Information Retrieval Project

Introduction

Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for metadata that describe data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds. - Wikipedia

Project Characteristics

User Mode

• Search files content using the following methods:
  • Standard search
  • Boolean search
  • Soundex algorithm search
• Search images
• Display files content
• Highlight searched content
• Print file

Admin Mode

• Can perform all of the user actions
• Hide / Unhide files (hidden files cannot be searched by the users)
• Choose files to parse from storage directory (Parsed files will be added to the list of files the users can search from)
• Add files to storage directory

Project Overview

Login Screen

• Login help window can be accessed by pressing File -> Help

User Screen

• Search files content & highlight searched content:

  • Standard search
    
  • Boolean search
    
  • Soundex algorithm search
    

• Search images
  

• Login help window can be accessed by pressing File -> Help

• Display file content by choosing a file and pressing "Show File" button

• Print file by pressing File -> Print
  

Admin Screen

• All of the actions above can be done by the admin
• Hide / Unhide files
  
• Press "Files to Parse" to choose files from the storage directory, then press "Parse Files" in order to parse them (Progress bar will show the parsing progress)
  
• Press "Add Files" to choose and add files to the storage directory
• Admin help window can be accessed by pressing File -> Help

Course Information

Course Name: Information Retrieval

Head Lecturer: Prof. Emanuel Gruengard