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Information Retrieval

Lecturer: Dr S. Clark

No. of lectures: 8

Prerequisite courses: Natural Language Processing, and a basic encounter with Probability is assumed

Aims

The course is aimed to characterise information retrieval in terms of the data, problems and concepts involved. The main formal retrieval model and the main evaluation methods are described. The course then covers problems and standard solutions in information extraction, and in question answering.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of this course, students should be able to

Recommended reading

* Manning, C.D., Raghavan, P. & Schütze, H. (2008). Introduction to information retrieval. Cambridge University Press. Available at http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-book.html.



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