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Course: Information Retrieval Level: Postgraduate Time: Currently not offered |
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Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Module 1: Introduction to Information Retrieval Unit 01: Introduction to Information Retrieval: Overview of IR Systems, Purpose, Historical Perspectives Unit 02: Concept, Feature, Scope, Function Module 2: Traditional Information Retrieval Strategy Unit 03: Subject Indexing: Concept, characteristics, relationship and differences with cataloguing and classification Unit 04: Subject Indexing Languages (SIL); Meaning of IL; Natural Language Vs IL Unit 05: Controlled Vocabulary (CV): Purpose, methods Unit 06: Subject Headings such as LCSH, Sears List of Subject Headings Unit 07: Thesaurus: Concepts, Purpose, Structure; International Thesauri: Agrovoc, Inspec, MeSH Unit 08: Pre-Coordinate Indexing - Cutter’s Contribution; Systematic Indexing; keyword indexing; Chain Indexing Unit 09: Post-Coordinate indexing – Uniterm indexing, search engine indexing Module 3: Modern IR Models and Strategies Unit 10: Classic IR: basic concepts, Boolean model Unit 11: Vector model, probabilistic model Unit 12: Alternative IR: set theoretic, algebraic models Unit 13: Probabilistic models (Bayesian networks); Unit 14: Mathematical morphological models Unit 15: Structured Text Retrieval Models: model based on non-overlapping lists and proximal nodes Unit 16: Text Operations: document pre-processing (word stemming, stop words, thesauri). Unit 17: Document clustering; Google’s Page Rank model Unit 18: TF-IDF Matrix Unit 19: IR Systems and the WWW Unit 20: Intelligent Web Agents Unit 21: Search methodology, algorithms Unit 22: Cognitive IR modelling Unit 23: Natural Language Processing Unit 24: Multimedia Information Retrieval: (e.g., Image, Audio, Video ) Module 4: Search and Retrieval Query Unit 25: Advanced search techniques: ex: Boolean, fuzzy, truncation, proximity, phrase search Unit 26: Query: keyword based querying, Pattern matching, structural queries, query protocols Unit 27: Hybrid statistical and knowledge approaches: query expansion and refinement based on a similarity, thesaurus and ontologies Module 5: IR Evaluation Unit 28: Evaluation of IR Unit 29: Recall and Precision; dynamic query formulation and reformulation Reference Texts: 1. Aitchison, Jean; Gilchrist, Alan; and Bawdown, David. (1990). Thesaurus Construction and Use: Practical manual. 4th Ed. ASLIB. 2. Becker, Joseph & Hayes, Robert M. (1967). Information Storage and Retrieval tools Elements & Theories. New York: John Wiley. 3. Chowdhury, G G .(2010). Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. Facet Publishing 4. Elis, David(1996). Progress and Problems in Information Retrieval. Library Association. 5. Fosket, A.C.(1992). Subject Approach to Information. Clive Bingley. 6. Fugman, Robert. (1993). Subject Indexing and Analysis Theoretical Foundations & Practical Advice. Index Verlag. 7. Grolier, Eric de. (1962). A Study of general Categories Applicable to Classification and Coding in Documentation. UNESCO. 8. Lancaster, F.W. (1977). The Measurement and Evaluation of Library Science. Information Sources Press. 9. Losee, Robert M. (1998). Text retrieval and Filtering: Analytical Models of Performance. Kluwer. 10. Meadow, Charles T. (2000). Text Information retrieval system. Academic Press. 11. Sharp, Harold S. (1964). Readings in Information Retrieval. The Scarecrow Press. 12. Soergel, Dagobert. (1974). Indexing Languages & Thesaurus Construction & Maintenance. Melville Pub. House. 13. Soergel, Dagobert. (1985). Organizing Information. Principles of Database & Retrieval Systems. Academic Press. 14. Van Rijsbergen, C.J. (1979). Information Retrieval. Butterworths Top of the page Past Exams | ||||||
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