TTDS: Schedule | Open Course Materials

Week	Lecture	Lab	Coursework	Readings
1	1 - Introduction	Lab 0	-	IR in Practice Chapters 1 & 2
	2 - Definitions
2	3 - Laws	Lab 1	-	Intro to IR Chapter 2 --> 2.2.4 IR in Practice Chapter 4 Zipf’s law, Vsouce Benford’s law, Numberphile
	4 - Preprocessing
3	5 - Indexing	Lab 2	-	Intro to IR Chapters 1, 2.4 and 3.1-3.4 IR in Practice chapter 5
	6 - Indexing 2
4	7 - Ranked Retrieval	Lab 3	CW1	Intro to IR Chapters 6.2 to 6.4 and 12 IR in Practice Chapter 7 Robertson, Stephen E., et al. "Okapi at TREC-3." J. Ponte and W. B. Croft. "A language modeling approach to information retrieval."
	8 - Ranked Retrieval 2
5	9 - Evaluation	-		Intro to IR Chapters 8 IR in Practice Chapter 8 C Buckley and E. M. Voorhees. "Retrieval Evaluation with Incomplete Information."
	10 - Evaluation 2
6	11 - QE	Lab 5		Intro to IR Chapters 9 IR in Practice Chapter 6.2, 6.3 Magdy W. and G. J. F. Jones. A Study on Query Expansion Methods for Patent Retrieval

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