Introduction to Information Retrieval
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What is information retrieval (IR)?
- Techniques for returning information stored in a repository
of documents
- Documents are often text, but need not be!
- Retrieval is typically accomplished through user queries
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Some examples
- Contrasts with database querying
- What's easy and what's difficult
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IR techniques and strategies
- Structure and processing of queries
- Processing of documents and presentation of results
- Measuring performance
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