CS 371R:
Information Retrieval and Web Search


Instructor

Raymond J. Mooney, office hours: Tu 11am-12pm, Thu 2-3pm (in person in GDC 3.806 or on Zoom by appointment via email)

Teaching Assistant

Priyanka Mandikal, mandikal@cs.utexas.edu, Office hours: Mon, Tue 8 - 9 am, on Zoom

Time and Place

Fall, 2023; TuTh 9:30-11:00 AM; GDC 5.302 (in-person, no Zoom option).

General Course Information

Textbook

Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze

Programming Projects

Exams

PowerPoint Presentations

  1. Introduction (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  2. Boolean and Vector-Space Retrieval Models (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  3. Basic Tokenizing, Indexing, and Implementation of Vector-Space Retrieval (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  4. Performance Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  5. Query Operations (Relevance Feedback / Query Expansion) (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  6. Text Properties and Languages (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  7. Web Search: Introduction (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  8. Web Search: Spidering (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  9. Web Search: Link Analysis (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  10. Automated Text Categorization and Neural Network Learning (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  11. Automated Text Categorization: IR, kNN, and Naive Bayes (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  12. Language Models (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  13. Language-Model Based Retrieval (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  14. Deep Learning (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  15. Recommender Systems (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  16. Ethical Issues in IR (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)
  17. Clustering, Information Extraction, and Semantic Parsing (PowerPoint) (PDF) (PDF handout)

Servlet Demos

Java Course Code

A jar file for the course Java code is available here.

JavaDoc for Course Code

Related Courses

Miscellaneous Links

Relevant Books Written for the General Public


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