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CS 594 Section 31523 (CS 494 Section 31201) meets MWF
from 9:05 to 9:55am in Claxton 206.
This course is open to undergraduate CS majors and
graduate students who have completed
CS 302 and
CS 360 or their equivalents. The required
textbook for this class is
Modern Information Retrieval by R. Baeza-Yates and
B. Ribeiro-Neto (Addison-Wesley, 1999) and the text on reserve checkout
(in Hodges Library) is
Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical
Modeling and Text Retrieval by M.W. Berry and M. Browne (SIAM, 1999).
Possible online textbook suppliers are:
Bookpool and
Efollet.
Instructor's Office Hours: M (1-2pm) in Cl318 TA's are
Rick Thursby and
John Eblen
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Topics covered include: information retrieval (IR) models, performance evaluation, query languages and operations, text and multimedia properties, indexing/searching, parallel and distributed IR, user interfaces, and visualization techniques. Students will participate in a class project involving both the creation and management of a large document collection on the WWW. This project will require programming in languages such as Perl/CGI, PHP, C/C++, or Java. |
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