Information Storage and Retrieval I

Code:

CINF003

Acronym:

ARI1

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://www.fe.up.pt/si/disciplinas_geral.FormView?P_CAD_CODIGO=CINF003&p_ano_lectivo=2009/2010&p_periodo=1S
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	47	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	3	-	7	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

On completion of this course, te student should be able to:

-Identify information retrieval tasks performed with specific tools or embedded in services;
-Describe the retrieval tools and their components;
-Distinguish classical information retrieval models, identifying their principles, document models and similarity measures;
-Use text-processing software to index documents and anticipate their results;
-Clearly separate the indexing and search modules in information retrieval tools;
-Perform web retrieval tasks using advanced search modes;
-For a document collection and a retrieval task, create an appropriate document model and specify automatic methods for processing the documents;
-Calculate several reference measures for evaluating retrieval systems;
-Participate in retrieval evaluation efforts, providing relevance judgements for selected topics;
-Relate textual information retrieval with its extensions to voice and image, identifying the open problems.

Program

Information storage and retrieval and its tasks. Information retrieval versus data retrieval. The evolution of information retrieval. The information retrieval process. General features of retrieval systems.

Information retrieval models. Boolean model, vectorial model, probabilistic model.
Processing documents and queries: lexical analysis, stemming, compression. Index construction.
Retrieval using indexes. Term weights and document ranking.

Web information retrieval. Crawling and indexing. Link analysis.

Evaluation in retrieval systems. Test collections, topics and relevance judgements.

Mandatory literature

Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Modern information retrieval. ISBN: 0-201-39829-X
Manning, Christopher D.; Introduction to information retrieval. ISBN: 978-0-521-86571-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Tutorial classes are accompanied by practical sessions, using selected software. Students present their projects in the scheduled sessions.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	46,00
Project: Evaluation of Web Retrieval	Trabalho escrito	30,00		2009-12-11
Practical Exercises	Teste	30,00		2009-12-17
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Dossier maintenance	Estudo autónomo	30	2009-12-17
Study	Estudo autónomo	53	2010-01-08
	Total:	83,00

Eligibility for exams

50% in practical evaluation

Calculation formula of final grade

Mark = round(50% * exam + 10% * practical exercises + 30% * mini-project + 10% * course dossier)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Group presentation of projects.

All students have to complete the projects and present them as scheduled.