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PV211 -- Introduction to Information Retrieval (Spring 2016)

Intro | News | Lectures | Links | Projects |

Intro

The course is based on the book Manning, Raghavan and Schutze: Introduction to Information Retrieval, taught at Stanford, Munich and other places. There are numerous, rich and detailed materials available on Coursera. Several copies of the textbook are available in the library at FI.

In the course you will, among other things, learn how is it possible that Google is able to respond to 10,000+ questions per second from different places on the globe within miliseconds. And it satisfies most questioners by ranked lists of documents chosen from 100,000,000,000 documents in such a way that seekers find the answer within first 10 hits and their information needs are satisfied...

I will try to encourage you to `flipped learning' approaches where possible, e.g. by encouraging creation of learning resources like Khan Academy lessons: try to have a look at intro PV211 trailer about history and importance of information retrieval.

News

Lecture slides and other materials

Links (more links in slides)

Projects and miniprojects

I will be glad if you get encouraged into course topics and you decide to get insight into it by solving [mini]projects. Activities in this direction will be rewarded by the nontrivial number of premium points towards successful grading. Number of stars below is an estimate of project difficulty, from miniproject [(*), 10b] to the Master's project size [(*****), 50+b]. I am open to assign/extend a project as a Bachelor or Master's thesis, just contact me.

Žákovi, který se hrozil chyb, Mistr řekl: "Ti, kdo nedělají chyby, chybují nejvíc ze všech - nepokoušejí se o nic nového." Anthony de Mello: O cestě.

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