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Course Name	Turkish	Metin Tabanlı Bilgiye Erişim Sistemleri
	English	Text Retrieval Systems
Course Code	BLG 540E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Arzucan Özgür Türkmen
Course Objectives		Understand how search engines work Understand the limits of existing search technology Learn about the state of the art in IR research Learn to analyze textual and semi-structured data sets Learn to evaluate information retrieval Learn about standardized document collections Learn about text similarity measures Learn about semantic dimensionality reduction Learn about web crawling Learn to use existing software Understand the dynamics of the Web by building appropriate mathematical models Build working systems that assist users in finding useful information on the Web
Course Description		The course will focus on the technology underlying the search engines. The basics of information retrieval systems such as information retrieval models, querying, and indexing; as well as more advanced topics including web search, language modeling based information retrieval, query expansion, text clustering and classification will be covered.
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Other		Instructor: Arzucan Özgür - Office: EEB 2316 - Phone: (0212) 285 3608 - E-mail: ozgura@itu.edu.tr - Office Hours: Wednesday, 14:00-16:00 Grading: - Paper presentation: 20% - Project: 30% - Final: 40% - Class participation: 10%
Textbook		Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. Available online at the companion website of the book: http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html
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