Lectures by Eriks Sneiders
Lecture 1
Basic Information Retrieval - overview, Boolean retrieval model
Lecture 2
Basic math for the vector-space retrieval model
Basic Information Retrieval - vector-space retrieval model, evaluation of retrieval, pooling
Lecture 3
Basic Information Retrieval - interpolated precision, query expansion and relevance feedback, document indexing, link analysis
Lecture 5
Search Engines - overview, web crawling, keyword matching
Lecture 6
Search Engines - link analysis, site authority, semantic search with Knowledge Graph, Hummingbird, RankBrain
Lecture 7
Search Engine Optimization
Lecture 8
The Invisible Web