Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

Module Tutor: Dell Zhang
Time: Tuesday evenings 6pm - 9pm (Spring Term)
Venue: Online (Blackboard Collaborate) on Moodle
Code: COIY064H7
Teaching Assistant: Ehshan Veerabangsa (e.veerabangsa@bbk.ac.uk) - Coursework Marking & Asynchronous Support

Textbook

	Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin. *Speech and Language Processing*, 2nd edition, Pearson, 2008. Companion Website (3rd edition draft)
	Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze. *Introduction to Information Retrieval*. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Companion Website

Syllabus

Week	Date	Session 1	Session 2
1	11/01/2022	[IIR-00] [SLP-01] Motivation [slides]	[IIR-01] Boolean Retrieval [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]
2	18/01/2022	[IIR-02] The Term Vocabulary and Postings Lists [slides]	[SLP-02] [SLP-08a] Regular Expressions, Text Normalization, Sequence Labeling [slides] [slides]
3	25/01/2022	[IIR-03] Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	[SLP-02] Edit Distance [slides]
4	01/02/2022	[IIR-05] Index Compression [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	[IIR-06] Scoring, Term Weighting, and the Vector Space Model [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s] [example]
5	08/02/2022	[IIR-08] Evaluation in Information Retrieval [slides] [example]	[IIR-11] Probabilistic Information Retrieval [slides] [example]
6	15/02/2022	Reading Week: No Lecture for All Students. Please find below the materials to read.
6	15/02/2022	[SLP-20a] Lexicons for Sentiment, Affect, and Connotation (1/2) [slides]	[SLP-24] Chatbots and Dialogue Systems [slides]
--	20/02/2022	Coursework Part 1 - Submission Deadline
7	22/02/2022	[IIR-12] Language Models for Information Retrieval [slides] [example]	[SLP-03a] Language Modeling with N-Grams [slides]
8	01/03/2022	[SLP-B] Spelling Correction and the Noisy Channel [slides]	[IIR-13] [SLP-04] Text Classification, Naive Bayes, and Sentiment Analysis [slides] [slides] [slides] [example]
9	08/03/2022	[IIR-14] Vector Space Classification [slides] [demo] [example]	[SLP-05] Logistic Regression [slides]
10	15/03/2022	[IIR-18] Matrix Decompositions and Latent Semantic Indexing [slides] [article]	[SLP-06] Vector Semantics [slides] [slides] [slides]
11	22/03/2022	[SLP-07] Neural Nets and Neural Language Models [slides]	[SLP-09] Deep Learning Architectures for Sequence Processing [slides]
--	03/04/2022	Coursework Part 2 - Submission Deadline
--	Tuesday 03/05/2022 6pm - 9pm	Revision Lecture [slides] Past Exam Paper 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21
--	----------	[IIR-04] Index Construction [slides]	[IIR-07] Computing Scores in a Complete Search System [slides]
--	----------	[IIR-09] Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion [slides]	[IIR-10] XML Retrieval [slides]
--	----------	[IIR-16] [IIR-07.1.6] Flat Clustering [slides] [demo] [example]	[IIR-17] Hierarchical Clustering [slides] [example]
--	----------	[IIR-15] Support Vector Machines & Machine Learning on Documents [slides]	[IIR-19.6] Near-Duplicates and Shingling [slides] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]
--	----------	[Gusfield1997] Suffix Trees [slides] [example]	[CACM12-04-blei] Probabilistic Topic Models [slides]

Assessment

Coursework: 20%
Part 1 [Reassessment]
Normal deadline: Fri 05/08/2022 13:00
Cut-off deadline: Fri 19/08/2022 13:00
Part 2 [Reassessment]
Normal deadline: Fri 05/08/2022 13:00
Cut-off deadline: Fri 19/08/2022 13:00
Please submit your solutions as a PDF file through Moodle.