1. 中国计算机学会学科前沿讲习班:信息检索 Course Overview
闫宏飞
北京大学，信息科学技术学院，计算机系
yhf AT net.pku.edu.cn
Thanks to Chengxiang Zhai for sharing many of these slides.
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2. Course Objectives
Introduce information retrieval (IR) and Search Engine (SE)
Foundation: Basic concepts, principles, methods, etc
Trends: Frontier topics
Prepare students to do research in IR and/or related fields
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3. Course Management Course website: Course group discussion: Questions:
Course group discussion:
Questions:
Post the questions on the group discussion forum
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4. What is Text Info. Management?
TIM is concerned with technologies for managing and exploiting text information effectively and efficiently
Importance of managing text information
The most natural way of encoding knowledge
Think about scientific literature
The most common type of information
How much textual information do you produce and consume every day?
The most basic form of information
It can be used to describe other media of information
The most useful form of information!
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5. Text Management Applications
Mining
Access
Select
information
Create Knowledge
Add
Structure/Annotations
Organization
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6. Examples of Text Management Applications
Search
Web search engines (Google, Yahoo, …)
Library systems
Recommendation
News filter
Literature/movie recommender
Categorization
Automatically sorting s
Mining/Extraction
Discovering major complaints from in customer service
Business intelligence
Bioinformatics
Many others…
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7. Elements of Text Info Management Technologies
Retrieval
Applications
Summarization
Visualization
Mining
Applications
Filtering
Mining
Information
Organization
Information
Access
Focus of
the course
Knowledge
Acquisition
Search
Extraction
Categorization
Clustering
Natural Language Content Analysis
Text
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8. Text Management and Other Areas
User
Human-computer interaction
Information
Science
Computer
science
TM Applications
Software engineering
Web
Probabilistic inference
Machine learning
TM Algorithms
Natural language processing
Storage
Compression
Text
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9. Related Areas Applications Web, Bioinformatics… Machine Learning
Models
Applications
Web, Bioinformatics…
Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition
Data Mining
Info Science
Statistics
Optimization
Information
Retrieval
Databases
Natural
Language
Processing
Software engineering
Computer systems
Algorithms
Systems
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10. Publications/Societies (Incomplete)
Learning/Mining
Applications
ICML
WWW
WSDM
ICML, NIPS, UAI
RECOMB, PSB
Info. Science
ACM SIGKDD
Info Retrieval
Statistics
ASIS
JCDL
AAAI
ACM SIGIR
HLT
Databases
NLP
ACM CIKM
TREC
ACL
ACM SIGMOD
COLING, EMNLP, ANLP
SOSP
VLDB, PODS, ICDE
Software/systems
OSDI
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11. Where to Publish IR Papers
Core IR conferences:
ACM SIGIR, ACM CIKM
ECIR, AIRS
Core IR journals
ACM TOIS, IRJ
IPM, JASIS
Web Applications
WWW, WSDM
Other related conferences
Natural Language Processing: HLT, ACL, NAACL, COLING, EMNLP
Machine Learning: ICML, NIPS
Data Mining: KDD, ICDM
Databases: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE …
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12. Next lectures Web Search Crawling the Web Retrieval Models Appendix
Essential Background
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