In the following table, the default readings refer to the Manning et al. text. So "Ch. 4" means Chapter 4 in Introduction to Information Retrieval. The information extraction (IE) material will be from Jurafsky and Martin; the opinion and sentiment readings will be from Pang and Lee.
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| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Assignment |
| 1 | Aug. 23 | Course Introduction | Ch. 1 | |
| Aug. 25 | Indexing, terms and doc processing | Chs. 1 and 2 | ||
| 2 | Aug. 30 | Vocabulary processing | Ch. 3 | |
| Sept. 1 | Realistic index construction | Ch. 4 | ||
| 3 | Sept. 6 | Vector space model | Ch. 6 | |
| Sept. 8 | Efficient Scoring | Ch. 7 | ||
| 4 | Sept. 13 | Evaluation in IR | Ch. 8 | |
| Sept. 15 | Relevance feedback | Ch. 9 | ||
| 5 | Sept. 20 | Probabilistic Models | Ch. 12 | |
| Sept. 22 | cont. | |||
| 6 | Sept. 27 | Quiz 1 | ||
| Sept. 29 | Text classification: Naive Bayes | Ch. 13 | ||
| 7 | Oct. 4 | k-NN Classification | Ch. 14 | |
| Oct. 6 | Machine Learning | Ch. 15 | ||
| 8 | Oct. 11 | cont. | ||
| Oct. 13 | Document Clustering | Ch. 16 | ||
| 9 | Oct. 18 | Hierarchical Clustering | Ch. 17 | |
| Oct. 20 | Unsupervised Bayesian Models | paper to read | ||
| 10 | Oct. 25 | cont. | ||
| Oct. 27 | Web Crawling | Ch. 20 | ||
| 11 | Nov. 1 | Link Analysis | Ch. 21 | |
| Nov. 3 | Learning to Rank |
Ch 15; Sec 15.4 |
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| 12 | Nov. 8 | Information extraction | Information Extraction |
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| Nov. 10 | Opinion/Sentiment | P&L pgs 1-23 |
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| 13 | Nov. 15 | cont. | P&L pgs. 23-60 |
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| Nov. 17 | Quiz 2 | |||
| 14 | Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Nov. 24 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 15 | Nov. 29 | Social network analysis | Kleinberg (2008) |
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| Dec. 1 | cont. | |||
| 16 | Dec. 6 | Project presentations | ||
| Dec. 8 | Project presentations |