CP 423

This course introduces the foundations of text retrieval and modern search engines. Students learn methods for representing, processing, and analyzing text data, and study key concepts such as text indexing, retrieval models, ranking, and evaluation. Several topics will be covered, such as search engine construction (e.g., document acquisition, indexing, and querying), learning to rank, classification and clustering, and neural approaches to retrieval. Applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and recommender systems are explored. <br> <br><font color="crimson">