Learning outcomes

To get acquainted with the indexing and matching methods of information retrieval and practise the mathematical definition of information retrieval functions. Upon completion of the course, the student will be familiar with some mathematical principles of the operation of information retrieval systems and understand the main differences between different systems in finding documents.

Contents

Models of information retrieval: Boolean model and fuzzy Boolean model, vector space model, probability models, language models and other information retrieval models. Methods of indexing and retrieval of documents in each model.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	18 h	0 h
Seminar	6 h	0 h

lectures (20 h) and project work
OR ALTERNATIVE BOOK EXAM, see books below.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Recommended year of study

1. year spring

Study materials

Material for the book exam: Rijsbergen, Information retrieval. Butterworths 1979. (1980). 2nd ed. Available online at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html; Baeza-Yates & Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval. Addison-Wesley Longman 1998. Chapters 1-8; Korfhage, Information storage and retrieval. Wiley 1997.

Further information

An advanced course for those interested in information retrieval. Compulsory in postgraduate studies in information retrieval.

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