Biomedical Information Retrieval(P75A500)

Instructor: Prof. Jung-Hsien Chiang (蔣榮先)

Course: Tue 2-4; Office Hour: Mon 3-4

Course Goals

To understand and be able to apply information retrieval technology in automated biomedical literature search. Students will participate in intensive computer programming projects and will enhance their skills via research to various search technologies. This course also includes paper presentation and final project as well. Students will be expected to complete all course requirements upon their participation.

Course Outline
  • Introduction
  • Basic IR Modeling
  • Retrieval Evaluation
  • Document Processing
  • Word Embedding
  • Query Operation
  • Indexing and Search
  • Searching the Webs
  • Social text Analytics/Image Retrieval
  • Bioinformatics Information Extraction
Textbook

Manning, Raghavan, and Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press, 2009

References

Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press), 2010

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Addison-Wesley Inc., 1999

Grading Policy

Computer Assignment*                    40%

Presentation**                                   30%

期末課程項目 30%

課程講義

課後作業

補充教材

教學大綱

SYL-IR2025.pdf