INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (4 CREDITS)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: explain the principal of information retrieval concept; summarise various approaches of information retrieval; design information retrieval application.

Topics:

1. Introduction to Information Retrieval;
2. Basic Techniques;
3. Text Preprocessing;
4. Retrieval Model;
5. Probabilistic Retrieval;
6. Language Modeling;
7. Project Presentation Part 1;
8. Categorization and Filtering;
9. Link Analysis;
10. IR Applications: Sentiment Analysis;
11. IR Applications: Recommender System;
12. IR Applications: Question and Answering;
13. Project Presentation Part 2.