CENG 776 Information Retrieval Spring 2013 Syllabus Instructor: Nihan Kesim iekli Office: A308 Email: nihan@ceng.metu.edu.

tr Lecture Hours: Wed. 10:40-13:30 (A101) Course web page: http://cow.ceng.metu.edu.tr Catalog Description Basic and advanced techniques for text-based information systems; text indexing; Boolean and vector space retrieval models; evaluation and interface issues; web search, crawling, linkbased algorithms; text/web clustering, classification Text Book Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning et al., Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Reference Material Managing Gigabytes, by I. Witten, A. Moffat, and T. Bell. Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics by D. Grossman and O. Frieder. Modern Information Retrieval, by R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto. Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, B. Croft et al. Course Outline 1. Introduction to information retrieval 2. The term vocabulary and postings lists 3. Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval 4. Index construction and compression 5. Scoring, term weighting and the vector space model 6. Components of an IR system 7. Evaluation in information retrieval 8. Web search basics 9. Web crawling, indexes and link analysis 10. Text Classification 11. Text clustering 12. Other topics depending on student projects

Grading Written assignments 20 % Project 30 % Presentation 20 % Final Exam 30 %