With Effect From the Academic Year 2013-14

BIT 452                                          

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
(Elective-IV)

Instruction                                                                                                      4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination                                                                   3 Hours
University Examination                                                                                    75 Marks
Sessional                                                                                                       25 Marks

UNIT-I
Introduction:Basic concepts, Past present and Future of IRS, Retrieval Process. Modeling: Introduction, A Taxonomy of JR Models, Retrieval:Adhocand Filtering, A formal characterization of IR Models, Classic IR, Set Theoretic Models, Algebraic Models, Probabilistic Models, Structured Text Retrieval Models, Models for Browsing.

U NIT-II
Retrieval Evaluation:Introduction, Reference Collections. Query languages: Introduction, Keyword-based querying, pattern Matching, Structural Queries, Query Protocols.

UNIT-III
Query operations:Introduction, User Relevance Feedback, Automatic Local Analysis,AutomaticGlobal Analysis. Text and Multimedia Languages and Properties: Introduction, Meta Data, Text, Markup Languages, Multimedia.

UNIT-IV
Text operations:Introduction, Document Preprocessing, Document Clustering, Text Compression,ComparingText Compression Techniques. Indexing: Introduction, Inverted Files, Other Indices for Text Searching, Boolean Queries,

UNIT-V
Searching:Sequential Searching, Pattern Matching, Structural Queries, Compression. Parallel and Distributed IR: Introduction, Parallel IR, Distributed JR.
 

Suggested Reading:
1. Ricardo.Baeza-Yates.BerthierRibeiro-Neto, “Modern Information Retrieval”PearsonEducation, 2008

Reference:
1. W.B.Frakes, RicardoBaezaYates, “Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms”, Pearson Education. 2008.
2)Gerald Kowalski,“Information Retrieval Systems:TheoryandImplementation”.KluwaerAcademic Publishers, 1997.