CSI 4107 Information Retrieval and the Internet

3 units
Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering
Basic principles of Information Retrieval. Indexing methods. Query processing. Linguistic aspects of Information Retrieval. Agents and artificial intelligence approaches to Information Retrieval. Relation of Information Retrieval to the World Wide Web. Search engines. Servers and clients. Browser and server side programming for Information Retrieval.

Components:

Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: 9 course units in computer science (CSI) or software engineering (SEG) at the 3000 or 4000 level.

Previously Offered Terms:

Fall
Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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