Course code

INT6081.DT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Infootsing ja andmekaeve

Course title in English

Information Retrieval and Data Mining

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2026/2027 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2026/2027 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

The course is aimed at study of information retrieval and data mining basic concepts, techniques and areas of application. It is about how to find relevant information and subsequently extract meaningful patterns out of it.

Brief description of the course

Understanding data. Preparation. Modelling. Evaluation of results. Applications. Textual document indexing, relevance ranking, web usage mining, text analytics, as well as their performance evaluations. Web search engines and data mining applications.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- understand the common techniques for information retrieval (document indexing and retrieval, query processing, etc);
- understands the quantitative evaluation methods for the IR systems and data mining techniques;
- knows the popular probabilistic retrieval methods and ranking principles;
- knows the techniques and algorithms existing in practical retrieval and data mining systems such as those in web search engines and recommender systems;
- understands the challenges and existing techniques for the emerging topics of MapReduce, portfolio retrieval and online advertising.

Teacher

prof Sirje Virkus

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