Information RetrievalCENG 555

Spring 2011-2012

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

Educational approach

Will be between a • lecture, • seminar, and • laboratory(coding projects)

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.

Grading

• Homework (20%)• Research Project(s) (30%)• Seminar(s) (25%)• Final (25%)

Homeworks

Every homework will be submitted as a technical report.

• practical and theoretical concepts• four or five in number – 20% of grade

Research Project

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

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