CS 410 - Text Information Systems

Spring 2024

TitleRubricSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Text Information SystemsCS410B346258LEC31400 - 1515 W F  1404 Siebel Center for Comp Sci Pablo D Robles Granda
Text Information SystemsCS410BG46259LEC31400 - 1515 W F  1404 Siebel Center for Comp Sci Pablo D Robles Granda
Text Information SystemsCS410CSP57680DIS3 -    Pablo D Robles Granda
Text Information SystemsCS410MC361371ONL3 -    Pablo D Robles Granda
Text Information SystemsCS410MC461373ONL4 -    Pablo D Robles Granda

Official Description

Theory, design, and implementation of text-based information systems. Text analysis, retrieval models (e.g., Boolean, vector space, probabilistic), text categorization, text filtering, clustering, retrieval system design and implementation, and applications to web information management. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 3 or 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: CS 225.

Course Director

Text(s)

ChengXiang Zhai and Sean Massung. 2016. Text Data Management and Analysis: a Practical Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text Mining. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2915031

Learning Goals

Be able to explain the basic concepts and principles of text information systems, such as push vs. push information access, probability ranking principle, and generative models. (1), (2), (6 )

Be able to explain how key algorithms for information retrieval, Web search, and text data mining work and compare them. (1), (2), (6 )
Be able to evaluate a text information system using various metrics such as precision, recall, mean average precision, and nDCG (2 ), (6)
Be able to modify a search engine to improve accuracy (1), (2), (6)
Be able to apply knowledge of text information systems to solve a real-world problem with a course project (1), (2), (3), (5), (6)

Topic List

Background & General Introduction

Information Retrieval Models
Evaluation
Web search
Recommender systems
Text data mining
Course Project
Assignments

Last updated

2/2/2019by ChengXiang Zhai