CS 246: Course Schedule

Please note that this is the tentative schedule for the class and significant changes may be made over time depending on the class progress and student need. Please come back to this page in order to see the most up-to-date schedule.

#	Topics	Slides
	Introduction	Introduction
	Web Characteristics	Web Characteristics
	Web Characteristics Search-Engine Scale	Web Characteristics Search-Engine Scale
	Basic Information Retrieval	Basic Information Retrieval
	Inverted Index	Inverted Index
	VSM and TFIDF	VSM and TFIDF
	Evaluating Ranking Intro to Probabilistic Model	Evaluating Ranking Intro to Probabilistic Model
	Query-Likelihood Probabilistic Model	Query-Likelihood Probabilistic Model
	PageRank	PageRank
	Hits Vectors and Matrices	Hits Vectors and Matrices
	Linear Transformation	Linear Transformation
	SVD LSI	SVD LSI
	LDA Model	LDA Model
	LDA Inference	LDA Inference
	Learning To Rank Relevance Feedback	Learning To Rank Relevance Feedback
	Leveraging User Feedback Web Crawling	Leveraging User Feedback Web Crawling
	Refresh Policy	Refresh Policy