Xiaoyang Sean Wang
Dorothean Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont,  Burlington, Vermont

 


Web Search & Text Retrieval

Prerequisites: CS104 (data structures) & Math 124 (linear algebra)
Tuesday, Thursday, 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Lafaye L302

Want to learn how Internet search works? This is the class you want to take. Well, you don't just learn how it works,  but you will also learn and practice how to make more interesting search tools with the existing ones available on the Internet.  More specifically, in this course, we will
  1. Study the foundamentals, theories and algorithms and indexing structures and the such, of information retrieval
  2. Take a look at how text search works on the web, including web crawlers and intelligent agents
  3. Practice with Perl to write our own special search tools
Textbook and other teaching materials:: Introduction to Information Retrieval Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Internet resources and class handouts.

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