Schedule and course plan

Period 3 Where and When Activity Reading Examination February 413.15-15.00B1 Lecture 1: Introduction, boolean retrieval, course practicalities Hedvig Kjellström, Johan Boye Manning Chapter 1, 2 February 710.15-12.00B1 Lecture 2: Term vocabulary, dictionaries and tolerant retrievalJohan Boye Manning Chapter 2, 3 February 1113.15-15.00B1 Lecture 3: Evaluation of search enginesJussi Karlgren Manning Chapter 8 February 1813.00-19.00Orange Computer hall session Oral examination of Assignment 1 in front of computer February 2110.15-12.00V1 (note) Lecture 4: Scoring, weighting, vector space modelHedvig Kjellström Manning Chapter 6, 7 March 413.15-15.00B1 Lecture 5: Retrieval of documents with hyperlinksJohan Boye, Hedvig Kjellström Manning Chapter 21, Avrachenkov Sections 1-2 March 710.15-12.00B1 Lecture 6: Evaluation IIJussi Karlgren Manning Chapter 9, NEW ARTICLE March 1813.15-15.00B1 Lecture 7: Probabilistic information retrieval, language modelsHedvig Kjellström Manning Chapter 11, 12 March 1815.00-19.00Gul Computer hall session Oral examination of Assignment 2 in front of computer March 2110.15-12.00B1 Lecture 8: Some useful additions to a search engine, Random IndexingViggo Kann Sahlgren Period 4 Where and When Activity Reading Examination April 115.00-19.00Orange Computer hall session Oral examination of Assignment 3 in front of computer April 813.15-15.00B1 Lecture 9: Guest lectures¶

Anders Friberg, KTH TITLE Abstract¶

Hercules Dalianis, SU TITLE Abstract¶

April 1513.15-15.00B1 Lecture 10: Guest lectures¶

Simon Stenström, Findwise TITLE Abstract¶

Magnus Rosell, FOI TITLE Abstract¶

April 2213.15-15.00B1 Lecture 11: Guest lecture ¶

Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Research Cambridge TITLE Abstract¶

April 2913.15-15.00B1 Lecture 12: Guest lecture May 1609.00-13.00Fantum, Lindstedtsv 24, floor 5 Project presentations Written report hand-inOral presentation in front of poster