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Department of Computer Science

581257 Information Retrieval Methods (6 ECTS/op, 3 cu/ov) Spring 2007

Books for use in the library

The books

  • Salton, G., Automatic text processing. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
  • Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval. Addison Wesley 1999.
are available in the library (downstairs, Handbooks/Reading Room). You can read them in the library but not take them out.

Lecture handouts and other material

The handouts should contain what you need to know in the course. The additional material is for background.

  • Lecture 15 Jan 2007: Introduction, handouts, based on
    • Järvelin, K. ja Kekäläinen, J., Tiedonhaun menetelmät -opintoaineisto: [1.3 Tiedonhaun päämäärät ja ongelmat] [2.3 Tiedonhaku- ja -hallintajärjestelmät]
    • Salton, G., Automatic text processing: Chapter 8, pp. 229-238.
    • Or Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval, chapter 8.2, pp. 192-199.
    • See also: Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval, chapter 1: Introduction, at http://www.dcc.ufmg.br/irbook/
  • Lecture 16 Jan 2007: Relevance, evaluation, handouts, based on
    • Järvelin, K. ja Kekäläinen, J., Tiedonhaun menetelmät -opintoaineisto: [2.5 Relevanssin käsitteestä] [2.6 Tiedonhaun evaluointi]
    • See also: Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto: Modern Information Retrieval: Beginning of chapter 3, pp. 73-79.
  • Lecture 22 Jan 2007: Indexing (1/2), project work, handouts, based on

  • Lecture 23 Jan 2007: Indexing (2/2) handouts, based on
    • Salton, G., Automatic text processing: Chapter 9, s. 294-305. Chapter 8, s.236-238.
    • Järvelin, K. ja Kekäläinen, J., Tiedonhaun menetelmät -opintoaineisto: [3.1 Käänteistiedostot]
    • Witten,I.H., Moffat, A. & Bell, T.C., Managing gigabytes. s. 231-235.

  • Lecture 29 Jan 2007: Matching methods (1/2) handouts, based on
    • Järvelin, K. ja Kekäläinen, J., Tiedonhaun menetelmät -opintoaineisto:: [3.2 Täsmäytysmenetelmät][3.3 Täystäsmäytys: Joukko-oppi tiedonhaussa] [3.4 Osittaistäsmäytys: Esimerkkinä vektorimalli dokumenttien indeksoinnissa ja haussa]
    • Salton, G., Automatic text processing: Chapter 10, s. 313-319. Chapter 8, s.246-248.
    • Witten,I.H., Moffat, A. & Bell, T.C., Managing gigabytes. s. 174-176, 180-188.
  • Lecture 30 Jan 2007: Clustering handouts, based on
    • Salton, G., Automatic text processing: Chapter 10, (section 10.2.) pp. 326-345.

  • Lecture 5 Feb 2007: Matching methods (relevance feedback) (2/2) handouts, based on
    • Järvelin, K. ja Kekäläinen, J., Tiedonhaun menetelmät -opintoaineisto:: [3.4 Osittaistäsmäytys: Esimerkkinä vektorimalli dokumenttien indeksoinnissa ja haussa]
    • Salton, G., Automatic text processing: Chapter 10, s. 319-326.

  • Lecture 6 Feb 2007: Text scanning methods handouts, based on
  • Lecture 12 Feb 2007: Approximate matching: n-grams; From information need to query (Levels of storage and retrieval; Modifying queries) handouts, based on
  • Lecture 13 Feb 2007: Retrieval stretgies; User interfaces and visualization handouts (one slide/page), based on

  • Lecture 19 Feb 2007: Parallel and distributed IR: handouts, based on
    • Chapter 9 in Baeza-Yates, R. & Ribeiro-Neto, B., Modern information retrieval.

  • Lecture 20 Feb 2007: Searching the Web: handouts, based on