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About the Course

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media such as blog articles, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. Text data are unique in that they are usually generated directly by humans rather than a computer system or sensors, and are thus especially valuable for discovering knowledge about people’s opinions and preferences, in addition to many other kinds of knowledge that we encode in text. This course will cover search engine technologies, which play an important role in any data mining applications involving text data for two reasons. First, while the raw data may be large for any particular problem, it is often a relatively small subset of the data that are relevant, and a search engine is an essential tool for quickly discovering a small subset of relevant text data in a large text collection. Second, search engines are needed to help analysts interpret any patterns discovered in the data by allowing them to examine the relevant original text data to make sense of any discovered pattern. You will learn the basic concepts, principles, and the major techniques in text retrieval, which is the underlying science of search engines....

Top reviews

GS

May 19, 2020

A bit difficult to complete as the Quiz questions were tougher. But when you go through all, you might feel good.

YZ

Aug 24, 2018

I'd appreciate Prof.Zhai's lesson design with robust framework. BUT I really can not accept that the mistake that homework putted in wrong week and STILL NOT FIXED AFTER TWO YEARS!

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By Primanshu

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Nov 5, 2020

As always. A great learning experience on coursera.

By Andrey N

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Jun 10, 2017

Very clear and to the point about complex concepts

By Lena H

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Mar 11, 2019

help for building a whole picture about the field

By orientalboyli

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May 1, 2020

Good introductory course, recommend all readings

By PATEL H K

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Oct 17, 2019

Good course to learn machine learning approaches

By A O

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Feb 18, 2021

Top-notch lectures, at least on search systems

By Alan J R

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Feb 19, 2020

Such a great course, definitely very enriching

By Sarvesh G

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Jan 24, 2021

Very good and comprehensive MOOC course.

By s t

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May 1, 2020

Excellent course with proper explaination

By Vijayashri B

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Oct 3, 2019

Course designed really simple and useful

By leila S

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Aug 13, 2016

much help for deep understanding of TR

By SOUFIANE B

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Jan 20, 2017

A very useful course! thanks prof.

By Julio C R

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May 24, 2016

It is an excellent trending topic!

By Yifan N

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Nov 16, 2016

great introductory course for IR

By Deleted A

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Jun 2, 2020

That was the best course !!!

By Avraham L

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Jun 24, 2019

enlightening and interesting

By Hamza A

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Jun 24, 2021

very very very Informative

By Goya Z

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Aug 13, 2016

我太喜欢这种课程编排模式了：导论，视频，测试，考试

By Menghe L

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Jun 7, 2017

very good for learners

By 李元岑

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Dec 13, 2016

It's worth to learn!

By Sreerag

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May 28, 2020

Excellent sessions

By Vidya S

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Jun 24, 2017

Very interesting!

By hamza k

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Dec 12, 2025

Truly impressive

By ОРАҚБАЙ Қ П

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Nov 3, 2024

Very informative

By Dr. S E

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Aug 12, 2020

Excellent course