Special Topics: AI for Robotic Manipulation
Advanced Information Retrieval

This is a graduate-level course covering the advanced topics in the growing field of information retrieval (IR), which is concerned with how to build intelligent software tools to help users management and make use of large amounts of unstructured (typically textual) data. The impact of IR research is most visible from the recent dramatic growth of the Web search engine industry, but applications of IR research also go beyond search engines to text data mining, and intelligent information systems in general. In this course, we will view IR as broadly related to all kinds of applications involving text data.