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