CSE133 – Information Retrieval
Units: 4
Course Objectives:
This course focuses on the problems associated with finding relevant documents from very large corpora. Students will construct and experimentally evaluate a complete IR system for a modest textual corpus. The use of these techniques in library and multimedia settings, as well as connections to linguistic and natural language understanding issues will be considered.
Course Description:
How to find "relevant" documents (e.g., an Email message or a book) from very large corpora (e.g., all the world's Email or the library). Students will construct and experimentally evaluate a complete IR system for a modest textual corpus.
Format:
3 hours of lecture per week, 1 hour of discussion section per week, 4 hours of computer lab per week, 4 hours of outside preparation per week
Prerequisites:
CSE 100 or Math 176.
Other restrictions:
Majors only.
Example Textbook(s):
Laboratory work:
Programming assignments on Unix work stations in C.
Offered:
One quarter per year.
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