95-773 Information Retrieval

Units: 12.0 Department: Information Systems Mng. Cross-listed: 11-741 Related URLs: http://www.mism.cmu.edu/go.asp?catalog website : http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yiming/courses/11-741/index.html This course studies the theory, design, and implementation of text-based information systems. The IR core components of the course include statistical characteristics of text, representation of information needs and documents, several important retrieval models (Boolean, vector space, probabilistic, inference net, language modeling), clustering algorithms, automatic text categorization, and experimental evaluation. The software architecture components include design and implementation of high-capacity text retrieval and text filtering systems. A variety of current research topics are also covered, including cross-lingual retrieval, document summarization, machine learning, topic detection and tracking, and multi-media retrieval. This course involves written assignments, and programming assignments such as search engine implementation and automatic text classification. Good programming skills are a prerequisite.

Popularity index Rank for this semester: #625 Rank in this department: #29   Students also scheduled 95-711 Financial Analysis 95-700 Organizational Management 95-791 Data Mining 95-799 Linux 95-804 Applied Cryptography 11-792 Software Engineering for Informatio... 95-760 Decision Making Under Uncertainty 95-857 Incident Response 95-710 Economic Analysis 95-779 Text Data Mining

Spring 2005 times

Sec	Time	Day	Instructor	Location
A	12:00 - 1:20 pm	T	Callan, Yang	NSH 3002
		R	Callan, Yang	NSH 3002