Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 1.5 hours; project, 1.5 hours per week
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Description: Introduces Information Retrieval (IR) principles and techniques for indexing and searching document collections with special emphasis on Web search. Includes text processing, ranking algorithms, search in social networks, search evaluation, and search engines scalability.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor. Credit is awarded for only one of CS 242 or CS 242V.