ISI 6341 Information Representation and Retrieval Technologies

3 units
Information Studies
Faculty of Arts
Survey of digital technologies for representing and retrieving information. The course focuses on XML and database methods for representing, querying, and transforming structured data, including entity relationship diagrams, XML schema and XML style sheets. The course also examines technologies that underlie search engines, such as natural language processing, full-text indexing, document classification, semantic search, and recommender systems, situating each of these technologies in the context of document repositories and digital libraries. Previously ISI 5141.

Components:

Lecture

Requirements:

Prerequisites: 12 units among compulsory core courses

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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