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Course Number :
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COIS 443
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Name :
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Information Search, Retrieval & Visualization
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Credits :
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3
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Contact Hours :
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42 Hrs Lecture
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Course Coordinator’s Name :GHADEER ALDWEIK
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Text Book :
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Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by Croft, B., Metzler, D., Strohman, T., 1st Edition, Addison Wesley, 2009.
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Other References :
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Information Visualization by Spence, Robert., 1st edition, Addison Wesley, 2000.
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Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (Interactive Technologies) by Card, Stuart K., Mackinlay, Jock.,Shneiderman, Ben., Morgan Kaufmann, Academic Press, 1999.
Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza-Yates, Ricardo &Ribeiro-Neto, Berthier., 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011
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Specific Course Information
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a. Synopsis :
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This course will discuss about Evaluation & Information Retrieval models, Text categorization & Statistical characteristics of text, Document filtering & information extraction, Parallel, Distributed & Multimedia retrieval, Types of information retrieval, systems and search engine, Query transformation and interface design, Visualization literacy, Usability research, Theories of visual perception and cognition, Visualization models and Visual analytics and data graphics.
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b.Prerequisites :
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COIS 412- Enterprise Architecture
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c.Type of Course :
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Elective Course
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Course Learning Outcomes (CLO)
Upon finishing this course, the students should be able to:
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Techniques behind Web search engines, E-commerce recommendation systems Tools and techniques to do cutting-edge research in the area of information retrieval or text mining. RETIRION B
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Learn about different areas of information retrieval research systems. Design, develop and use information retrieval and search systems CRETIRION C
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Principles of information storage and retrieval systems and databases CRETIRION B
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Identifying and understanding the need for information visualization. Design and construct visualizations.. CRETIRION I
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Course Topics and Their Duration
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Number
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Description
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Duration in weeks
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1
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Introduction to IR; Document representation and retrieval models
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1
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2
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Types of information retrieval systems and search engine
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1
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3
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Document and query representation
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1
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4
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Page Rank: exploiting document links
IR and NLP: cross-linguistic information retrieval
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1
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5
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Document filtering & information extraction
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1
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6
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Query transformation
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1
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7
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Parallel, Distributed & Multimedia retrieval
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1
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8
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Introduction to Information Visualization and Visualization literacy
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1
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9
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Visual Principles , Theories of visual perception and cognition
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1
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10
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Visualization models , Brushing, Linking, Animation and Dynamic Querying
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1
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11
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Modern Information Retrieval, User interfaces and visualization
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1
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12
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Visual analytics and Types of Data and Graphs
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1
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13
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Developing and evaluating visualization-based tools for various types of data
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1
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14
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Problem Analysis with Visualization
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1
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Class Schedule
Meet 50 minutes 3 times/week or 80 minutes 2 times/week
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