CS 242: Information Retrieval and Web Search

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 1.5 hours; project, 1.5 hours per week

Catalog page 209

Prerequisites: CS 141, CS 166

Description: CS 242 online section; enrollment in the online Master of Science in Engineering program. Introduces Informa- tion Retrieval (IR) principles and techniques for index- ing 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.

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Enrollment History (from UCR Banner, not catalog)
Year F W S Su Total
2025-26  41/ 53  41/ 53
2024-25  53/ 53  53/ 53
2023-24  77/120  77/120
2022-23 117/120 117/120
2021-22 131/141 131/141
2020-21  46/116  46/116
2019-20 115/115 115/115
2018-19  63/ 74  63/ 74
2017-18  66/ 70  66/ 70
2016-17 32/36  32/ 36