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AFIRM 2019 - Session on IR in Practice

Dr Guido Zuccon, ielab, University of Queensland, Australia

Welcome to the GitHub repository for the 2019 ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search (AFIRM 2019) session on IR in Practice, 14-18 January 2019, Cape Town, South Africa.

Slides are available in the slides folder of this repository. The practical activities are listed below (with links); activity material is available in the hands-on folder.

Index of activities

• Activity 0: Installation and basic interaction
• Activity 1: Basic Indexing and Search in Elasticsearch
• Activity 2: Boolean retrieval
• Activity 3: Produce a TREC Run
• Activity 4: Access a Term Vector
• Activity 5: Implement a New Retrieval Model
• Activity 6: Document Priors and Boosting
• Activity 7: Text Snippetting for Search Results

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the ielab team for developing parts of the activities we have seen today; in particular Harrisen Scells, Jimmy, Anton van der Vegt, Daniel Locke.