Information Retrieval
CIS-462
Dr. Samir Tartir
2014/2015
First Semester
Class
• Lecture Times:
– STT 12:10-13:00
• Room: IT-402
• Slides are on ecourse:
– http://ecourse.philadelphia.edu.jo
Lecturer
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Instructor: Dr. Samir Tartir
Office: IT 303
Office Hours: STT 12-2
E-mail: startir@philadelphia.edu.jo
Website
– www.philadelphia.edu.jo/academics/startir/
• Facebook:
– www.facebook.com/groups/DrSamirTartir
Course Overview
• Prerequisites: CIS-261 (Fundamentals of
Databases)
• Textbook:
– Title: “Introduction to Information Retrieval”
– Authors: Manning, Raghavan, Schutze
– Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Description
• Databases only hold the subset of information
known as "structured data". Documents and
hypermedia are also information repositories,
often referred to as semi-structured data.
• The Web makes this area of information
management more important than ever.
• This module introduces topics related to
information retrieval systems, hypermedia
systems and web search.
Objectives
• Giving students an understanding of the
fundamental techniques for hypermedia
architectures, design and usability,
document management and retrieval,
metadata management, and searching the
web.
Course Contents
• Software design and implementation
– Introduction to Information Retrieval (IR) systems
– Boolean Retrieval
– The term vocabulary and posting lists
– Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval
– Index construction and index compression
– Scoring, term weighting and vector space model
– Computing scores in a complete search system
– Evaluation in Information retrieval
– XML Retrieval
– Web Search basics
– Web Crawling and indexes
– Link analysis
• Refer to course page for syllabus
Grading
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First exam: 20%
Second exam: 20%
Quizzes & Participation: 5%
Projects (3 or 4): 15%
Final exam: 40%
Projects
• 3 or 4 programming projects
• To be done in teams of 3
• Submitted by email to
– startir.philly@gmail.com
Late and Cheating Policies
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All assignments are due by 11:59 PM
10% penalty for each late day
Zero points if late by more than 5 days
Proper documentation needed for healthrelated excuses
• Cheating cases handed over to academic
honesty department
– Minimum penalty – F grade with note in
transcript
Use of Electronic Devices
• Laptops/Tablets
– Only for note taking or training on class material, can
be asked to turn in notes.
• Phones
– Must always be silent or turned off while in class
– First time a warning, second you’ll be asked to leave
class.
– Only in emergencies
• Others
– Should be turned off