Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

Department: Computer Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: It is the information age! We face challenges brought by large-scale and unstructured information on open systems such as the Web or social media. Through this course, we'll study the theory, design, and implementation of text-based and Web-based information retrieval systems, including an examination of web and social media mining algorithms and techniques at the core of modern search and data mining applications. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Linear Algebra and Basic Probability Theory