Information Retrieval – Early Developments – The IR Problem – The User‘s Task – Information versus Data Retrieval - The IR System – The Software Architecture of the IR System – The Retrieval and Ranking Processes - The Web – The e-Publishing Era – How the web changed Search – Practical Issues on the Web – How People Search – Search Interfaces Today – Visualization in Search Interfaces
Basic IR Models - Boolean Model - TF-IDF (Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency) Weighting - Vector Model – Probabilistic Model – Latent Semantic Indexing Model – Neural Network Model – Retrieval Evaluation – Retrieval Metrics – Precision and Recall – Reference Collection – User-based Evaluation – Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion – Explicit Relevance Feedback.
A Characterization of Text Classification – Unsupervised Algorithms: Clustering – Naïve Text Classification – Supervised Algorithms – Decision Tree – k-NN Classifier – SVM Classifier – Feature Selection or Dimensionality Reduction – Evaluation metrics – Accuracy and Error – Organizing the classes – Indexing and Searching – Inverted Indexes – Sequential Searching – Multi-dimensional Indexing
The Web – Search Engine Architectures – Cluster based Architecture – Distributed Architectures – Search Engine Ranking – Link based Ranking – Simple Ranking Functions – Learning to Rank – Evaluations -- Search Engine Ranking – Search Engine User Interaction – Browsing – Applications of a Web Crawler – Taxonomy – Architecture and Implementation – Scheduling Algorithms – Evaluation
IR applications-Information Extraction-Question answering- Opinion summarization- General Applications-Digital libraries-Information filtering-Media search-Search engines—Domain specific applications-Expert search finding-Geographic information retrieval- Case study on information retrieval methods in Text Mining.
Reference Book:
1.C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze, ―Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press, 2008 2.Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack, ―Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, The MIT Press, 2010. 3.Jaime Spooner†Modern Information Retrieval “ , Excelic Press, 2019
Text Book:
1.Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, ―Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search, Second Edition, ACM Press Books, 2011. 2.Ricci, F, Rokach, L. Shapira, B.Kantor, ―Recommender Systems Handbook‖, First Edition, 2011
