一、課程說明(Course Description)
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<br>本課程的目的，在介紹資訊的儲存、索引、檢索、分類的基本概念與技術。 
<br>課程的方向，要求學者對基本的概念有明確的掌握，並強化對工業界應用的現況的了解。為了讓修習課程的每一位同學，都有第一手的實作經驗，規劃了實作的練習。 
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<br>二、指定用書(Text Books)
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<br>Introduction to Information Retrieval by C. D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schutze
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<br>四、教學方式(Teaching Method)
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<br>Lectures based on textbook
<br>Additional recent papers
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<br>五、教學進度(Syllabus)
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<br>1 Boolean retrieval
<br>2 Index construction
<br>3 Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model
<br>4 Evaluation in information retrieval
<br>5 Relevance feedback & query expansion
<br>6 Probabilistic information retrieval 
<br>7 Language models for information retrieval
<br>8 Text classification & Naive Bayes
<br>9 Vector space classification
<br>10 Support vector machines & machine learning on documents 
<br>11 Flat clustering
<br>12 Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexing
<br>13 Web search basics
<br>14 Web crawling and indexes
<br>15 Link analysis
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<br> 六、成績考核(Evaluation)
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<br>Home work, midterm, and term project. 
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