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
To be chosen between
12
B
L-LIN/01 ,M-FIL/01
12
B
L-FIL-LET/11 ,L-FIL-LET/12
To be chosen between
6
B
L-ART/07
6
B
SPS/08
1/2 courses to be chosen between
6
B
M-STO/04
12
B
SECS-P/08
6
B
M-GGR/02
6
B
SPS/01
6
B
SPS/07
3 courses to be chosen between
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-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. 2018/2019

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
To be chosen between
6
B
L-ART/06
6
B
L-ART/06
To be chosen between
12
B
INF/01
12
B
M-PSI/06
Practical training
6
F
-
Final exam
24
E
-
activated in the A.Y. 2018/2019
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
To be chosen between
6
B
L-ART/06
6
B
L-ART/06
To be chosen between
12
B
INF/01
12
B
M-PSI/06
Practical training
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)  (2017/2018)

Teaching code

4S02367

Teacher

Gabriele Pozzani

Coordinator

Gabriele Pozzani

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

INF/01 - INFORMATICS

Period

First half of Semester 1 , Second half of Semester 1

Lessons timetable MoodleMoodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

During the course, we will study and analyze the main and fundamental aspects the information retrieval systems (IRSs) are based on. In particular, the course will focus on web-based IRSs.

Different kinds of IRSs will be studied, providing an as much as possible complete and up-to-dated picture of the IRS services now available and used by all of us. These IRSs will be analyzed and compared, showing their pros and cons, differences and similarities.

Several examples of actual and commonly used IRSs will be provided, showing how previously studied theoretical principles are applied and how current systems are evolving including new and peculiar features.

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
• Hidden/deep web and anonymous networks
• Federated search and metasearch
• Aggregators and web feeds
• Recommender systems

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
Robert R. Korfhage Information Storage and Retrieval Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  
C. D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze Introduction to information retrieval (Edizione 1) Cambridge University Press 2008 9780521865715
R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto Modern Information Retrieval (Edizione 2) Addison Wesley 2011 978-0-321-41691-9

Examination Methods

Written examination consisting of open 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.

It is possible to participate to any number of exams during the academic year. Who received a sufficient mark can ask to do not register it and try to get a better result in subsequent exams. However, who participates to an exam will lose any positive mark previously gained, even if subsequent exams are worse or not positive.

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