Tao Yang
Department of Computer Science, UCSB
Email: tyang at cs
Office Hours: After class until 3:30pm (Longer if needed)
This course covers advanced topics on neural information retrieval and web search engines. The content to be focused includes indexing, retrieval, ranking, and system optimization for large-scale search services with deep machine learning and NLP models. Recent papers in top conferences will be reviewed, and issues in relevance, efficiency, and scalability will be studied.
Prerequisite: Linear algebra, probability and statistics, algorithms, and machine learning