Information Retrieval

Overview

Information retrieval (IR) deals with retrieving information efficiently from documents, web, multimedia and a lot more. This course covers the following topics:

• Queries: Boolean, Phrase, Wildcard, Permuterm, Shingling, Jaccard, Cosine, tf-idf

• Algorithms: Hashes, B-Trees, Edit distance, Soundex, LZW Compression, Porter Stemming

• Indexing: Inverted, Positional, BSBI, SPMI, Distributed, Dynamic

• Multimedia: Image, Audio, Video, Watermarking, Fingerprinting

• Web: Searching, Crawling, Page Rank, SEO, Spam

• Recommender Systems: Collaborative, Content-Based, Hybrid

• Cross Language: Query Translation, Document Translation, Corpus & Knowledge based techniques

Navigation

• Prerequisites

• Textbooks

• Videos

• Websites

Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites.

Textbooks

Title	Author(s)	Edition
An Introduction to Information Retrieval	Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan & Hinrich Schütze	1st (2009)
Recommender Systems Handbook	Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach & Bracha Shapira	2nd (2015)
Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice	W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler & Trevor Strohman	1st (2015)
Cross-Language Information Retrieval	Jian-Yun Nie Morgan & Claypool	1st (2010)
Multimedia Information Retrieval	Stefan Rüger Morgan & Claypool	1st (2010)
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines	Stefan B¨uttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke & Gordon V. Cormack	1st (2010)
Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data	Bing Liu	2nd (2011)

Videos

• IR Course, Simeon

• IR Course, itechnica

• Edit Distance, Gaurav Sen

• How Shazam Works, Real Engineering

• tf-idf, RevMachineLearning

• Stemming, Stanford

• Recommender Systems, CS50

• Content Based Recommendations, Stanford

• Collaborative Filtering, Stanford

Websites

• Image Detection: Watermarking vs. Fingerprinting, Jonathan Bailey

• What is image hashing used for?, Stack Overflow

• What is audio fingerprinting?, Dan Gravell

• Understanding basics of Recommendation Engines, Analytics Vidhya