COMP6714 Information Retrieval and Web Search  
Information Retrieval:  a  Document modeling  b  Inverted index construction and compression 
 c  Vector
space model and ranking methods  d  Probabilistic and language models  e  Evaluation
methods  f  Relevance feedback and query expansion. 
Web Search:  a  Web search engine
architecture  b  Web crawling and indexing  c  Web structure and usage analytics.
The lecture materials will be complemented by projects and assignments.