The Computer Science Department is pleased to announce the new CS 401R course that will be offered winter semesters.  This course, titled Fundamentals of Information Retrieval will be taught by Dennis Ng winter semester 2010 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3-4:15 p.m.

Course:            401R sec 1
Course Title:    Fundamentals of Information Retrieval
Time:               Tuesdays and Thursdays 3-4:15pm Winter 2010
Instructor:        Dennis Ng
Credits:            3
Textbook:         Search Engines:  Information Retrieval in Practice

Course Objectives
·      To learn the concepts and terminology of information retrieval (IR) systems.
·      To study the design methodologies and design issues of IR systems.
·      To understand the fundamental IR models, which include the Boolean, Vector Space, Probabilistic models, and evaluation strategies of IR systems
·      To examine various query processing and refinement techniques
·      To survey various topics related to IR systems, including classification and clustering, social search, relevance feedback, ranking, indexing, etc.