Date, Time, and Room |
Lecture Title and
Contents |
Introduction to IR book (draft available
online)
|
6 Sep 2012 Thursday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
- Basic IR terminology, ideas, architecture
- Course overview, practicalities
- Overview of possible group project assignments
|
Ch. 1 |
7 Sep 2012 Friday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
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)
|
11 Sep 2012 Tuesday 15:45-–17:30 Pav. U.46 |
Lecture 3: Vector space retrieval
- From Boolean to vector space retrieval
- Latent-Concept Models
- Relevance feedback and query expansion
|
Ch. 6,
Ch. 18,
Ch. 9
|
13 Sep 2012 Thursday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 4: Into to ML Module and Classification
- Naive Bayes, Nearest Neighbour, Decision tree learning
- Ensemble learning
- Evaluation of classification
|
Ch. 13,
Ch. 14, &
Ch. 15
(or IDM: Ch. 4)
|
14 Sep 2012 Friday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
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
|
18 Sep 2012 Tuesday 15:45-–17:30 Pav. U.46 |
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 |
20 Sep 2012 Thursday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 7: Pattern mining
- Association analysis: Itemset mining, Apriori principle,
- Web mining and Log mining context
- Application in IR and AS
|
IDM: Ch. 6 |
21 Sep 2012 Friday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 8: Machine learning for user modelling
- Basic ideas and Current state of the art
- Adaptive news access as an example
- Challenges being tackled in research community
|
Links to reading material |
25, 27, and 28 September 2012
|
No 2ID25 lectures this week Self study and group project work.
- Form groups; discuss the motivation, goals and scope of your group project (if you have not done yet during the first weeks in September).
- Write down your group project description and upload it to Sakai/Assignments. Send a copy to 2ID25.Teachers@gmail.com if you cannot see your file after uploading. Template and guidelines are in Sakai.
- Approach the teacher during a lecture break or come to MF7.099 and pick a time slot to discuss your group project idea and/or progress.
|
28 Sep 2012 |
Deadline: Submit your group project proposal |
2 Oct 2012 Tuesday 15:45-–17:30 Pav. U.46 |
Lecture 9: Probabilistic IR and IR Evaluation
|
4 Oct 2012 Thursday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 10: Information retrieval on the Web
- Web spam, SEO
- Google’s Pagerank, Hub and authorities (HITS)
- Trends in IR on the Web
|
Ch. 19,
Ch. 21 |
5 Oct 2012 Friday 10:45 - 12:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 11: MultiMedia retrieval
- Automatic content based analysis
- GEMINI and time-series mining view
- Semantic gap
|
Handouts and Introduction to the Multimedia Retrieval book |
9 Oct 2012 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 Pav. B2 |
Lecture 12: Past, Present and Future of IR: Closing Lecture
- Brief summary of the course and not covered topics
- Advanced R&D issues in IR
- Q&A session
|
Links to reading material |
16 Oct 2012 Tuesday 15:45 - 17:30 Pav. B2 |
QA session:
- Come with questions if any (do the trial exam by Monday)
- Info on project poster and demo presentation, project deliverables
- Q&A session
|
Links to reading material |
23-24 Oct 2012 |
Deadline: Submit your group project deliverables
- 23 Oct 2012, 17.00 - Deadline for those presenting on Oct 25th, and 24 Oct 2012, 17.00 - if presenting on Oct 26th.
- Detailed instructions can be found in Sakai and discussed
- Important: group report, besides overall architecture and achievements should contain ML part and IR part for each group member.
|
25 Oct 2012 Thursday 10:40-–12:40 AUD 15 |
Group project presentations: 1st session
- Demo plus poster presentation,
- Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade
|
26 Oct 2012 Friday 10:40-–12:40 AUD 10 |
Group project presentations: 2nd session
- Demo plus poster presentation,
- Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade
|
2 Nov 2012 14:00-17:00, location to be confirmed |
2YD25 Partial Exam
- It is necessary to bring a laptop that has an access to TUe network
- Do not forget to register on OWInfo for 2YD25.
- The results will be available by Nov 15.
- You can come and discuss your results on Nov 19, 10.00-12.00
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January 2013 |
Delayed group project presentations
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