Information Retrieval

• Introduction to Information Retrieval.
• Search engine architecture:
  • web crawler
  • basic text analysis techniques
  • inverted index
  • query processing
  • search result interface
• IR models:
  • Boolean.
  • Vector space.
• Evaluation in Information Retrieval
• Relevance feedback and query expansion.
• Link analysis.
• Search Applications: Question answering, Social Search.

Semantic Web

• Introduction to semantic Web
• Semantic Web Basic Architecture:
  • RDF
  • RDF Schema
  • SPARQL Knowledge representation:
  • Ontology
  • Logic
  • OWL
• Semantic application: Ontological Engineering , Semantic Web and linking data