Systems for the recovery of the information (s) (2006/2007)

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Course code
4S01413
Name of lecturer
Barbara Oliboni
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Academic sector
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Language of instruction
Italian
Location
VERONA
Period
1st semester dal Oct 2, 2006 al Dec 20, 2006.

Lesson timetable

Learning outcomes

This course provides the main notions about information retrieval systems.
Moreover, the course introduces the student to semistructured data and XML.

Syllabus

Information retrieval systems
- Introduction
- Types of queries
- The matching process
- Text analysis
- Performances of information retrieval systems

Information encoding

Compression
- Introduction
- Lossy and lossless compressions
- Compression techniques

Semistructured documents and information retrieval
- Features of semistructured data
- Semistructured data models
- Query languages for semistructured data

XML and databases
- Databases and web
- Introduction to XML
- Databases and XML

Using XML for electronics publishing
- Content-centric documents
- Data-centric documents

Reference books
Author Title Publisher Year ISBN Note
Robert R. Korfhage Information Storage and Retrieval Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam.

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