Sep 21, 2016
Great course for those trying to understand how ro analyse and process text data. It has the right amount of tools to help you understand the basics of information retrieval and search engines.
Aug 29, 2016
A great overview of text retrieval methods. Good coverage of search engines. A longer course will cover search engine better (remember this is a 6 weeker)
By Karl S
•Jul 30, 2018
Although I was very enthusiastic at the beginning of this course, my enthusiasm was soon replaced by disappointment. There were several reasons for my disappointment: First, it is very difficult to understand Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. This is aggravated by the fact that the subtitles of his videos have not been edited and many of these subtitles do not really make any sense. Furthermore, some of the quizzes check on material that is only covered in the week after the quiz. Second, and more importantly, I was disappointed by the explanations offered by Prof. Zhai. Often, he just drops some technical terms without giving any explanation whatsoever. An example in point is his covering of the Kullback-Leibler divergence. He just dropped the name but did not offer any definition or explanation. Unfortunately, there were many more topics that were only covered in such a name dropping way. In the end, I bought myself the book by Stefan Büttcher and the book by Christopher Manning. These are excellent books that were also recommended by Prof. Zhai. For anybody interested in information retrieval I would actually recommend to go directly to these books instead of taking this course.
By Devender B
•Feb 14, 2019
Literally this is a dead course. No one is active from course to assist students. You can't complete assignment 1 if you are not good with c++ and STL 'PERIOD'.
Giving up this course
By Lena H
•Mar 11, 2019
help for building a whole picture about the field
By Ashish G
•Apr 04, 2019
Sir is Amazing. Reviews saying this course lacks practicals are true. Fact is, you will be able to implement them on your own, as sir explained concepts pretty well. This is by far one of the best courses on coursera, comparable to Mr. Ng's course on ML and DL
By Bilguun B
•Dec 11, 2018
One of the best courses I have taken on Coursera. Really liked how the quizzes were structured!
By Ramakrishnan C
•Apr 13, 2019
Good one
By Andrey N
•Jun 10, 2017
Very clear and to the point about complex concepts
By 李元岑
•Dec 13, 2016
It's worth to learn!
By Leandro O d N
•Oct 03, 2017
Excellent course
By Abe G V T S
•Oct 15, 2017
This was just the course I needed! Great introduction to the Information Retrieval!
By Codrin K
•May 13, 2018
Excellent course. The only request I would have is to make honors programming assignment technology independent (I would have wanted to do it in R) and to add feedback on incorrect answers in quizzes so you can learn more easily from your istakes.
By Rajesh V
•Jul 11, 2016
Love the way the professor introduces the concepts, doesn't overwhelm the student!
By Pankaj M
•Aug 29, 2016
A great overview of text retrieval methods. Good coverage of search engines. A longer course will cover search engine better (remember this is a 6 weeker)
By Hardik J J
•Jun 26, 2016
This course is complemented with a software and text (not mandatory) and good explanation with diagrams...
By Vidya S
•Jun 24, 2017
Very interesting!
By Isaiah M
•Jan 08, 2018
A well put together course, very rigorous and in-depth...
By Dawn A
•May 08, 2018
Arguably the best resource for learning about key concepts of text retrieval online.
By Maurício S d M
•Nov 24, 2016
Very good course, but could have something practical.
By Aigerim
•Jul 04, 2018
perfect course
By Yifan N
•Nov 15, 2016
great introductory course for IR
By Miriyala S
•Apr 23, 2018
Good
By Christopher Z
•Aug 26, 2017
Surprise!!!
By Julio C R
•May 23, 2016
It is an excellent trending topic!
By xianzhi w
•Jul 20, 2016
like it.
By IVAN D S B
•Apr 28, 2017
Very well mounted course.
For the majority of the topics explained, focused on techniques, not jut on theory.
Good suplemental lectures listed.