CSC 618 - Information Retrieval (3)

Information retrieval (IR) is the process by which a computer system responds to a user’s request for text-based data on a certain topic. IR was among the initial problems in natural language processing (NLP) and is still a major one today. Web search, which applies information retrieval techniques to the web, the largest corpus of text in the world, is the context in which many individuals engage with information retrieval systems most frequently. Students in this course will develop skills in information retrieval.