October 23rd

Probabilistic IR

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Readings: Chapter 11

October 25th

Language Models

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Readings: Chapter 12

Week 10

October 30th

Web Search 1

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Readings: Chapter 19

November 1st

Web Crawling

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Readings: Chapter 20

Week 11

November 6th

Link Analysis

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Readings: Chapter 21

November 8th

HITS and LSI

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Readings: Chapter 18,21
Midterm 2 Instructions and Sample Questions: Download

Week 12

November 15th

Project 3 Discussion and Word2Vec

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Readings: Word2Vec

Week 13

November 20th

Project 3 Discussion and Transformers (Self Attention)

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Readings: The Illustrated Transformer

Week 14

November 30th

RAG Tutorial

Readings: RAG