Learning outcomes

To give an overview of methods of information retrieval and their development, and of trends of information retrieval. The course can be taken as a complement to other courses on information retrieval in intermediate studies.

Contents

The development of methods of information retrieval. The basic methods of storage and retrieval: indexing, matching and queries. The evaluation of information retrieval: laboratory methods and user oriented evaluation. Some trends of information retrieval: www information retrieval, cross-language information retrieval, multimedia information retrieval.

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

 

1. Chu, Information representation and retrieval in the digital age. Information Today 2003;
2. Belew, Finding out about: A cognitive perspective on search engine technology and the WWW. Cambridge University Press 2000 OR Levene, an introduction to search engines and web navigation. Addison-wesley 2006.
   

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