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CMPUT 361: Introduction to Information Retrieval

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  • Units: 3
  • Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 and CMPUT 204, or CMPUT 275.
  • Offered: Scheduled: Winter 2027

Introduction to information retrieval focusing on algorithms and data structures for organizing and searching through large collections of documents, and techniques for evaluating the quality of search results. Topics include boolean retrieval, keyword and phrase queries, ranking, index optimization, practical machine-learning algorithms for text, and optimizations used by Web search engines. One of MATH 102, 125, 126, or 127 is strongly recommended.

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