Recuperació de la Informació

Information Retrieval

General

• Official course information
• Instructors:
  • Ricard Gavaldà (coordinator): gavalda(removethis)@lsi.upc.edu
  • Marta Arias: marias(removethis)@lsi.upc.edu
  • Xavier Messeguer: peypoch(removethis)@lsi.upc.edu

Theory

• Slides for Modules 1 to 5, and in 4 per page format (last update: Oct 20th, 2011)
• Materials for modules 6 and 7, in Xavier's homepage

Problems

• Exercise list (fully translated and updated, October 8th, 2011)

Labs

• Session 1: Description and test files 1
• Session 2: Description, English stopwords, test files 2, and acknowledgements
• Session 3: Description
• Session 4: pending
• Materials for modules 6 and 7, in Xavier's homepage

Related courses elsewhere

The order is arbitrary. If you detect any broken links or find some other interesting source, please let us know.

• Carnegie-Mellon
• Stanford
• U. Helsinki
• U. Massachussetts a Amherst
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• U. of Haifa
• Max Planck Institut für Informatik
• Northeastern University
• Cornell
• Johns Hopkins University
• Maryland
• U. of Illinois at Chicago

Other links

• Information Retrieval in Wikipedia.
• The Lucene project
• C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze: Introduction to Information Retrieval, online version. There's an associated set of slides.
• C.J. van Rijsbergen, Information retrieval Online book. Old (1979), but most basic concepts are still relevant
• Karen Spärck Jones homepage. She defined the IDF concept
• Martin Porter's homepage, creator of of Porter's stemmer
• Several good explanations of PageRank and link analysis:
  • El secreto de Google (Google's secret and linear algebra) de Pablo Fernández Gallardo.
  • "How Google finds your needle in the Web's Haystack", by D. Austin, AMS Monthly Essays on Mathematical Topics
  • Link Analysis
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
• Web search for a planet: The Google cluster architecture, by Luiz André Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, and Urs Hölzle
• The Google file system, by Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung

http://www-pagines.fib.upc.es/~ri/

Last update: May 8th, 2012