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MIT 3661F (Fall 2011)   Search and Discovery

Course Description
Information searching and its relationship to the design of search technologies.  Theory and practice of retrieval from commercial databases; Web search engine design; the implications of ranking algorithms and recommender systems; open-source and proprietary search technologies.  Emerging search functionalities based on multimedia, natural language processing and social software.

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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