Web Searching and Ranging

2020/2021

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Informatics

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

4 year, 1 module

Instructor

Shpilman, Aleksei

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Discipline of the basic profile of the professional cycle. Students will receive basic web search algorithms, create their own web crawler, and evaluate the quality of the collected results. This discipline forms the following competencies. As a result of mastering the discipline, the student must: ● know the technology for assessing the quality of the search; ● be able to collect data from web resources; ● Own direct ranking methods and ranking methods using machine learning.

Learning Objectives

• The objectives of mastering the discipline "Web Search and Ranking" are the formation of students' theoretical knowledge and practical skills of web search and data ranking. Students will receive basic web search algorithms, create their own web crawler and evaluate the quality of the collected results.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knows: test collections; quality measures; user behavior; A \ B testing; interleaving.
• Has skills in obtaining and preparing data for search; Web crawling text processing: tokenization, normalization. Owns the concepts of: spam; indexing. Owns request processing skills
• Knows: classic ranking approaches. He has skills in applying ranking using semantic methods; machine learning ranking
• Owns the concepts of: federated search; click models.

Course Contents

• Assessment of the quality of information retrieval
• Preparation of data for search, request processing
• Classical approaches to ranking, application of semantic methods and machine learning
• Federated search, click models

Assessment Elements

• Course project
• Exam

Interim Assessment

• Interim assessment (1 module)
  0.5 * Course project + 0.5 * Exam

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Gossen, T. (2015). Search Engines for Children : Search User Interfaces and Information-Seeking Behaviour. Wiesbaden: Springer Vieweg. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1159664

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Levene, M. (2010). An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=335281