1. Information Retrieval CENG 555 Spring 2011-2012

2. Course Web Page Authoritative source of administrivia In-class announcements generally reflected on Web page http://academic.cankaya.edu.tr/~agorur Syllabus, policies Announcements Handouts Due dates

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. 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