CS242: Information Retrieval & Web Search

Grading

25% quizzes (worst 2 quizzes will be discarded, MSOL students will have until the weekend to take the quiz; others will take the quiz during the lecture time)

25% midterm

15% assignment

35% project

Class overview

Information Retrieval (IR) principles including indexing and searching document collections, Web search and advanced topics like deep learning and search in social networks.

Some of the topics which will be tentatively presented are:

• Vector Model

• Language Models

• IR evaluation methods

• Web search

• MapReduce

• Social networks search

• Word embeddings, deep learning in IR

Assignment & project late submissions, submitted before assignments or projects are graded, will receive a 20% score reduction.