Information Retrieval
Code
12077
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. Basic techniques
3. Evaluation
4. Probabilistic retrieval
5. Language models
6. User feedback and query expansion
7. Link-based ranking
8. Information duplicates
9. Rank fusion methods
10. Indexing and distributed indexing
11. Efficient indexing
Bibliography
[1] 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/
[2] C. D. Manning, P. Raghavan and H. Schütze, "Introduction to Information Retrieval", Cambridge University Press, 2008. http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/