Learning objectives

• Understand how search engines work
• Understand the limits of existing search technology
• Learn to appreciate the sheer size of the Web
• Learn to wrote code for text indexing and retrieval
• Learn about the state of the art in IR research
• Learn to analyze textual and semi-structured data sets
• Learn to appreciate the diversity of texts on the Web
• Learn to evaluate information retrieval
• Learn about standardized document collections
• Learn about text similarity measures
• Learn about semantic dimensionality reduction
• Learn about the idiosyncracies of hyperlinked document collections
• Learn about web crawling
• Learn to use existing software
• Understand the dynamics of the Web by building appropriate mathematical models
• Build working systems that assist users in finding useful information on the Web
  
  
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