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Information Retrieval (AD-603 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction

  • Introduction - History of IR- Components of IR - Issues
  • Open source Search engine Frameworks
  • The Impact of the web on IR
  • The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in IR
  • IR Versus Web Search - Components of a search engine, characterizing the web
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Unit 2

Boolean and Vector space retrieval models

  • Boolean and Vector space retrieval models
  • Term weighting - TF-IDF weighting
  • cosine similarity
  • Pre-processing
  • Inverted indices - efficient processing with sparse vectors
  • Language Model based IR - Probabilistic IR
  • Latent Semantic indexing
  • Relevance feedback and query expansion
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Unit 3

Web search overview

  • Web search overview, web structure the user paid placement search engine optimization
  • Web Search Architectures - crawling - meta-crawlers, Focused Crawling
  • web indexes - Near duplicate detection
  • Index Compression
  • XML retrieval
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Unit 4

Link Analysis

  • Link Analysis -hubs and authorities
  • Page Rank and HITS algorithms
  • Relevance Scoring and ranking for Web - Similarity
  • Hadoop & Map Reduce
  • Evaluation - Personalized search
  • Collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation of documents And products
  • handling invisible Web - Snippet generation, Summarization
  • Question Answering, Cross-Lingual Retrieval
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Unit 5

Information filtering and Text Mining

  • Information filtering: organization and relevance feedback
  • Text Mining- Text classification and clustering
  • Categorization algorithms, naive Bayes, decision trees and nearest neighbor
  • Clustering algorithms: agglomerative clustering, k-means, expectation maximization (EM)

Reference Books

  • Introduction to Information Retrieval — C. Manning, P. Raghvan, H Schutze — Cambridge University Press
  • Modern Information Retrieval The Concepts and Technology behind Search — Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto — ACM Press Books
  • Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice — Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman — Addison Wesley
  • An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation — Mark Levene — Wiley
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