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.
- 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
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.