Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Academic calendar
The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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Semestrino IA | Sep 28, 2015 | Nov 14, 2015 |
Semestrino IB | Nov 16, 2015 | Jan 16, 2016 |
Semestrino IIA | Feb 22, 2016 | Apr 16, 2016 |
Semestrino IIB | Apr 18, 2016 | Jun 4, 2016 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione invernale | Jan 18, 2016 | Feb 20, 2016 |
Sessione estiva | Jun 6, 2016 | Jul 30, 2016 |
Sessione autunnale | Sep 1, 2016 | Sep 30, 2016 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione estiva | Jul 7, 2016 | Jul 7, 2016 |
Sessione autunnale | Nov 24, 2016 | Nov 24, 2016 |
Sessione invernale | Apr 3, 2017 | Apr 8, 2017 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa di Ognissanti | Nov 1, 2015 | Nov 1, 2015 |
Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2015 | Dec 8, 2015 |
Vacanze di Natale | Dec 23, 2015 | Jan 6, 2016 |
Vancanze di Pasqua | Mar 24, 2016 | Mar 29, 2016 |
Festa della Liberazione | Apr 25, 2016 | Apr 25, 2016 |
Festa dei Lavoratori | May 1, 2016 | May 1, 2016 |
Festa del S. Patrono S. Zeno | May 21, 2016 | May 21, 2016 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2016 | Jun 2, 2016 |
Vacanze estive | Aug 8, 2016 | Aug 15, 2016 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Culture and Civilisation Teaching and Student Services Unit.
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Academic staff
Cioffi Antonio
Villani Simone
simonevillani@tiscali.itStudy Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Information Retrieval Systems (m) (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S02367
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Period
Semestrino IA, Semestrino IB
Learning outcomes
introduction to fundamentals of the information retrieval systems, in particular to text analysis and web retrieval.
Program
Contents and studying materials are the same for attending and non-attending students.
Prerequisite: basic notions of computer science and computer technologies.
Coursework:
1.Information retrieval systems
- Introduction to information retrieval systems
- IR models
- retrieval metrics
2.Text analysis
- document preprocessing
- text indexing
- Zipf's law
- stemming and stop-lists
- thesauri
3.Introduction to multimedia information retrieval systems
- features and goals
- main issues
4.Introduction to user interfaces for search
- how user interface biases searches
- retrieval results display
5.Web retrieval
- Web, features and structure
- search engines
- basic notions and architecture
- search and ranking of web pages
- search engine user interaction
- Web spam
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Semantic search engines (notions)
- Search based on user profile
6.Structured text retrieval
- Basic notions about semistructured data
- Structured text retrieval models
- introduction to XML
- XML and digital libraries
7.Brief presentation of information retrieval systems and software
- WolframAlpha: a natural language search engine
- Eurovoc: the official European Union thesaurus
Teaching method: frontal lecture
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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de leo domenico | Appunti delle lezioni | 2019 | In italiano. Sufficienti alla preparazione dell'esame. | ||
C. D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze | Introduction to information retrieval (Edizione 1) | Cambridge University Press | 2008 | 9780521865715 | In inglese. Disponibile online http://informationretrieval.org |
R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto | Modern Information Retrieval (Edizione 2) | Addison Wesley | 2011 | 978-0-321-41691-9 | In inglese. Principale libro di riferimento. |
Examination Methods
Written examination consisting of questions about the concepts exposed during the lessons.
The slides and studying material provided by the teacher are enough to prepare the exam. Suggested books are intended for integration and in-depth study.
Teaching materials e documents
- Calendario delle lezioni (aggiornato il 18/11/2015) (pdf, it, 38 KB, 18/11/15)
- Dispense 01 - Intro ai SI e SRI (pdf, it, 239 KB, 23/09/15)
- Dispense 04 - Thesauri (pdf, it, 160 KB, 14/10/15)
- Slide 01 - Intro al corso, ai SI e ai SRI (pdf, it, 5317 KB, 30/09/15)
- Slide 02 - Tipi di query (pdf, it, 4071 KB, 30/09/15)
- Slide 03 - Valutazione dei SRI (pdf, it, 2735 KB, 07/10/15)
- Slide 04 - Analisi di testi (pdf, it, 1986 KB, 14/10/15)
- Slide 04b - Analisi di testi - esempio (pdf, it, 158 KB, 21/10/15)
- Slide 05 - SRI multemediali (pdf, it, 6769 KB, 21/10/15)
- Slide 06 - SRI sul web (pdf, it, 4606 KB, 21/10/15)
- Slide 07 - Ricerca semantica (pdf, it, 10995 KB, 11/11/15)
- Slide 08 - Ricerca personalizzata (pdf, it, 1935 KB, 11/11/15)
- Slide 09 - Interfacce per la ricerca (pdf, it, 1830 KB, 11/11/15)
- Slide 10 - SEO (pdf, it, 2268 KB, 11/11/15)
- Slide 11 - Oltre la ricerca classica (pdf, it, 2192 KB, 18/11/15)
- Slide 12 - XML (pdf, it, 169 KB, 18/11/15)
- Slide 13 - XML per l'editoria (pdf, it, 6020 KB, 18/11/15)
- Temi d'esame 2011/12 - NB: gli esami 2015/16 possono differire in alcuni contenuti (zip, it, 491 KB, 23/09/15)
- Temi d'esame 2012/13 - NB: gli esami 2015/16 possono differire in alcuni contenuti (zip, it, 340 KB, 23/09/15)
- Temi d'esame 2013/14 - NB: gli esami 2015/16 possono differire in alcuni contenuti (zip, it, 398 KB, 23/09/15)
- Temi d'esame 2014/15 - NB: gli esami 2015/16 possono differire in alcuni contenuti (zip, it, 375 KB, 23/09/15)
Type D and Type F activities
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Graduation
List of thesis proposals
theses proposals | Research area |
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Laureandi Editoria e Giornalismo: vademecum | Various topics |
TESI SU COMUNICAZIONE DELL’AGROALIMENTARE | Various topics |