(Web Search and Information Retrieval)
- Introduction to IR and web search
- Search engine architecture
- Overview of traditional IR methods
- IR evaluation
- Advanced IR methods: language model-based, neural IR, learning to rank
- Overcoming word mismatch problem: language model-based approaches and query expansion approaches
- Query log data analysis and Query Suggestion
- Recommendation systems
- Overview of different IR-based tasks and applications: Personalized search, Information extraction, Cross-Language IR, Question answering systems, Expert finding, Digital library, Multimedia retrieval