CMPUT 361 - Introduction to Information Retrieval

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Introduction to information retrieval focusing on algorithms and data structures for organizing and searching through large collections of documents, and techniques for evaluating the quality of search results. Topics include boolean retrieval, keyword and phrase queries, ranking, index optimization, practical machine-learning algorithms for text, and optimizations used by Web search engines. Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 and CMPUT 204, or 275. One of MATH 102, 125, or 127 is strongly recommended.

CMPUT 656 - Topics in Artificial Intelligence

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)