SIEL, IIIT Hyderabad is offering the Information Retrieval and Extraction course this semester. It is co-instructed by Dr. Vasudeva Varma and Dr. Prasad Pingali, C.E.O of SETU Software Systems Pvt. Ltd. A brief outline of the course is as follows:

• Introduction
• IR Part I
  - Models
  - Scoring functions
  - Index design
• NLP
• Information Extraction
  - IE Fundamentals
  - NER
  - Ontology
  - Semantic web (RDF/OWL)
• Computational Advertising
• IR Part II
  - Web IR
  - Enterprise Search
  - Evaluation
  - Distributed/cloud Computing for IR– Hadoop
• Information Access
  - Summarization
  - Personalization
  - Question Answering
  - CLIR