Information Retrieval CENG 555 Spring

Course Web Page Authoritative source of administrivia In-class announcements generally reflected on Web page Syllabus, policies Announcements Handouts Due dates

Educational approach Will be between a lecture, seminar, and laboratory(coding projects)

Objectives of the Course a basic theoretical understanding of IR – Representing and indexing text – Retrieval models – Implementing querying efficiently major application areas and recent research topics in IR evaluation of IR systems.

Grading Homework (20%) Research Project(s) (30%) Seminar(s) (25%) Final (25%)

Homeworks Every homework will be submitted as a technical report. practical and theoretical concepts four or five in number – 20% of grade

Research Project Aim is to research and develop an idea or area you would like to explore in depth; Deliverables include Written report Presentation

Information Retrieval Field concerned with the organization, storage, and retrieval of information – Especially text – Also retrieval of semi- structured data (XML), video images, speech, music Requires algorithms and data structures – For manipulating natural language – To efficiently store and process data Related fields – Natural Language Processing, – Library Science – Computational Linguistics – Digital Libraries