Search Engines (Sommersemester 2009)

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann (Information Systems)
Tutors: Dr. Alexander Albrecht

General Information

• Weekly Hours: 4
• Credits: 6
• Graded: yes
• Enrolment Deadline: 15.05.2009
• Teaching Form: Lecture
• Enrolment Type: Compulsory Elective Module

Programs

• IT-Systems Engineering MA

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
• Classification & Clustering

In the exercise section we will build a Wikipedia Search Engine from scratch.

Requirements

Grundkenntnisse in Datenbanksystemen

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

Learning

3 SWS Vorlesung & 1 SWS Übung

Examination

• Bearbeitung von Übungsblättern in zweier-Gruppen.
• Voraussetzung zur Zulassung zur Prüfung ist die erfolgreiche Bearbeitung der Übungsaufgaben.
• Voraussichtlich wird die Prüfung mündlich sein.

Dates

• Dienstags 9:15 - 10:45 in HS3
• Donnerstags 9:15 - 10:45 in HS3

Verlegungen

- statt 28.06. am 6.07., 17.00 Uhr, in HS 3

- statt 30.06. am 13.07., 17.00 Uhr, in HS 3

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