Information Retrieval (CMPE563) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Information Retrieval CMPE563 Area Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses Taken From Other Departments
Course Level Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The objective of the course is to teach the principles of information storage and retrieval systems. Students will learn how effective information search and retrieval is interrelated with the organization and description of information to be retrieved. Students will also learn to use a set of tools and procedures for organizing information, will become familiar with the techniques involved in conducting effective searches of online information resources and will build a vertical/specialty search engine
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Mention the principles of information storage and retrieval systems and database
  • Describe how effective information search and retrieval is interrelated with the organization and description information to be retrieved
  • Become familiar with a set of tools and procedures for organizing information
  • Identify the techniques involved in conducting effective searches of online information resources
  • Discuss different theoretical foundations, methods and measurements to underly and evaluate major types of information retrieval systems and search engine.
Course Content Organization, representation, and access to information; categorization, indexing, and content analysis; data structures for unstructured data; design and maintenance of such databases, indexing and indexes, retrieval and classification schemes; use of codes, formats, and standards; analysis, construction and evaluation of search and navigation tec

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction to information retrieval IT01 Chap 1, IT02 Chap 1
2 Text analysis and preprocessing IT01 Chap 2
3 Architecture of a search engines IT01 Chap 4,5, IT02 Chap 2
4 Crawls and feeds IT01 Chap 20, IT02 Chap 3
5 Processing text IT01 Chap 4,5, IT02 Chap 4
6 Ranking with indexes IT01 Chap 4,5, IT02 Chap 5
7 Queries and interfaces IT01 Chap 9,12, IT02 Chap 6
8 Text classification IT01 Chap 16,17, IT02 Chap 9
9 Text clustering IT01 Chap 16,17, IT02 Chap 9
10 Retrieval models IT01 Chap 11,12, IT02 Chap 7
11 Evaluating search engines - I IT01 Chap 8, IT02 Chap 8
12 Evaluating search engines - II IT01 Chap 8, IT02 Chap 8
13 Social search IT02 Chap 10
14 Beyond bag of words IT01 Chap 10,14, IT02 Chap 11
15 Review
16 Review

Sources

Course Book 1. (IR01) Introduction to Information Retrieval, Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN-13: 978-0521865715.
2. (IR02) Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Pearson/Addison-Wesley, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0136072249.
Other Sources 3. Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, Stefan Buettcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, The MIT Press, 2010, ISBN-13: 978-0262026512.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 3 20
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 40
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 5 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 To be able to use mathematics, science and engineering knowledge in solving engineering problems related to information systems. X
2 Design and conduct experiments in the field of informatics, analyze and interpret the results of experiments. X
3 Designs an information system, component and process according to the specified requirements. X
4 Can work effectively in disciplinary and multidisciplinary teams.
5 Identify, formulate and solve engineering problems in the field of informatics. X
6 Acts in accordance with professional ethical rules.
7 Communicates effectively both orally and in writing.
8 Gains awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning.
9 Learn about contemporary issues. X
10 To be able to use modern engineering tools, techniques and skills required for engineering practice. X
11 Knows project management methods and recognizes international standards. X
12 Develop informatics-related engineering products and prototypes for real-life problems. X
13 Contributes to professional knowledge.
14 Can do methodological scientific research.
15 Produce, report and present a scientific work based on an original or existing body of knowledge.
16 Can defend the original idea generated.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 16 2 32
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 3 5 15
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 20 20
Total Workload 125