CS 453 - Fundamentals of Information Retrieval - Spring 2023

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Course Objectives

• Be able to extract, parse, index, and classify source information for query processing
• Understand and evaluate fundamental IR models: Boolean, Vector Space, Probabilistic, and Fuzzy Set systems
• Know how to represent user's information needs, refine user's queries, and construct query results using snippets and categories
• Learn how to categorize, cluster, and filter query results using various supervised and unsupervised learning strategies

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