Information Retrieval

(CS60080)

First lecture: January 3, 2007
There will be no class on the week of January 8 as the instructor will be on leave.
The next class will be held on Jan 15, 2007.
Place Time
CS107
  • Monday: 7:30 to 9:25
  • Tueesday: 11:30 to 12:25
  • Wednesday: 10:30 to 11:25

Instructor: Sudeshna Sarkar

Teaching Assistants
Jayanta Mandal
B Damaraju

Textbooks
Introduction to Information Retrieval Manning, Raghavan and Schutze, Cambridge University Press, draft.
Modern Information Retrieval Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley, 1999.
A comprehensive survey by Ed Greengrass
Mining the Web, Soumen Charabarti, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2002.

Additional Reading

Course Outline

Information retrieval covers the tasks of indexing, searching, and recalling data, particularly text or other unstructured forms. It has an important role to play in a large number of applications viz., digital libraries, office automation, internet and e-commerce. The aim of the course is to study theoretical aspects as well as implementation issues of classical and modern retrieval problems.
Detailed Content

Assignment 1 --- Due date: 25th Feb, 2007.

Assignment 2 --- Due date: 12th Apr, 2007.

Resources
Releated courses with useful resources

CS276A, Stanford University
CS371R, Information Retrieval & web Search, Raymond Mooney
Web Search and Mining, Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay
Information retrieval, mining and integration on the Internet, Subbarao Kambhampati
Information Organization and Retrieval (Marti Hearst at Berkeley)


Indebted to Pabitra Mitra's IR Page