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IRT SYLLABUS

The document outlines the course structure for 'Information Retrieval Techniques' (CS8080), including prerequisites, objectives, course outcomes, and a detailed syllabus divided into five units covering topics such as information retrieval basics, modeling and evaluation, text classification, web retrieval, and recommender systems. It also lists required textbooks and reference materials. The course aims to equip students with practical skills in search engine frameworks, classification methods, and recommender system design.

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IRT SYLLABUS

The document outlines the course structure for 'Information Retrieval Techniques' (CS8080), including prerequisites, objectives, course outcomes, and a detailed syllabus divided into five units covering topics such as information retrieval basics, modeling and evaluation, text classification, web retrieval, and recommender systems. It also lists required textbooks and reference materials. The course aims to equip students with practical skills in search engine frameworks, classification methods, and recommender system design.

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Subject Lectures Tutorial Practical

Subject Name
Code (Periods) (Periods) (Periods)

INFORMATION
CS8080 3 0 0
RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES
PREREQUISITE: Students should be familiar with object oriented programming, simple data
structures and text processing.

Course Objectives :
● To understand the basics of Information Retrieval.
● To understand machine learning techniques for text classification and clustering.
● To understand various search engine system operations.
● To learn different techniques of recommender system.

COs Course Outcome

C410.1 Use an open source search engine framework and explore its capabilities

C410.2 Apply the various information modeling and metrics

C410.3 Apply appropriate method of classification or clustering.

C410.4 Design and implement innovative features in a search engine.

C410.5 Demonstrate the working of web retrieval and web crawling

C410.6 Design and implement a recommender system.

Syllabus :
UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Information Retrieval – Early Developments – The IR Problem – The User‘s Task – Information versus
Data Retrieval - The IR System – The Software Architecture of the IR System – The Retrieval and
Ranking Processes - The Web – The e-Publishing Era – How the web changed Search – Practical Issues
on the Web – How People Search – Search Interfaces Today – Visualization in Search Interfaces.
UNIT II MODELING AND RETRIEVAL EVALUATION 9
Basic IR Models - Boolean Model - TF-IDF (Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency) Weighting
- Vector Model – Probabilistic Model – Latent Semantic Indexing Model – Neural Network Model –
Retrieval Evaluation – Retrieval Metrics – Precision and Recall – Reference Collection – User-based
Evaluation – Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion – Explicit Relevance Feedback.

UNIT III TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING 9


A Characterization of Text Classification – Unsupervised Algorithms: Clustering – Naïve Text
Classification – Supervised Algorithms – Decision Tree – k-NN Classifier – SVM Classifier – Feature
Selection or Dimensionality Reduction – Evaluation metrics – Accuracy and Error – Organizing the
classes – Indexing and Searching – Inverted Indexes – Sequential Searching – Multi-dimensional
Indexing.
UNIT IV WEB RETRIEVAL AND WEB CRAWLING 9
The Web – Search Engine Architectures – Cluster based Architecture – Distributed Architectures –
Search Engine Ranking – Link based Ranking – Simple Ranking Functions – Learning to Rank –
Evaluations -- Search Engine Ranking – Search Engine User Interaction – Browsing – Applications of a
Web Crawler – Taxonomy – Architecture and Implementation – Scheduling Algorithms – Evaluation.
UNIT V RECOMMENDER SYSTEM 9
Recommender Systems Functions – Data and Knowledge Sources – Recommendation Techniques –
Basics of Content-based Recommender Systems – High Level Architecture – Advantages and
Drawbacks of Content-based Filtering – Collaborative Filtering – Matrix factorization models –
Neighborhood models.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

Text Books :
1. Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, ―Modern Information Retrieval: The
Concepts and Technology behind Search, Second Edition, ACM Press Books, 2011.
2. Ricci, F, Rokach, L. Shapira, B.Kantor, “Recommender Systems Handbook”, First Edition,
2011.
Reference Books :
1. C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze, ―Introduction to Information Retrieval,
Cambridge University Press, 2008.
2. Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke and Gordon V. Cormack, ―Information Retrieval:
Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, The MIT Press, 2010.
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