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Information Retrieval

Overview

Information retrieval (IR) deals with retrieving information efficiently from documents, web, multimedia and a lot more. This course covers the following topics:

  • Queries: Boolean, Phrase, Wildcard, Permuterm, Shingling, Jaccard, Cosine, tf-idf
  • Algorithms: Hashes, B-Trees, Edit distance, Soundex, LZW Compression, Porter Stemming
  • Indexing: Inverted, Positional, BSBI, SPMI, Distributed, Dynamic
  • Multimedia: Image, Audio, Video, Watermarking, Fingerprinting
  • Web: Searching, Crawling, Page Rank, SEO, Spam
  • Recommender Systems: Collaborative, Content-Based, Hybrid
  • Cross Language: Query Translation, Document Translation, Corpus & Knowledge based techniques

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Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites.

Textbooks

Title Author(s) Edition
An Introduction to Information Retrieval Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan & Hinrich Schütze 1st (2009)
Recommender Systems Handbook Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach & Bracha Shapira 2nd (2015)
Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler & Trevor Strohman 1st (2015)
Cross-Language Information Retrieval Jian-Yun Nie Morgan & Claypool 1st (2010)
Multimedia Information Retrieval Stefan Rüger Morgan & Claypool 1st (2010)
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines Stefan B¨uttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke & Gordon V. Cormack 1st (2010)
Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data Bing Liu 2nd (2011)

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