Information Retrieval Methods : Lecture material
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)
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