Thursday, January 9, 2014

Week 1 Reading Notes


Notes:
·          This section provides a good overview of Find Out About which is a cognitive activity using internal representations.
·          One of the main point in this section is the FOA conversation loop which is constructed as three steps: asking a question, constructing an answer and assessing the answer
·          These three steps are also referred as the search engine. Since the amount of data is increasing rapidly, the retrieval of information is difficult. And this is an important area that needs to be studied extensively, such as the cloud computing.


Notes:
·          This section gives me a primary introduction of Information Retrieval. Moreover, it states some examples, such as web search and file system. Especially, the desktop and file system access the file directly instead of a list of ranked files.
·          As is said, the core problem to implement an efficient search engine is to find an efficient implementation and evaluation of relevance ranking algorithms under a variety of contexts and requirements.
·          After reading, I know that there are some other applications which also belong to the Information Retrieval Applications, for example, the spam filtering and documents categorization.

MIR Sections 1.1 - 1.4
http://www.mir2ed.org/
Notes:
·          In this reading, I realized the differences between browsing and searching more clearly. Both of them are processes of retrieving information, but browsing is started with less clearly defined main objective.
·          The section 1.3 introduces the basic core components of an IR system, such as the inverted index and RaR (Retrieval and Ranking). The processes of indexing, retrieval, and ranking of documents are illustrated clearly in Figure 1.3.

·          With the development of web, the IR system (search engine) still faces lots of issues that need to be considered, for example, scalability, efficiency, web spam and performance.

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