Information Recovery Systems
Indexing: Inverted files and inverted lists, text compression, other types of indexes. Modeling: IR models, classic IR models, alternative algebraic models, alternative probabilistic models, inference networks. Recovery Assessment: Accuracy and recall, reference collections. Queries: Logical queries, queries ordered by relevance, vocabulary access structures, sequential search in the vocabulary, exact and approximate search. Information Systems for the Web: Search engines, indexing, queries, interfaces. Folksonomies and social media recovery strategies.
Basic Information
Workload
60 hours
Mandatory:
- Baeza-Yates, R., & Ribeiro-Neto, B. (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley.
- Croft, W. B., Metzler, D., & Strohman, T. (2009). Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice (1 ed.). Addison Wesley.
- Ingwersen, P., & Järvelin, K. (2005). The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Springer.
- Manning, C. D., Raghavan, P., & Schütze, H. (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press.