Search Engines

Catalog description

This course studies the theory, design, and implementation of text-based search engines. The core components include statistical characteristics of text, representation of information needs and documents, several important retrieval models, and experimental evaluation. The course also covers common elements of commercial search engines, for example, integration of diverse search engines into a single search service ("federated search", "vertical search"), personalized search results, diverse search results, and sponsored search. The software architecture components include design and implementation of large-scale, distributed search engines. Prerequisites: ( 36-225 or 36-218 or 21-325 or 15-259 ) and 15-210 Min. grade C and 15-213 Min. grade C and 21-241 Course Website: http://boston.lti.cs.cmu.edu/classes/11-642/