371R Information Retrieval and Web Search

Introduction to traditional and recent methodologies for indexing, processing, querying, and classifying unstructured and semi-structured textual data, including hypertext and World Wide Web documents. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Computer Sciences 371R and 378 (Topic: Intelligent Information Retrieval and Web Search) may not both be counted. Prerequisite: Computer Science 429 (or 310) or 429H (or 310H) with a grade of at least C-.