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CS8080- INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES

Regulation 2017

Syllabus

LTPC

3003

OBJECTIVES:

• To understand the basics of Information Retrieval.

• To understand machine learning techniques for text classification and clustering.

• To understand various search engine system operations.

• To learn different techniques of recommender system.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Information Retrieval – Early Developments – The IR Problem – The Users Task – Information versus
Data Retrieval – The IR System – The Software Architecture of the IR System – The Retrieval and
Ranking Processes – The Web – The e-Publishing Era – How the web changed Search – Practical Issues
on the Web – How People Search – Search Interfaces Today – Visualization in Search Interfaces.

UNIT II MODELING AND RETRIEVAL EVALUATION 9

Basic IR Models – Boolean Model – TF-IDF (Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency) Weighting
– Vector Model – Probabilistic Model – Latent Semantic Indexing Model – Neural Network Model –
Retrieval Evaluation – Retrieval Metrics – Precision and Recall – Reference Collection – User-based
Evaluation – Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion – Explicit Relevance Feedback.

UNIT III TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING 9

A Characterization of Text Classification – Unsupervised Algorithms: Clustering – Naïve Text


Classification – Supervised Algorithms – Decision Tree – k-NN Classifier – SVM Classifier – Feature
Selection or Dimensionality Reduction – Evaluation metrics – Accuracy and Error – Organizing the
classes – Indexing and Searching – Inverted Indexes – Sequential Searching – Multi-dimensional
Indexing.

UNIT IV WEB RETRIEVAL AND WEB CRAWLING 9

The Web – Search Engine Architectures – Cluster based Architecture – Distributed Architectures –
Search Engine Ranking – Link based Ranking – Simple Ranking Functions – Learning to Rank –
Evaluations — Search Engine Ranking – Search Engine User Interaction – Browsing – Applications of a
Web Crawler – Taxonomy – Architecture and Implementation – Scheduling Algorithms – Evaluation.

UNIT V RECOMMENDER SYSTEM 9


Recommender Systems Functions – Data and Knowledge Sources – Recommendation Techniques –
Basics of Content-based Recommender Systems – High Level Architecture – Advantages and Drawbacks
of Content-based Filtering – Collaborative Filtering – Matrix factorization models – Neighborhood
models.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

OUTCOMES:

Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to:

• Use an open source search engine framework and explore its capabilities

• Apply appropriate method of classification or clustering.

• Design and implement innovative features in a search engine.

• Design and implement a recommender system.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, ―Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts
and Technology behind Search, Second Edition, ACM Press Books, 2011.

2. Ricci, F, Rokach, L. Shapira, B.Kantor, ―Recommender Systems Handbook, First Edition, 2011.

REFERENCES:

1. C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze, ―Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge


University Press, 2008.

2. Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack, ―Information Retrieval:


Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, The MIT Press, 2010.

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