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IR Course Description

Filed under GSLIS Administrative
Posted by GSLIS, June 06, 2005
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Dear GSLIS Students:

Below is the course description for LIS 531H - Information Retrieval. It will be listed at http://my.simmons.edu/gslis/courses/descriptions/ms-topics.shtml by the end of the week, but in the meantime, I wanted you to be able to see it. If you have any questions, please let me know.

— Jen (jennifer.doyle@simmons.edu)

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LIS 531H: Information Retrieval (3 credit hours for students entering the program Fall 2005 and thereafter; students who enter the program prior to Fall 2005 have the option of taking this course for either 3 or 4 credits)

Description: This course covers all aspects of Information Retrieval (IR). In this class, students study technical foundations of text-based retrieval: IR models, system evaluation, improvements on retrieval through relevance feedback, human-computer interaction for IR, multimedia IR, and IR in the library, especially web, library, and digital library applications. Some specific class topics include interactive information visualization, IR and multimedia, free-text searching and the integration of semantically-tagged records, language issues that form domain-specific retrieval research programs (e.g. bioinformatics, medical librarianship; latent semantic indexing, generalized vector model and Markov-chain clustering techniques).

Pre-req: LIS 488