Course Schedule
Aug 26
Introduction to search: Exact-match retrieval (pdf)
Readings: Ch 5.1
Aug 28
Introduction to search: DAAT, BM25, query operators (pdf)
Readings: Ch 1, Ch 11.4.3
Sep 1
Sep 2
Introduction to search: QryEval (pdf)
Readings:Ch 2.4.2
Sep 3
Optional:
Homework support session
(pdf)
5:00-6:30, GHC 6115
Readings: HW1 page, HW1 Design Guide,
Sep 4
Offline evaluation
(pdf),
Software integrity requirements
(pdf)
Readings: Ch 8-8.5
Sep 9
Best-match retrieval: VSM, language models (pdf)
Readings: Ch 6.2-6.4.2, Ch 12.2-12.4
Sep 11
Document representation (pdf)
Readings: Ch 2 - 2.2
Sep 15
HW1 due, HW2 out
Sep 16
Query structure: Relevance and pseudo relevance feedback (pdf)
Readings: Ch 9 - 9.2.2
Sep 18
Index creation (pdf)
Readings: Ch 4-4.5, Ch 5.3-5.3.1, Ch 2.3, Ch 7.1.3
Sep 23
Large-scale indexes
Readings:
Sep 25
Feature-based ranking models
Readings: Li, 2011
Sep 29
HW2 due, HW3 out
Sep 30
Feature-based ranking models, Authority metrics
Readings: Ch 21 - 21.2
Oct 2
Recommender systems: Introduction and basic algorithms
Readings: Personalized Machine Learning (Ch 4), Fairness in Information Access Systems (Ch 2)
Oct 7
Recommender systems: Feature-based models
Readings: Personalized Machine Learning (Ch 5), Covington, et al., 2016
Oct 9
Midterm exam
Readings: Sample Midterm, additional questions
Oct 21
Neural ranking models: Introduction
Readings:
Oct 25
Neural ranking models: BERT reranking
Readings: Dai & Callan, 2019a
Oct 27
HW3 due, HW4 out
Oct 28
Neural ranking models: Sparse models
Readings: Dai & Callan, 2019b
Oct 30
Neural ranking models: Dense models
Readings: Karpukhin, et al., 2020
Nov 6
Neural ranking models: Large language models
Readings:
Nov 10
HW4 due, HW5 out
Nov 11
Neural ranking models: Retrieval augmented generation
Readings: Gao, et al., 2023
Nov 13
Diversification: measurement
Readings:
Nov 18
Diversification: optimization
Readings: Dang & Croft, 2012, Santos, et al., 2010
Nov 20
Personalization
Readings: Eickhoff et al, 2014, Bennett et al, 2012
Nov 24
HW5 due
Nov 25
Online evaluation
Readings: Kelly and Teevan, 2003, Jiang et al., 2014
Dec 2
Fairness: measurement
Readings:
Dec 4
Final exam
Readings: Sample Final