Probabilistic RetrievalCovers Probabilistic Information Retrieval, modeling relevance as a probability, query expansion, and automatic thesaurus generation.
Probabilistic Retrieval ModelsCovers probabilistic retrieval models, evaluation metrics, query likelihood, user relevance feedback, and query expansion.
Probabilistic Information RetrievalCovers Probabilistic Information Retrieval, including Query Likelihood Model, Language Modeling, and smoothing techniques for non-occurring terms.
Information Retrieval BasicsIntroduces the basics of information retrieval, covering text-based and Boolean retrieval, vector space retrieval, and similarity computation.
System Modeling LanguagesExplores the significance of System Modeling Languages like OPM, SysML, and Modelica in modern Systems Engineering.
Information Retrieval BasicsIntroduces the basics of information retrieval, covering document representation, query expansion, and TF-IDF for document ranking.
Heavy-Tailed DistributionsExplores heavy-tailed distributions, the Hill estimator, convergence to Gaussian, and distribution comparison.
Pretraining: Transformers & ModelsExplores pretraining models like BERT, T5, and GPT, discussing their training objectives and applications in natural language processing.
Information retrieval: vector spaceCovers the basics of information retrieval using vector space models and practical exercises on relevance feedback and posting list scanning.
Latent Semantic IndexingCovers Latent Semantic Indexing, word embeddings, and the skipgram model with negative sampling.
Node Degree and StrengthExplores node degree and strength in network neuroscience, discussing random vs real networks and the challenges of fitting power laws to real data.