Information Retrieval Systems Syllabus for Web Technology M.Tech first year first sem is covered here. This gives the details about credits, number of hours and other details along with reference books for the course.
The detailed syllabus for Information Retrieval Systems M.Tech 2017-2018 (R17) first year first sem is as follows.
M.Tech. I Year I Sem.
Course Objectives: On completion of this course you should have gained a good understanding of the foundation concepts of information retrieval techniques and be able to apply these concepts into practice. Specifically, you should be able to:
- To use different information retrieval techniques in various application areas
- To apply IR principles to locate relevant information large collections of data
- To analyze performance of retrieval systems when dealing with unmanaged data sources
- To implement retrieval systems for web search tasks.
UNIT – I : Boolean retrieval. The term vocabulary and postings lists. Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval. Index construction. Index compression.
UNIT – II : Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model. Computing scores in a complete search system. Evaluation in information retrieval. Relevance feedback and query expansion.
UNIT – III : XML retrieval. Probabilistic information retrieval. Language models for information retrieval. Text classification. Vector space classification.
UNIT – IV : Support vector machines and machine learning on documents, Flat clustering, Hierarchical clustering,
Matrix decompositions and latent semantic indexing.
UNIT – V : Web search basics. Web crawling and indexes, Link analysis.
TEXT BOOK:
- Introduction to Information Retrieval , Christopher D. Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
- Information Storage and Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, Kowalski, Gerald, Mark T Maybury, Springer.
- Modern Information Retrieval, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Pearson Education, 2007.
- Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics, David A Grossman and Ophir Frieder, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2004.
- Information Retrieval Data Structures and Algorithms, William B Frakes, Ricardo BaezaYates, Pearson Education, 1992.
- Information Storage & Retieval, Robert Korfhage, John Wiley, & Sons.
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