Informatics 141: Information Retrieval:
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Winter 2009
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
From the catalog:
"An introduction to information retrieval including indexing, retrieval, classifying, and clustering text and multimedia documents."
Information Retrieval is a *the* hot industry on the web today thanks to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and all of the other competitors out there both current and past. The amount of effort required to translate your 2 or 3 keywords into 5-10 relevant documents is enormous. During this class we will attempt to explore some of the complexities behind search.
Instructor: Professor Don Patterson
Email: djp3@ics.uci.edu
Lecture: T R 9:30 - 10:50
Classroom: SST 120
Office Hours:
By appointment DBH 5084
Teaching Assistant : Yasser Ganjisaffar
Email:yganjisa AT ics DOT uci DOT edu
Discussion: M 11:00 - 11:50
Classroom: DBH 1200
Office Hours:
By appointment