Information Retrieval 2018

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Introduction to information retrieval with a focus on text documents and images.

Main topics comprise extraction of characteristic features from documents, index structures, retrieval models, search algorithms, benchmarking, and feedback mechanisms. Searching the web, images and XML collections demonstrate recent applications of information retrieval and their implementation.

Lecture

 Friday, 9:00 to 11:00 in CAB G 11
Exercise

Friday, 11:00 to 12:00 in one of the following:
CHN D46 - Surnames starting with A-K
CHN G22 - Surnames starting with L-R
ML J34.1 - Surnames starting with S-Z

 

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ETH EduApp

We will try to make the course a bit interactive, using the ETH ticker application during lectures. You can access it as a website under this link: https://eduapp-app1.ethz.ch/ or install it on your smartphone (links for the main three operating systems are on https://www.ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/education/innovation/eduapp.html ).