Introduction: Information retrieval, IR problem, IR System, The web.

User interfaces for search: Introduction, How people search, Search interfaces today, Visualization on search interfaces, Design and evaluation of search interfaces.

Textbook: Chapter 1: 1.1 to 1.4, Chapter 2: 2.1 to 2.5

Modeling: IR models, Classic information retrieval, Alternative set theoretic models, Alternative algebraic models, Alternative probabilistic models, Other models.

Textbook: Chapter 3: 3.1 to 3.6

Retrieval Evaluation: Retrieval metrics, Reference Collections, User-based evaluation

Relevance feedback and Query expansion: A framework for feedback methods, Explicit relevance feedback, Explicit feedback through clicks, Implicit feedback through local analysis, Implicit feedback through global analysis

Documents - Languages and Properties: Metadata, Document formats, Text properties, Document preprocessing, Organizing documents, Text compression

Textbook : Chapter 4: 4.3 to 4.5, Chapter 5: 5.2 to 5.6, Chapter 6: 6.2 to 6.3, 6.5 to 6.8

Indexing and Searching: Inverted indexes, Signature files, Suffix trees and suffix arrays, Sequential searching, Multi-dimensional indexing.

Textbook: Chapter 9: 9.2 to 9.6

Web retrieval: The web, Search engine architectures, Search engine ranking, Managing web data, Search engine user interaction.

Structured Text Retrieval: Structuring Power, Early text retrieval models, XML retrieval, XML retrieval evaluation.

Textbook: Chapter 11: 11.2 to 11.7, Chapter 13: 13.2 to 13.5