Web Search
Code
11561
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Informática
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
João Miguel da Costa Magalhães, Nuno Manuel Robalo Correia
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Knowledge
- Learn the concept of information relevance.
- Analyze Web and multimedia data.
- Learn how to rank information by relevance.
- Understand evaluation protocols.
Know-how
- Implement information retrieval models.
- Ability to adapt and improve components of a search engine.
- Deploy search engines with large-scale datasets.
- Design evaluation protocols and evaluate search engines.
Soft-Skills
- Select the right IR techniques for particular problems.
- Design information retrieval systems.
- Ability to do critical thinking about retrieval results.
Subject matter
1. Introduction
2. Web Search
3. Basic retrieval models
4. Link-based ranking
5. Indexing
6. Probabilistic retrieval
7. Language models
8. User feedback and query expansion
9. Evaluation
10. Learning-to-rank
11. Distributed retrieval
12. Image retrieval
13. High-dimensional data indexing
Bibliography
- C. D. Manning, P. Raghavan and H. Schütze, "Introduction to Information Retrieval", Cambridge University Press, 2008. http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
- S. Büttcher. C. L. A. Clarke, G. V. Cormack, "Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines", The MIT Press, 2010. http://www.ir.uwaterloo.ca/book/
- Rick Szeliski , "Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications". Springer, 2013. http://szeliski.org/Book/