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Fall 2022 CS293S: Information Retrieval and Web Search

Time: M W 11:00- 12:50pm at PHELP 3526

Instructor:

Tao Yang
Department of Computer Science, UCSB
Email: tyang at cs

This course covers advanced topics on information retrieval, web search, and related scalable information systems. The content to be focused includes search engines, indexing, retrieval, and ranking, and support for large-scale online search services/data processing. Recent papers in top conferences will be reviewed, and issues in relevance, efficiency, and scalability will be studied.

Expected Work:

Project/presentation. Homework assignments.

Weekly Schedule:

Tentative schedule

Background References

• Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2010. PDF file . Book website .

• Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. PDF and HTML edition of the book here.