Information Retrieval (CS60092)
Instructor: Sourangshu Bhattacharya
TAs : PIYUSH BALWANI, NITYA TANDON, Mayank Bhasin
Class Schedule: WED(11:00-11:55) , THURS(12:00-12:55) , FRI(08:00-08:55)
Classroom: CSE-119
Website: http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sourangshu/cs60092_2016a.html
Announcements:
- Moodle group created. Please join here.
- First Meeting: 21th July , Thursday, 12:00 noon
Content:
Syllabus:
We will mostly follow the standard syllabus. See here or here, with a few latest topics.
Textbooks:
- Manning, Christopher D., Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze. Introduction to information retrieval, Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2008.
Course Material:
- Introduction : slides
- Boolean retrieval : slides
- Tokenization and normalization : slides
- Tolerant retrieval : slides
- Index contruction : slides
- Index compression : slides
- Ranking and Vector space models : slides
- Approximate scoring and system design : slides
- Evaluation of IR systems : slides
- Probabilistic IR and Relevance feedback : slides
- Language Models for IR : slides
- Text categorization, k-NN, Naive Bayes, etc : slides
- SVM and Learning to rank : slides. Also covered from:
- Optimizing Search Engines using Clickthrough Data. Thorsten Joachims. KDD 2002.
- A Support Vector Method for Optimizing Average Precision. Yisong Yue, Thomas Finley, Filip Radlinski, Thorsten Joachims. SIGIR 2007.
- Cutting-Plane Training of Structural SVMs. Thorsten Joachims, Thomas Finley, and Chun-Nam John Yu. Machine Learning Journal, 2009.
- Link Analysis : slides
Assignments:
To submit solutions to assignments: join the IR course on CSE moodle