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This lecture covers the fundamentals of information retrieval, including text-based information retrieval, vector space retrieval, and the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Topics include document representation, query expansion, inverted index, and distributed retrieval. The lecture also delves into the concepts of term-document matrix, similarity computation, and the use of TF-IDF for document ranking.