CS 4422:Information Retrieval

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CS 3305 and (CS 3410 or CSE 3153)
This course covers the fundamentals of Internet search engines, including Web crawlers, inverted indices, hyperlink analysis, and relevance ranking. Also covered are advanced topics including information extraction for knowledge base construction, question answering, search marketing and ad targeting, and activity mining for relevance optimization and personalization.