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Last updated: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:23:49 PM SGT : This class is over. Please take a look at this link for the current version of this class.

Module Description (excerpted from the bulletin): This module discusses the basic concepts and methods of information retrieval including capturing, representing, storing, organizing, and retrieving unstructured or loosely structured information. The most well-known aspect of information retrieval is document retrieval: the process of indexing and retrieving text documents. However, the field of information retrieval includes almost any type of unstructured or semi-structured data, including newswire stories, transcribed speech, email, blogs, images, or video. Therefore, information retrieval is a critical aspect of Web search engines. This module also serves as the foundation for subsequent modules on the understanding, processing and retrieval of particular web media.

N.B. We will be teaching and using the Python programming language throughout this class. We will using Python 2.6.6 instead of the updated Python 3.x, as the NLTK library that we will also be using is currently incompatible with 3.x.

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Min-Yen Kan <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg> Wed Dec 8 13:16:25 SGT 2010 | Version: 1.0 | Last modified: Wed Feb 2 12:39:09 2011