Search Engines
Description
Search engines permeate every facet of our online lives and many offline. This lecture introduces the basic architectures and technology for search engines both on the Web and on other collections of digital artifacts. Topics covered include
- Search Engine Architectures
- Crawling
- Text Processing
- Ranking Indexes
- Search Queries
- Information Retrieval Methods
- Search Engine Evaluation
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Schedule
- Tuesdays, 9:15 Uhr, HS3
- Thursdays, 9:15 Uhr, HS3
The lectures are given in English and are available as tele-task recordings for logged in students.
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Literature
- Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman
- Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze
Examination
The written exam will take place on 27.07.2011 (Wednesday) from 10:00 to 12:00 in HS 1.