- Boolean retrieval
- The term vocabulary & postings lists
- 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 html
- Hierarchical clustering
- Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexing
- Web search basics
- Web crawling and indexes
- Link analysis
An Introduction to Information Retrieval.
Christopher D. Manning; Prabhakar Raghavan; Hinrich Schütze.
nlp.stanford.edu .
Apr 1, 2009.