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THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGHDEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2005/2006
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Text Technologies (Level 10) (VS1) (U02969)? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : INF-4-TTS This course looks in detail at semi-structured and unstructured data, introduced in Inf 1b. (For students who have taken AI2 and/or CS2, unstructured data corresponds to plain text, while semi-structured data corresponds to text annotated with mark-up, which gives it a light structure. Structured data is corresponds to the data one finds in database). Entry Requirements? This course is only available to part year visiting students. ? This course is a variant of the following course : U02938 ? Pre-requisites : Inf2a OR AI2 OR CS2 ? Co-requisites : Knowledge of elementary data structures and probability is needed to understand indexing, retrieval models, and certain text ranking algorithms. Subject AreasHome subject areaDelivery Information? Normal year taken : 4th year ? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2) ? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks All of the following classes
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
It is anticipated that students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
* Describe the main computational algorithms used to organise, search and recover information present within large volumes of textual material. * Evaluate the performance of such algorithms. * Discuss applications of such techniques in a variety of practical situations. * Demonstrate an understanding of how to successfully recover information from large volumes of texts. Assessment Information
Written Examination 70%
Assessed Assignments 30% Exam times
Contact and Further InformationThe Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries. Course Secretary Mr Neil McGillivray Course Organiser Dr Kyriakos Kalorkoti Course Website : http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ School Website : http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/ |
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