GINF533U - Information Access and Retrieval

Available from Master 2 MOSIG and MSIAM. Course Description

This course is given by Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Philippe Mulhem and Georges Quénot from the Multimedia Information Modeling and Retrieval (MRIM) research group of the Grenoble Informatics Laboratory (LIG).

Contact: Georges.Quenot@imag.fr

Part I. Foundations of Information Retrieval (Philippe Mulhem, Jean-Pierre Chevallet)

Part II: Web and social networks (Philippe Mulhem)

Part III: Multimedia indexing and retrieval (Georges Quénot)

The examination will be on January 22, 2018 from 2 to 4pm in ENSIMAG Amphi E. Course materials, the three papers related to the examinations, personal notes, and calculators (without network capabilities) are allowed. You will have to answer questions on two main topics that occur in the lessons. You are expected to do a research work on the papers, in a way to understand them and to be able to comment then. The first topic is related to classical term weightings and the papers to read are:

The second topic is related to neural networks with “shortcut connections” for image classification. The paper to read is:

Be sure to bring with you a copy of the three research papers as they will NOT be redistributed with the examination subject. These can be annotated by you.

Reference to IR books or papers