Lectures

You can download the lectures here. We will try to upload lectures prior to their corresponding classes.

• Introduction
  tl;dr: Introduction
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 1 of MRS
• Boolean information retrieval and document preprocessing
  tl;dr: Boolean information retrieval and document preprocessing
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 1 & 2 of MRS
• Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval
  tl;dr: Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 3 of MRS
• Index Construction
  tl;dr: Index Construction
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 4 of MRS
• Index compression
  tl;dr: Index compression
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 5 of MRS
• Vector space model
  tl;dr: Vector space model
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 6 of MRS
• Scores in a complete search system
  tl;dr: Scores in a complete search system
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 7 of MRS
• Evaluation in information retrieval
  tl;dr: Evaluation in information retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 8 of MRS
• Relevance feedback and query expansion
  tl;dr: Relevance feedback and query expansion
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 9 of MRS
• Probabilistic Information Retrieval
  tl;dr: Probabilistic Information Retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 11 of MRS
• Language Models for Information Retrieval
  tl;dr: Language Models for Information Retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 12 of MRS
• Probabilistic text classification
  tl;dr: Probabilistic and vector space text classification
  [Probabilistic slides]
  

  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 13-15 of MRS
• Vector space text classification
  tl;dr: Probabilistic and vector space text classification
  [Vector space slides]
  

  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 13-15 of MRS
• Mid-term exam
  tl;dr: Mid-term exam
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• Vector space text classification
  tl;dr: Vector space text classification
  [slides]
  

  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 13-15 of MRS
• Text clustering
  tl;dr: Text clustering
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 16 & 17 of MRS
• Text clustering
  tl;dr: Text clustering
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 16 & 17 of MRS
• Text clustering
  tl;dr: Text clustering
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 16 & 17 of MRS
• Dimensionality reduction and feature selection
  tl;dr: Dimensionality reduction and feature selection
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 13 of MRS
• Latent Semantic Indexing
  tl;dr: Latent Semantic Indexing
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 18 of MRS
• Web crawling and search
  tl;dr: Web crawling and search
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 19 & 20 of MRS
• Web crawling and search
  tl;dr: Web crawling and search
  [slides]
  

  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapters 19 & 20 of MRS
• Link Analysis
  tl;dr: Link Analysis
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  Suggested Readings:

  • Chapter 21 of MRS
• Neural information retrieval
  tl;dr: Neural information retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • MC
• Neural information retrieval
  tl;dr: Neural information retrieval
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  Suggested Readings:

  • MC
• Retrieval Augmented Generation
  tl;dr: Retrieval Augmented Generation
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• Some IR applications
  tl;dr: Some IR applications
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