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Information Retrieval -Organization of the course. Jian -Yun Nie. Goals of this course: Knowledge and skills in IR. Learn how IR systems and search engines work Main aspects of IR Main approaches Develop research skills Critical reading Creative thinking Rigorous testing and analysis
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Information Retrieval -Organization of the course Jian-Yun Nie
Goals of this course:Knowledge and skills in IR • Learn how IR systems and search engines work • Main aspects of IR • Main approaches • Develop research skills • Critical reading • Creative thinking • Rigorous testing and analysis • Communication skills • Discussions • IR experiments • Paperreading • Reports
schedule Week Topics Assignments 1 Introduction 2 Indexing process 3 Traditional models Boolean, Vector space, Probabilistic models Testing the existing models (20%) • System evaluation • Language models Implementing a simple IR system (20%) 6 Integrating term relations Query expansion, query suggestion, … 7 Integrating term dependencies • LSA/LDA Survey/extension to existing methods (20%) 9 Learning to rank • CLIR 11 Web IR 12 Conclusions
references • Some books • W.BruceCroft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman. 2009. SearchEngines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Pearson Education • Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, and Stefan BüttcherInformation Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines. MIT Press, 2010. • Christopher D. Manning, PrabhakarRaghavan and Hinrich, 2008.Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge UniversityPress. • Several books in book series (to bedistributed) • Journals • ACM-TOIS • Information Processing and Management • Information Retrieval Journal • JASIST • Researchpapers • To bedistributed
Contact • Email: nie@iro.umontreal.ca • Office: 2241 André-Aisenstadt