ITIS401 : Information Retrieval Systems

Department

Department of Information Systems

Academic Program

Bachelor in Information Systems

Type

Elective

Credits

03

Prerequisite

ITGS211ITGS222

Overview

Information Retrieval provides a strong grounding in the fundamentals of organizing on-line information, multimedia warehouses, Web search/crawling and digital libraries. Topics include: Introduction to Information Retrieval, Boolean Retrieval, Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval, Index Construction, Dynamic Index Construction, Index Compression, The Vector Space Model, Scoring in the Vector Space Model, Information Retrieval Evaluation, Web Search, Web Crawling, Link Analysis, Flat Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, Relevance Feedback, Query Expansion, New Research in Information Retrieval, Student Project.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge &understand

• To understand how Information Retrieval provides a strong grounding in the fundamentals of organizing on-line information, multimedia warehouses, Web search/crawling and digital libraries.
• To deal with Information Retrieval models, Boolean Retrieval, Dictionaries and Tolerant Retrieval, Index Construction, Dynamic Index Construction, Index Compression, The Vector Space Model, Scoring in the Vector Space Model, Information Retrieval Evaluation, Web Search, Web Crawling, Link Analysis, Flat Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, Relevance Feedback, Query Expansion, New Research in Information Retrieval, Student Project.

mental skills

• Providing design and implementation solutions
• Understand the opportunities that virtual computing service provision models, such as IRS and search engines.
• Configure simple solutions in IRs

Practical & professional skills

• Maximize the impacts of IRs in the digitalized systems
• Understand how IRs components are organized into a solution in different organizational environments
• Apply the core concepts underlying IRs to solve simple problems, including search engines

General and transferable skills

• Maximize the impacts of IRs in the digitalized systems
• Understand how IRs components are organized into a solution in different organizational environments
• Apply the core concepts underlying IRs to solve simple problems, including search engines

Teaching and learning methods

• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Problem-based learning
• Mini-projects

Methods of assessments

• Midterm exam = 30
• Final exam = 60
• Home Works = 5
• Project = 5

Course contents

• What Is Information and What Is Information Retrieval, How Does Information Retrieval Work?
• Data, Information, and Knowledge
• Representation of Information
• Attribute Content and Values
• Models of Virtual Data Structure
• The Physical Structure of Data
• Querying the Information Retrieval System
• Interpretation and Execution of Query Statements
• Text Searching
• System-Computed Relevance and Ranking
• Search Feedback and Iteration
• Multi-Database Searching and Mapping
• Search Strategy
• The Information Retrieval System Interface

Information Retrieval Systems (ITIS401)
Knowledge Management (ITIS402)
Data Mining/Business Intelligence (ITIS404)
Business Process Management (ITIS405)
Decision support system (ITIS406)
IS Innovation and New Technologies (ITIS407)
E-Government (ITIS408)
Physics (ITPH111)
Mathematics I (ITMM111)
Arabic language 1 (ITAR111)
Problem solving Technic (ITGS113)
Intro to Information Technology (ITGS111)
General English1 (ITEL111)
Mathematics II (ITMM122)
logic Circuit Design (ITGS126)
System Analysis and Design (ITGS124)
Introduction to Programming (ITGS122)
General English2 (ITEL122)
Arabic language 2 (ITAR122)
Introduction to Statistics (ITST211)
Object Oriented Programmin (ITGS211)
Introduction to Software Engineering (ITGS213)
Introduction to Networking (ITGS215)
Discrete Structures (ITGS217)
Numerical analysis (ITGS219)
Computer Architucture & Organization (ITGS223)
Data Structure (ITGS220)
Foundation of Information Systems (ITGS222)
Information Security (ITGS224)
Introduction to Internet Programming (ITGS226)
Introduction to database (ITGS228)
Operating System (ITGS302)
Scientific Writing (ITGS304)
Web Application Development (ITIS311)
Human Computer Interaction (ITIS312)
Data and Information Management (ITIS313)
Advanced Databases (ITIS325)
IT Infrastructure (ITIS323)
Design and Analysis algorithms (ITGS301)
Multimedia Systems (ITIS324)
Advanced System analysis & Design (ITIS326)
Enterprise Architecture (ITIS411)
Risk management and Security (ITIS412)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (ITIS413)
IT Project Management (ITGS303)
Enterprise Systems (ITIS421)
IS strategy ,management and acquisition (ITIS422)