Information Retrieval Exploration

Objectives: The objective of the course is to introduce basic information retrieval and related information exploration. The course mainly focuses on the information retrieval essentials and related information exploration services offered by the search engines/systems to the users. The course enables students to design, develop, and evaluate various types of information exploration services.

Contents: Information retrieval essentials; open sources for indexing, retrieval, and ranking; search user interfaces: capabilities and limitations; web search engines/systems results extraction; search paradigms; fact finding, explanatory, and exploratory search; information retrieval and exploration services; linear and non-linear data models; search user interface design for search paradigms; information retrieval exploration evaluation; emerging trends in information retrieval exploration.