Department of Computer Science & Engineering

University of Ioannina

Information Retrieval

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Class Description

Course_ID: MYE003

Weekly Hours: 5

Semester: >=6

ECTS Credits: 5

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Description:Introduction to information retrieval systems. Modeling: Boolean, vector-space, set-theoretic, probabilistic, language models. Query Languages. Text processing and compression. Zipf and Heaps laws. Indexing: inverted lists, dictionaries, suffix trees. Information retrieval systems evaluation, standard text collections. Relevance feedback and query expansion. Automatic document classification and clustering. Web search: search engines, crawling methods, link methods. Parallel and distributed information retrieval.