Lecture Notes on Neural Information Retrieval

Understand

These lecture notes focus on the recent advancements in neural information retrieval, with particular emphasis on the systems and models exploiting transformer networks.

• These networks, originally proposed by Google in 2017, have seen a large success in many natural language processing and information retrieval tasks.
• While there are many fantastic textbook on information retrieval and natural language processing as well as specialised books for a more advanced audience, these lecture notes target people aiming at developing a basic understanding of the main information retrieval techniques and approaches based on deep learning.
• These notes have been prepared for a IR graduate course of the MSc program in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy.