CSIS - 371. Information Retrieval

3 credit(s)
Information Retrieval (IR) will discuss theory and practice of searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic information. Topics covered include automated indexing, statistical and linguistic models, text classification, Boolean and probabilistic approaches to indexing, query formulation and output ranking, information routing and filtering, topic detection and tracking, as well as measures of retrieval effectiveness, including relevance, utility, miss/false-alarm. Techniques for enhancing retrieval effectiveness including relevance feedback, query reformulation, thesauri, concept extraction, and automated summarization. Experimental retrieval approaches from Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) and modern Internet search engines (Google, Yahoo!, etc.) as well as recent advances into automated question-answering methods will be discussed. Computer Use Fee.

Prerequisite(s): CSIS 210.
Attribute: ARTS