Literature

We use mainly the book "Introduction to Information Retrieval" of Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, that you can find online and as PDF here. 

Contact

In case you have questions, please contact Dr. Elena Demidova. 

Lectures and Dates

•  Boolean retrieval    print version (17.10.2013)
•  The term vocabulary & postings lists    print version (24.10.2013) 
•  Scoring, term weighting, the vector space model    print version (31.10.2013)
•  Dictionaries & tolerant retrieval    print version (07.11.2013)
•  Evaluation & result summaries    print version (14.11.2013)
•  Relevance feedback & query expansion    print version (21.11.2013)
•  XML retrieval (28.11.2013)
•  Text classification & Naive Bayes    print version (05.12.2013)
•  Flat clustering    print version (12.12.2013) K-means Demo
•  Web search basics    print version (19.12.2013) Google Adwords Demo
•  Size estimation & duplicate detection    print version (09.01.2014) 
•  Crawling  print version (16.01.2014) 
• Link analysis    print version (23.01.2014)
• Q&A (30.01.2014)

Exercises

• Exercise 1 (24.10.2013)
• Exercise 2 (31.10.2013)
• Exercise 3 (07.11.2013) notes to ex 3
• Exercise 4 (14.11.2013)
• Exercise 5 (21.11.2013)
• Exercise 6 (28.11.2013)
• Exercise 7 (12.12.2013)
• Exercise 8 (19.12.2013)
• Midterm test
• Exercise 9 (09.01.2014) 
• Exercise 10 (16.01.2014) iCrawl announcement
  
• Exercise 11 (23.01.2014) notes to ex 11
• Q&A (30.01.2014)

 

Program code

 To run the code you shoud have a running Eclipse IDE as well as the IR library Lucene 4.5.x (download).