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Rensselaer Catalog 2024-2025
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COGS 4650 - Information Retrieval


This course will discuss theory and practice of searching and retrieval of text and bibliographic information. Topics covered include automated indexing, statistical and linguistic models, text classification, Boolean, vector space, and probabilistic approaches to indexing, language models and dense continuous vector space models, query formulation and output ranking, information routing and filtering, topic detection and tracking, as well as measures of retrieval effectiveness, including relevance, utility, miss/false-alarm.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: CSCI 1100 ; familiarity with linear algebra, basic statistics and probability is recommended.

When Offered: Fall annually

Graded: Y

Credit Hours: 4



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