Learning outcomes

Familiarise students with the basics of information retrieval.

Contents

The course introduces the basic concepts of information retrieval and the central functions of the field: types of databases and the structure and retrieval methods of document databases; the characteristics of natural language and their impact on information retrieval; conceptual analysis of query topics; matching techniques: exact and partial matching and Boolean logic, search key weighting and the sorting value of documents, and relevance order defined based on them; the evaluation methods of the results of information retrieval; the characteristics of web information retrieval; image and sound information retrieval; information retrieval of fictive and musical material; review of research on information retrieval.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	21 h	0 h
Exercises	6 h	0 h

21 h of lectures, 6 h of tutorials, and weekly exercises.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

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