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Instructor: Pabitra Mitra (Room No. 310, CSE, pabitra@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in, Phone: 2356)

Textbooks
Introduction to Information Retrieval Manning, Raghavan and Schutze, Cambridge University Press, draft.
Modern Information Retrieval Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999.
A comprehensive survey by Ed Greengrass
Mining the Web, Soumen Charabarti, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002.

Additional Reading

Content   Term Projects   Resources   Useful Links  
Course Outline
Information retrieval covers the tasks of indexing, searching, and recalling data, particularly text or other unstructured forms. It has an important role to play in a large number of applications viz., digital libraries, office automation, internet and e-commerce. The aim of the course is to study theoretical aspects as well as implementation issues of classical and modern retrieval problems.

Evaluation Policy:
Endsem: 50%    Term Project: 30%  Midsem: 20%   

Indebted to Prof. Mandar Mitra's IR Page