Introduction to Information Retrieval

Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval

Index construction

Index compression

Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model

Computing scores in a complete search system

Evaluation in information retrieval

Relevance feedback & query expansion

XML retrieval

Probabilistic information retrieval

Language models for information retrieval

Text classification & Naive Bayes

Vector space classification

Support vector machines & machine learning on documents

Flat clustering

Hierarchical clustering

Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexing

Web search basics

Web crawling and indexes

Link analysis

More advanced topics