Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6007 Information Retrieval - Syllabus - Download

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Introduction -History of IR- Components of IR - Issues –Open source Search engine Frameworks - The impact of the web 
on IR - The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in IR – IR Versus Web Search - Components of a Search engine-
Characterizing the web

UNIT II INFORMATION RETRIEVAL 9

Boolean and vector-space retrieval models- Term weighting - TF-IDF weighting- cosine similarity – Preprocessing -
Inverted indices - efficient processing with sparse vectors – Language Model based IR - Probabilistic IR –Latent Semantic 

Indexing - Relevance feedback and query expansion.

UNIT III WEB SEARCH ENGINE – INTRODUCTION AND CRAWLING 9

Web search overview, web structure, the user, paid placement, search engine optimization/ spam. Web size 
measurement - search engine optimization/spam – Web Search Architectures - crawling - meta-crawlers- Focused 
Crawling - web indexes –- Near-duplicate detection - Index Compression - XML retrieval.

UNIT IV WEB SEARCH – LINK ANALYSIS AND SPECIALIZED SEARCH 9

Link Analysis –hubs and authorities – Page Rank and HITS algorithms -Searching and Ranking – Relevance Scoring and ranking for Web – Similarity - Hadoop & Map Reduce - Evaluation - Personalized search - Collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation of documents and products – handling “invisible” Web - Snippet generation, 
Summarization, Question Answering, Cross- Lingual Retrieval.

UNIT V DOCUMENT TEXT MINING 9

Information filtering; organization and relevance feedback – Text Mining -Text classification and clustering -
Categorization algorithms: naive Bayes; decision trees; and nearest neighbor – Clustering algorithms: agglomerative 
clustering; k-means; expectation maximization (EM).

Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6007 Information Retrieval - Syllabus - Download