DAPI 2020/2021

Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering
Information Description, Storage and Retrieval
Instance: 2020/2021
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Information Description, Storage and Retrieval (Descrição, Armazenamento e Pesquisa de Informação)

This course aims to: (i) introduce the main issues in the organization, storage and characterization of large data collections; (ii) introduce the main concepts in textual information retrieval and their application in retrieval tools; and (iii) explore the semantic web methods and tools and use web resources and their descriptions in applications that make use of data semantics.

General Information

SIGARRA: English | Português | Students | Photos | Classes | Schedule | B020
Contents: Plan (Plano) | Summaries
Teachers: Sérgio Nunes (Coordinator), Cristina Ribeiro

Assessment Details

Practical work: Project Rules (Regulamento) | Project Groups (Grupos)
Uploads & foruns: Moodle
Project Deliveries: D1 Materials | D2 Materials | D3 Materials | Participation | Milestones Grades
Mini-test #1: Study guide | Grades
Mini-test #2: Study guide | Grades
Student: Final grades

Course Materials

Classes: Lectures (Teórico-práticas)
Materials: Datasets
Tools: OpenRefine | Apache Lucene | Apache Lucene docs | Protégé
Portals: Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group | Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

Plan

Week	Day	Topics (Friday 14h00, B020)	Milestones	Materials
1	25/Sep	0. Introduction. I. Datasets. I1. Domain identification. I2. Collection and preparation of data.	Milestone #1: Groups and practical work.	[Class]
2	2/Oct	I3. Models and data characterisation. I4. Storage and access to data.	Milestone #1: Working with datasets.	[Class]
3	9/Oct	II. Information Retrieval. II1. Basic concepts.	Milestone #1: Dataset characterization. Brief presentation.	[Class]
4	16/Oct	II2. Information Retrieval models.	Milestone #2: Information Retrieval.	[Class]
5	23/Oct	II2b. Information Retrieval models.	Delivery and Presentation #1	[Class] [Schedule]
6	30/Oct	II3. Evaluation of Retrieval systems.	Milestone #2: Information Retrieval.	[Class]
7	6/Nov	II4. Information Retrieval on the Web.	Milestone #2: Information Retrieval.	[Class]
8	13/Nov	FEUP Week		[Break]
9	20/Nov		Mini-test #1 (B208)	[Guide]
10	27/Nov	—	Delivery and Presentation #2	[Schedule]
11	4/Dec	III. Semantic Web. III1. Representation. RDF, RDF Schema. Querying. SPARQL.	Milestone #3: Semantic Web.	[Class]
12	11/Dec	III2. Ontologies. OWL.	Milestone #3: Semantic Web.	[Class]
13	18/Dec	III3. Vocabularies. Linked data. Dublin Core.	Milestone #3: Semantic Web.	[Class]
—	8/Jan	—	Mini-test #2 (B104, 14:00) + Delivery and Presentation #3 (mixed: online + B020, 16:00)	[Schedule] [Guide]

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