INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND EXTRACTION

[1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2003 ]


THE INSTRUCTOR

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

The objective of this class is to introduce students to the fundamentals of modern information retrieval systems. This course will start by studying classic textual information retrieval systems, then move to modern information retrieval on WWW. The first half of the course will be lecture oriented, and the second half is seminar oriented. Students will be expected to read papers on a research topic of their choice, present a summary to the class, and do an independent project.

COURSE CONTENT

  1. Introduction to Information Retrieval and Extraction
  2. Conventional Information Retrieval Systems
  3. Term Operations and Document Processing
  4. Automatic Indexing
  5. Information-Retrieval Models
  6. Retrieval Performance Evaluation
  7. Query Operation
  8. Relevance Feedback
  9. Clustering Algorithms
  10. Searching on the Web
  11. Information extraction

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