Postgraduate - UnitFIT5166 - Information retrieval systems

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit presents students with the theory and practice underlying computerised information retrieval. Topics covered include: history and context of information retrieval systems, retrieval models, Boolean, vector space and probabilistic, evaluation strategies, test collections, web search engines, indexing, content-based multimedia retrieval and relevance feedback.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit students will:

appreciate the context and application of information retrieval systems;
understand the different models of information retrieval and their comparative advantages and disadvantages;
understand how objective and subjective evaluation strategies are used with information retrieval systems;
be conversant with the issues and challenges of managing very large collections of heterogeneous data for information retrieval;
understand how web search engines and search algorithms are constructed, utilised and deployed;
appreciate how to index different media;
understand how information retrieval systems can be used for the retrieval of audio-visual information;
appreciate the theoretical and practical underpinnings of relevance feedback in information retrieval systems.