INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

COURSE OUTLINE

Kulliyyah Information and Communication Technology

Department Information System

Programme Bachelor of Information Technology

Course Title Information Retrieval

Course Code INFO 1701

Status Department Required

Level 1

Credit Hours 3

Contact Hours 3

Pre-requisites
(if any)

Co-requisites
(if any)

Instructional Presentations and lectures, demonstrations, direct instructions, problem

Strategies solving, oral reports.

Course
Assessment
Learning Outcome Method %
State weightage
of each type of 1, 2 Exercises (Individual) 20
assessment. 3 Written report (Group project) 15
3 Class presentations (Group project) 10
1, 2 Quizzes 10
1, 2, 3 Participation 5
1, 2, 3 Final Examination 40
Total 100

Instructor(s) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hjh. Roslina Othman

Room No.: 5-024 Level 5, KICT (INSTED Building)
Tel. No.: 03-6196-5675; Fax: 03-6196-5179
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 Email: roslina@kict.iiu.edu.my

Consultation Hours:
Tuesday: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. & 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
Wednesday: 2:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Thursday: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. & 2:15 – 3:15 p.m.

Semester Semester I & Semester II

Offered
Course Synopsis This course covers basic concepts of information retrieval, IR models,
query languages, Web retrieval, retrieval utilities, output presentation,
multimedia information retrieval, evaluation of an IR system, performance
measures, and retrieval of Quranic texts.

Course The objectives of this course are to:

Objectives
1. introduce students to the concepts of IR
2. enable students understand and apply the retrieval strategies and
utilities offered by commercial IR systems and those for Quranic
texts
3. enable students work as a team to identify and apply the
performance measures for evaluating an IR system, in the form of
written and oral reports

Learning Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Outcomes
1. understand the concepts of IR
2. explain and apply the retrieval strategies and utilities offered by
commercial IR systems and those for Quranic texts
3. work as a team to identify and apply the performance measures for
evaluating an IR system, in the form of written and oral reports

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Content Outlines Weeks Topics Task/Reading
1 Basic concepts of information retrieval Kowalski &
Maybury,
Chap.1, pp. 1-
20
2–3 IR Models Kowalski &
Boolean, Vector space, Probabilistic Maybury,
Proximity, Contiguous word phrases, Fuzzy Chap. 2, pp.
Term masking, Thesaurus expansion 27-36
Natural language
Browsing (Ranking and Zoning)
4–5 Query Languages Othman &
ACM, Business Source Premier, Emerald, Halim.
Engineering Village 2, IEEE Xplore,
Index Islamicus, IRWI, Expanded IIUM Library
Academic, ScienceDirect
6 Web retrieval Google
Google, Yahoo! Yahoo!
Answers.com (Question-answering system) Answers.com
Islamicity.com Islamicity.com
7–8 Retrieval Utilities Kowalski &
Relevance feedback Maybury, pp.
Clustering 175-178, 139-
Stemming 150, 73-80
9 Output presentation IIUM Library
Relevance ranking
Record display
Lateral searching
10 Multimedia information retrieval Kowalski &
Audio retrieval Maybury,
Image retrieval Chap. 10
Video retrieval
11 Evaluation of an IR system Kowalski &
Laboratory & Operational Maybury,
Performance measures (Relevance-based, Chap. 11, pp.
Usability & Time-based) 257-266
12 Extended IR system Google
Google Scholar Scopus &
Scopus & Scirus Scirus
Web of Science (WoS) WoS
13 – 14 Quranic texts Othman &
Retrieval strategies Noordin
Retrieval utilities

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References Required
Kowalski, G. J., & Maybury, M. T. (2000). Information storage and
retrieval systems: Theory and implementations (2nd ed.). Norwell,
M.A.: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Recommended
Answers Corporation. (2007). Answers.com. Retrieved from
http://www.answers.com
Google. (2007). Google. Retrieved from http://www.google.com.my/
IIUM Library. (2007). Online databases. Retrieved from
http://lib.iiu.edu.my/index.jsp?module=ROOT&action=onlinedb.jsp
Islamicity.com. (2007). Islamicity. Retrieved from
http://www.Islamicity.com
Othman, R., & Noordin, M.F. (2005). Web of knowledge for Quranic
text: A proposed structure. In Mohd. Yusof, Z., Mohd. Noah, S.A.,
Mat Zin, N.A., Salim, J., & Jaafar, A. (Eds.), CAMP ’05: Seminar
Capaian Maklumat dan Pengurusan Pengetahuan (pp. 199-210).
Bangi, Malaysia: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Othman, R., & Halim, N.S. (2004). Retrieval features for online
databases: Common, unique, and expected. Online Information
Review, 28(3), 200-210.
Yahoo! (2007). Yahoo! Retrieved from http://www.yahoo.com