CMP681 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

SPRING 2020

Instructor: Engin Demir

Lectures: Tuesday 9:30-12:00 @ D5

Course Description

The objective of this course is to elaborate on the fundamentals of information retrieval (IR), study of indexing, search, relevance, classification, organisation, storage, browsing, and  visualisation.

Communication:

All resources and communications will be carried out through Piazza. Please enroll it by following the link:

https://piazza.com/hacettepe.edu.tr/spring2020/bbm681

Schedule

References

• Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF file. Book website .
• Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. HTML edition of the book here.
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval (second edition), Addison-Wesley, 2011. Book website .
• Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan Buettcher, Gordon V. Cormack, Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press Book website .

Grading

Conferences

• WWW
• WSDM
• SIGIR
• KDD
• TREC
• ICDE
• ICDM
• CIKM
• ECIR
• SPIRE

Journals

• American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems
• Information Processing & Management
• ACM Transactions on the Web
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• Knowledge and Information Systems
• Information Retrieval Journal

Software

• Apache Lucene
• Terrier IR Platform
• The Lemur Project
• Python Package - Whoosh