Date, Time, and Room |
Lecture Title and
Contents |
Introduction to IR book (draft available
online)
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1 Sep 2014 Monday 15:45 - 17:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
- Basic IR terminology, ideas, architecture
- Course overview, practicalities
- Overview of possible group project assignments
|
Ch. 1 |
2 Sep 2014 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 2: Boolean IR and Document indexing
- Boolean information retrieval
- Inverted, skip and positional index
|
Ch. 1,
Ch. 2,
Ch. 3, (optional)
Ch. 4, (optional)
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8 Sep 2014 Monday 13:45-–15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 3: Vector space retrieval
- From Boolean to vector space retrieval
- Latent-Concept Models
- Relevance feedback and query expansion
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Ch. 6,
Ch. 18,
Ch. 9
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9 Sep 2014 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 4: Data mining for IR. Classification
- Naive Bayes, Nearest Neighbour, Decision tree learning
- Ensemble learning
- Evaluation of classification
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Ch. 13,
Ch. 14, &
Ch. 15
(or IDM: Ch. 4)
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15 Sep 2014 Monday 13:45 - 15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 5: Clustering and data/dimensionality reduction
- Partitioning (kMeans) vs. hierarchical (AHC) clustering
- Density-based clustering (DBSCAN)
- Sampling, feature selection and feature transformation approaches
|
Ch. 16 &
Ch. 17
(or IDM: Ch. 5),
Ch. 18
|
16 Sep 2014 Tuesday 15:45-–17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 6: Peculiarities of Classification and Clustering in IR/AS
- Availability and independence of labels
- Semi-supervised learning
- Labeling of clustering, evaluation of clustering in general vs. in IR
- Drifting data
| Links to reading material |
18 Sep 2014 |
Deadline: Submit your group project proposal in Sakai. E-mail a copy to 2ID26.Teachers@gmail.com cc-ing everyone in your project group. |
22 Sep 2014 Monday 13:45 - 15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 7: Link mining for Information retrieval
- Web spam, SEO
- Google’s Pagerank, Hub and authorities (HITS)
- Link mining for better ranking on SERP.
|
Ch. 19,
Ch. 21 |
23 Sep 2014
Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 8: Web usage mining
- Association analysis: Itemset mining, Apriori principle
- Usage data and its utility for IR
|
IDM: Ch. 6 |
29 Sep 2014 Monday 13:45-–15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 9: Personalization with user modelling
- Basic ideas and the current state-of-the-art
- Adaptive news access as an example
- Challenges being tackled in research community
|
Links to reading material |
30 Sep 2014 Tuesday 15:45-–17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 10: IR Evaluation
- Basic evaluation principles
- Metrics, experimentation protocols, benchmarking
|
Ch. 8,
|
6 Oct 2014 Monday 13:45 - 15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 11: Probabilistic IR
- Probability ranking principle
- Language models
- Understanding the commonalities and differences of IR models
Ch. 11,
Ch. 12,
| |
7 Oct 2014 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 AUD 2 |
Lecture 12: MultiMedia retrieval
- Automatic content based analysis
- GEMINI and time-series mining view
- Semantic gap
|
Handouts and Introduction to the Multimedia Retrieval book |
10 Oct 2014 Friday |
Trial exam is available on Sakai. Complete it any time but until 21:00, Oct 13th. On Oct 14th we will discuss common mistakes (if any).
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13 Oct 2014 Monday 13:45 - 15:30 Pav. u46 |
Lecture 13: Past, Present and Future of IR: Closing Lecture
- Brief summary of the course and not covered topics
- Advanced R&D issues in IR, current trends
- Info on project poster and demo presentation, project deliverables
|
Links to reading material |
14 Oct 2014 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 AUD 2 |
QA session:
- Come with questions if any (do the trial exam by Monday)
- Feedback on trial exam
- Q&A session
|
Links to reading material |
17 Oct 2014 17:30 |
Deadline: Submit your group project report. E-mail a copy to 2ID26.Teachers@gmail.com cc-ing everyone in your project group.
- Detailed instructions on deliverables and how the projects will be evaluated can be found in Sakai.
- Important: group report, besides overall architecture and achievements should contain clearly identifiable DM part and IR part for each group member.
|
20 Oct 2014 12:45 - 15:30 Pav. u46 |
Groups 1-6 project presentations:
- Demo plus poster presentation,
- Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade.
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21 Oct 2014 15:45 - 18:30 AUD 2 |
Groups 7-12 project presentations:
- Demo plus poster presentation,
- Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade.
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31 Oct 2014 9:00-12:00, location to be confirmed |
2XD26 Partial Exam
- It is necessary to bring a laptop that has an access to TUe network
- Do not forget to register on OWInfo for 2XD26 (partial exam grade) and 2ID26 (course grade).
- The results will be available by Nov 14.
- You can come and discuss your results on Nov 17, 10.00-12.00
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28 January 2014 13:30-16:30 |
Delayed group project presentations. This means the 1st attempt failed disregarding whether you used it or not. And you make the 2nd attempt.
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