151818917 INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ( 3 Crd.Hrs )

This course expects the Ph.D. student to review background material in the area of Information Retrieval, Extraction, and Management, and to develop/deliver a presentation on a research topic. The course gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. Topics include: Boolean retrieval, term vocabulary and postings lists, dictionaries and tolerant retrieval, index construction and index compression, scoring, term weighting and the vector space model, computing scores in a complete search system, evaluation in information retrieval, relevance feedback and query expansion. Course Objectives The main objective of this course is to present and be able to describe different advance concepts in information retrieval and more advance techniques of multimodal based information systems. The second objective of the course for the student is to understand the underlined problems related to IR and acquire the necessary experience to design, and implement real applications using Information Retrieval systems.