CSCI1580
Information Retrieval and Web Search
- Instructor(s):
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Eli Upfal Tim Kraska - Course Home Page:
- http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1580/index.html
| Location: | CIT 477 |
| Meeting Time: | Mondays and Fridays 3:00-4:20 |
| Exam Group: | 13; 05/11/2013 Exam Time: 09:00 AM |
| Semester: | 2 (Spring) |
| Offered This Year? | Yes |
| When Offered? | Most Years |
Description
Covers traditional material as well as recent advances in information retrieval (IR), the study of indexing, processing, and querying of textual data. The focus will be on newer techniques geared to hypertext documents available on the World Wide Web. Topics include efficient text indexing; Boolean and vector space retrieval models; evaluation and interface issues; Web crawling, link-based algorithms, and Web metadata; text/Web clustering, classification; text mining.
No prerequisites.
CRN: 25555