Week 1

• Introduction, Boolean retrieval (Chapter 1)
• Term vocabulary and postings lists  (Chapter 2)
• Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval (Chapter 3)

Week 2

• Vector space model, and scoring, weighting and ranking (Sections 6.2-6.4.3)
• More about scoring and weighting, and a complete search system (Sections 6.1, 6.4.4 and 7.1-7.2)

Week 3

• Evaluation in information retrieval (Chapter 8)
• Relevance feedback and query expansion (Chapter 9)

Week 4

• Probabilistic retrieval (Chapter 11)
• Language models (Chapter 12)

Week 5

• Web search basics (Chapter 19, not Section 19.5)
• Web size and Crawling (Section 19.5, Chapter 20, not Section 20.4)

Week 6

• Connectivity server and Link analysis (Section 20.4, Chapter 21)
• XML retrieval and summary (Chapter 10)