Information Retrieval & Web Search
Faculty
Alex Dainiak
Associate Professor at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
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Overview
The web search has been one of the major applications for many applied computer science and data analytic tools for the last two decades, and still remains being so. We’ll consider a typical architecture of a modern search engine, including crawling unstructured text data, building data index, information storage, user query analysis and result ranking. Eventually we’ll build a tiny, decent search engine from scratch
Learning highlights
- The main benefit of the student passing the course is the opportunity to structure the knowledge they already have gained from courses of machine learning, probability, algorithms and data structures. The measurable goal is a working prototype of a search engine having all the traditional steps of data flow implemented.
Course outline
4 classes
Session 1
• Course logistics: communication, project organisation. Brief introduction to git and github and ideology of continuous integration
• Course outline. How does a modern web search engine work (a bird’s-eye view in 30 minutes)
• Searching a database. How it differs from substring search
• Database indices
• Boolean search. Processing a boolean query
• Real-world queries. Fixing typos. Edit distance and variations
• Searching real-world texts. Stemming and stopping. Tokenization, n-grams
• Practice
• Getting the language right. Language models via Markov chains
• Practice
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Alex was born in Moscow in 1985. His first encounter with programming happened in 1998 at a Pascal circle and that was love at first sight (or, better said, first line of code).
Alex teaches math and programming since graduating from the Moscow State University.
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Information Retrieval & Web Search
by Alex Dainiak
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Oct 16 - Nov 03, 2017
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
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Can I get a discount?
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