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AL-503 (A) · Information Retrieval/Official Syllabus

Information Retrieval (AL-503 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

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
  • Preprocessing
  • 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
  • Searching and Ranking
  • 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

  • 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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