Information Retrieval (Wintersemester 2012/2013)

Lecturer:

General Information

• Weekly Hours: 2
• Credits: 3
• Graded: yes
• Enrolment Deadline: 1.10.2012 - 31.10.2012
• Teaching Form: VU
• Enrolment Type: Compulsory Elective Module

Programs, Module Groups & Modules

Description

This lecture will highlight some of the main IR blocks: information theory, indexing, top-k retrieval, general retrieval models and evaluation, link analysis, and social search.

Requirements

The lecture is for Master students. In order to be an active participant in the lecture, we recommend a sufficient background in Database, Data Structures and Algorithms, Linear Algebra, and Probability Theory.

Literature

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze: Introduction to Information Retrieval

Soumen Chakrabarti: Mining the Web, Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data

Examination

• You are expected to show up in all sessions and tutorials. If you cannot attend for some reason, let us know per email beforehand.
• Present at least two solutions in the tutorials.

Dates

Neuer Raum für die Montagstermine, 13.30 Uhr: H-E.51 !

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