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A Technical Approach to Information Retrieval Pedagogy

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Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval

Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series ((INRE,volume 31))

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Like in other subjects belonging to the Computing Science curricula, learning in Information Retrievalmust be significant. In order to understand the main concepts and procedures of this discipline, students and inexperienced researchers must acquire some practical skills which often are demonstrated by means of the transformation of a specification into a software product. In order to reach those aims, this chapter presents a technical approach to Information Retrieval teachingthat focuses on the links between theoretical concepts and programming code. It also presents IR-Components, a frameworkthat could facilitate this purpose.

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    Current URL: http://www.tic.udc.es/~rlopezga/ir-components/index.html. User: “reviewer”. Password: “tlir2010”

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the Spanish Government under project TIN 2009–14203, the European Social Fund and the Dirección Xeral de Ordenación e Calidade do Sistema Universitario de Galicia of the Consellería de Educación e Ordenación Universitaria – Xunta de Galicia (Spain).

We would also like to thank Professor Fernando Bellas for his educational guidance on the architecture of IR-Components.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, Campus de Elviña, A Coruña s/n., 15071, Coruña, Spain

    Rafael López-García

  2. University of A Coruña, Coruña, Spain

    Fidel Cacheda

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    Efthimis Efthimiadis

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    Juan M. Fernández-Luna

  3. , Departamento de Ciencias de la, Universidad de Granada, C/ Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda, s/n., Granada, 18071, Spain

    Juan F. Huete

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López-García, R., Cacheda, F. (2011). A Technical Approach to Information Retrieval Pedagogy. In: Efthimiadis, E., Fernández-Luna, J., Huete, J., MacFarlane, A. (eds) Teaching and Learning in Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22511-6_7

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