Course details
Code
CS-563
Name
Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval Systems
Program
Postgraduate
Area
Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction
Description
This course focuses on modern and advanced topics in Information Retrieval, specifically on:
• (A) Natural Language Processing
Connection to Linguistics, Pre-processing, morphological, syntactical, semantic and pragmatic analysis.
• (B) Question Answering Systems
Typology of QA systems, techniques for question answering and dialogue systems over documents and data
• (C) Machine Learning Techniques in Information Retrieval
Word Embeddings, Learning to Rank
• (D) Techniques for Sentiment and Opinion Mining, Bias and Fairness in Information Access
Opinion Retrieval, Opinion Analysis, Related Evaluation Activities, Fairness, Diversity/Coverage/Novelty
• (E) Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval
Methods, metrics, collections, statistical significance
ECTS
6
Prerequisites
CS-463
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