CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour

Catalog page 201

Prerequisites: CS 100; CS 111; EE 114 or STAT 155

Description: Introduces information retrieval (IR) principles and techniques for indexing and searching document collections. Topics include Web search, text processing, ranking algorithms, search in social networks, and search evaluation. Also studies scalability issues in search engines.

Credit: Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) grading is not available.

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Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26  95/180  95/180
2024-25 176/180 176/180
2023-24 176/180 176/180
2022-23 135/135 135/135
2021-22 127/138 127/138
2020-21  96/100  96/100
2019-20 50/50  69/ 75 119/125
2018-19 60/70  65/ 81 125/151
2017-18  64/ 65  64/ 65
2016-17 20/25  20/ 25