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Information Retrieval WS 17/

My implementation of course discussions and exercises as I go through it.

Exercise Files

You'll get an empty exercise_files directory. To populate it, run the download_exercise_files.sh file on the unix terminal as:

./download_exercise_files.sh

Lectures

Here's a breakdown of the things I learned from the lectures.

Lecture 1

This lecture teaches:

  • How inverted indexes work
  • Understanding Zipf's law
  • How to create an inverted index
  • How to use the and operation on multiple keywords

Lecture 2

This lecture teaches:

  • How to rank documents
  • Explains the Term Frequency, Document Frequency, TF.IDF, BM25 and how they can help with ranking
  • How to evaluate search engines
  • Explains the Precision, Average Precision, Mean Precisions, Discounted Cumulative Gain and Binary Pref methods of evaluating search engines

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments