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Information Retrieval (IR) is the discipline covering the practices,
issues, and theoretical foundations of organizing and analyzing
information and information content for the purpose of providing
intellectual access to textual and non-textual information
resources. This course will introduce students to the principles of
information storage and retrieval systems. Students
will learn how effective information search and retrieval is
interrelated with the organization and description of information to
be retrieved. Students will also learn to use a set of tools and
procedures for organizing information, and will become familiar with
the techniques involved in conducting effective searches of print and
online information resources.
This one semester course provides a strong grounding in the
fundamentals of IR, multimedia warehouses, Web search/crawling and
digital libraries. This course is intended to prepare you to design,
develop and use information systems. We will explore the practices,
issues and theoretical foundations of organizing and analyzing
information and information content for the purpose of providing
intellectual access to textual and non-textual information
resources. You will learn how effective information search and retrieval is
interrelated
with the organization and description of information to be
retrieved. You will also learn to use a set of tools and procedures
for organizing information, and will become familiar with the
techniques involved in conducting effective searches of print and
online information resources. The course also introduces the major
types of information retrieval systems, the different theoretical
foundations underlying these systems, and the methods and measures
that can be used to evaluate them.
These topics will be examined through readings, discussion, hands-on
experience using various information retrieval systems, and through
exercises designed to help explore the capabilities and utility of
different retrieval systems.A variety of current research topics are also
covered, including cross-lingual retrueval, document summarization, topic
detection and tracking and multi-media retrieval.
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CSE-8337 Class Textbook: Modern Information Retrieval , by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Perthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co. Inc., 1999. 
Readings in Information Retrieval by K. Sparck Jones and P. Willett. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
Web Client Programming by C. Wong, O'Reilly and Associates, 1997.
Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots by F. Cheong, Indianapolis, IN : New Riders, 1996.