Information Retrieval CIS-462 Dr. Samir Tartir 2013/2014 First Semester

Class Lecture Times: –STT 10:10-11:00 Room: IT-407 Labs: –To be determined Slides are on ecourse: –

Lecturer Instructor: Dr. Samir Tartir Office: IT 303 Office Hours: STT Website – Facebook: –

Course Overview Prerequisites: CIS-261 (Fundamentals of Databases) Textbook: –Title: “Introduction to Information Retrieval” –Authors: Manning, Raghavan, Schutze –Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Description Databases only hold the subset of information known as "structured data". Documents and hypermedia are also information repositories, often referred to as semi-structured data. The Web makes this area of information management more important than ever. This module introduces topics related to information retrieval systems, hypermedia systems and web search.

Objectives Giving students an understanding of the fundamental techniques for hypermedia architectures, design and usability, document management and retrieval, metadata management, and searching the web.

Course Contents Software design and implementation –Introduction to Information Retrieval (IR) systems –Boolean Retrieval –The term vocabulary and posting lists –Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval –Index construction and index compression –Scoring, term weighting and vector space model –Computing scores in a complete search system –Evaluation in Information retrieval –XML Retrieval –Web Search basics –Web Crawling and indexes –Link analysis Refer to course page for syllabus

Grading First exam: 20% Second exam: 20% Quizzes & Participation: 5% Projects (3 or 4): 15% Final exam: 40%

Projects 3 or 4 programming projects To be done in teams of 3 Submitted by to

Late and Cheating Policies All assignments are due by 11:59 PM 10% penalty for each late day Zero points if late by more than 5 days Proper documentation needed for health- related excuses Cheating cases handed over to academic honesty department –Minimum penalty – F grade with note in transcript

Use of Electronic Devices Laptops/Tablets –Only for note taking or training on class material, can be asked to turn in notes. Phones –Must always be silent or turned off while in class –First time a warning, second you’ll be asked to leave class. –Only in emergencies Others –Should be turned off