Course

Boolean Retrieval – The term vocabulary and postings lists – Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval – Index construction – Index compression – Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model – Evaluation in Information retrieval.

Relevance feedback and query expansion – XML retrieval – Probabilistic information retrieval – Text classification – Vector space classification – Clustering – Matrix decomposition and latent semantic indexing. Web search basics – Web crawling and indexes – Link analysis.

TEXT BOOK:

Manning C D., Raghavan Pand Schutze H., “Introduction to Information Retrieval”, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

REFERENCES:

1. R.Baeza-Yates and B. RibeiroNeto, “Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search”, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2011
2. David A.Grossman and OphirFrieder,”Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics”, Second Edition, Springer 2004.