This one semester course provides a strong grounding in the fundamentals of IR, multimedia warehouses, Web search/crawling and digital libraries. This course is intended to prepare you to design, develop and use information systems. We will explore the practices, issues and theoretical foundations of organizing and analyzing information and information content for the purpose of providing intellectual access to textual and non-textual information resources. You will learn how effective information search and retrieval is interrelated with the organization and description of information to be retrieved. You will also learn to use a set of tools and procedures for organizing information, and will become familiar with the techniques involved in conducting effective searches of print and online information resources. The course also introduces the major types of information retrieval systems, the different theoretical foundations underlying these systems, and the methods and measures that can be used to evaluate them.
These topics will be examined through readings, discussion, hands-on experience using various information retrieval systems, and through exercises designed to help explore the capabilities and utility of different retrieval systems.A variety of current research topics are also covered, including cross-lingual retrueval, document summarization, topic detection and tracking and multi-media retrieval.
CSE-8337 Class Textbook: Modern Information Retrieval , by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Perthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co. Inc., 1999.
Readings in Information Retrieval by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
Web Client Programming by C. Wong, O'Reilly and Associates, 1997.
Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots by F. Cheong, Indianapolis, IN : New Riders, 1996.
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