'Information Retrieval' is a course offered in M. C. A. (Master of Computer Applications) program at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Introduction to Information retrieval - Information Need and User Query - IR domains - Boolean Expression Based Retrieval: Vocabulary and Postings – Lists – Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval – Index Construction and Compression - Scoring and Vector Space Model – Score Computation – Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems – Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion – XML Based Retrieval– Probabilistic Models – Language Models – Text Classification – Vector Space Classification – SVM Based Document Classification –Latent Semantic Indexing – Web Search – Web Crawlers – Link Analysis – Unstructured Data Retrieval Semantic Web – Ontology - Implementations using Natural Language Toolkit.