INFOS13 Methods in Cross-Language Information Retrieval, 6 ECTS – Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media

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INFOS13 Methods in Cross-Language Information Retrieval 6 ECTS

Organised by

Information Studies

Person in charge

visiting lecturer (contact department's amanuensis)

Preceding studies

Compulsory:

INFOA34 Language Technology of Information Retrieval

Belongs to following study modules

Learning outcomes

To familiarise students with the methods used in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) research and with the methods of language technology applied in CLIR-systems.

Dictionary-based methods. Corpus-based methods. The applications of machine translation in cross-language information retrieval. Language typologies from the viewpoint of cross-language information retrieval. The multilingualism of the Web and information retrieval.

Teaching methods

Web course; 10 h of seminar and project work.

Teaching language

Finnish

Modes of study

Independent study of the web material, exercises on the web material, project work, and reporting and presenting the project work in the seminar. Course's home page:
http://www.info.uta.fi/kurssit/clir/ Note: material in English.