Dr. Samir Tartir
2015/2016
Second Semester

• Lecture Times:
– STT 13:10-14:00
• Room: IT-404
• Slides are on E-Course:
– http://ecourse.philadelphia.edu.jo

• Instructor: Dr. Samir Tartir
• Office: IT 303
• Office Hours: STT 12-1
• E-mail: startir@philadelphia.edu.jo
• Website
– www.philadelphia.edu.jo/academics/startir/
• Facebook:
– www.facebook.com/groups/DrSamirTartir

• Prerequisites: CIS-261 (Fundamentals of
Databases)
• Textbook:
– Title: “Introduction to Information Retrieval”
– Authors: Manning, Raghavan, Schutze
– Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

• 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.

• 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

• First exam: 20%
• Second exam: 20%
• Projects (3 or 4): 20%
• Final exam: 40%

• 3 or 4 programming projects
• To be done individually and in teams
• Submitted by email to
– startir.philly@gmail.com

• 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 – Failing the class

• 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