This course will teach basic concepts, tools & techniques in the field of Information Retrieval (IR) & Search. It will cover theoretical foundations, implementation aspects, issues and state-of-the-art in the area of information retrieval, representation, organization, indexing and categorization. The course will cover topics such as retrieval models, inverted index construction, performance evaluation in information retrieval, search engine architecture, crawling, indexing, ranking, text categorization & clustering. In the end, trends and research issues will also be discussed.
Discuss and analyze advantages and disadvanatges of fundamental IR models such as vector space models, language models etc.
Analyze and evaluate search engine architectures and comments on their advantages and disadvantages.
Discuss and implement techniques for the processing and evaluating information retrieval systems.