Semester: Spring 2025-26
Instructors: Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Debaditya Roy
Teaching Assistants: Debamalya Chakravorty, Yashwant Pravinrao Bangde
Class Schedule:
MON (11:00–11:55),
TUE (08:00–08:55),
TUE (09:00–09:55)
Classroom: NC-142
| Week | Dates | Topic / Activity | Links / Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5/1/2026, 6/1/2026 | Introduction to IR, Boolean Retrieval, Term Vocabulary & Postings List |
Introduction Boolean-IR |
| 2 | 12/1/2026, 13/1/2026 | Skip Pointers & Positional Index, Extent Lists & Result Set Size Estimation, Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval | Index-construction |
| 3 | 19/1/2026, 20/1/2026 | Scoring, Weighting and the Vector Space Model, Index Compression, Posting Compression | |
| 4 | 26/1/2026, 27/1/2026 | Evaluation (MAP, NDCG), Relevance Feedback, Probabilistic Information Retrieval | |
| 5 | 2/2/2026, 3/2/2026 | Language Models for IR, Text Classification | |
| 6 | 9/2/2026, 10/2/2026 | Recap | |
| 7 | 16/2/2026, 17/2/2026 | Recap | |
| 8 | 23/2/2026, 24/2/2026 | ||
| 9 | 2/3/2026, 3/3/2026 | Learning to Rank, PageRank, LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) | |
| 10 | 9/3/2026, 10/3/2026 | Text Summarization, BLEU, ROUGE, ROUGE-N, ROUGE-L, ROUGE-S, Pros and Cons, ROUGE vs BLEU | |
| 11 | 16/3/2026, 17/3/2026 | The Web as Corpus | |
| 12 | 23/3/2026, 24/3/2026 | Information Extraction | |
| 13 | 30/3/2026, 31/3/2026 | Relation Extraction (Graph IE) | |
| 14 | 6/4/2026, 7/4/2026 | Distant Supervision / Multi-modal IR | |
| 15 | 13/4/2026, 14/4/2026 | Recap | |
| 16 | 20/4/2026, 21/4/2026 | ||
| 17 | 27/4/2026, 28/4/2026 |