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.

Study Plan

A.A. 2024/2025 A.A. 2023/2024 A.A. 2022/2023 A.A. 2021/2022 A.A. 2020/2021 A.A. 2019/2020 A.A. 2018/2019 A.A. 2017/2018 A.A. 2016/2017 A.A. 2015/2016 A.A. 2014/2015 A.A. 2013/2014 A.A. 2012/2013 A.A. 2011/2012 A.A. 2010/2011 A.A. 2009/2010 A.A. 2008/2009

This information is intended exclusively for students already enrolled in this course.
If you are a new student interested in enrolling, you can find information about the course of study on the course page:

Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - Enrollment from 2025/2026

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

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
IUS/10
6
B
INF/01
A course to be chosen among the following
12
B
L-LIN/01 ,M-FIL/01
12
B
L-FIL-LET/11 ,L-FIL-LET/12
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-ART/07
6
B
SPS/08
One or two courses to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-STO/04
12
B
SECS-P/08
6
B
M-GGR/02
6
B
SPS/01
6
B
SPS/07
Three courses to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-LIN/12
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-LIN/12
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/04
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/14
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
SPS/02
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
M-PED/01
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/07
6
C
L-LIN/05

2° Year  activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-ART/06
6
B
L-ART/06
A course to be chosen among the following
12
B
INF/01
12
B
M-PSI/06
6
F
-
Final exam
24
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
IUS/10
6
B
INF/01
A course to be chosen among the following
12
B
L-LIN/01 ,M-FIL/01
12
B
L-FIL-LET/11 ,L-FIL-LET/12
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-ART/07
6
B
SPS/08
One or two courses to be chosen among the following
6
B
M-STO/04
12
B
SECS-P/08
6
B
M-GGR/02
6
B
SPS/01
6
B
SPS/07
Three courses to be chosen among the following
6
C
L-LIN/12
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-LIN/12
6
C
L-LIN/10
6
C
L-LIN/04
6
C
L-LIN/03
6
C
L-LIN/14
6
C
L-LIN/13
6
C
SPS/02
6
C
M-STO/08
6
C
M-PED/01
6
C
L-ART/06
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/21
6
C
L-LIN/07
6
C
L-LIN/05
activated in the A.Y. 2016/2017
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
A course to be chosen among the following
6
B
L-ART/06
6
B
L-ART/06
A course to be chosen among the following
12
B
INF/01
12
B
M-PSI/06
6
F
-
Final exam
24
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
12
D
-

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.

A Basic activities
B Characterizing activities
C Related or complementary activities
D Activities to be chosen by the student
E Final examination
F Other training activities
S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations
iIntroductory
padvanced
mMasterful

Information Retrieval Systems (m)  (2015/2016)

Teaching code

4S02367

Teacher

Gabriele Pozzani

Coordinator

Gabriele Pozzani

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

INF/01 - INFORMATICS

Period

Semestrino IA, Semestrino IB

Seminars 0

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

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
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.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Teaching materials e documents