CS5286 - Algorithms and Techniques for Web Searching | ||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
This course teaches principles, tools and techniques for Internet information retrieval. Students will be able to develop automated access software to webpages, to analyze their link structures, to index them according to their contents, to rank them with respect to specific queries, to apply information retrieval tools, computational linguistics and hyperlink graph structural understandings to improve the searching results. Students will also be given chances to create their own innovative ideas for web searching in the group project. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 50% | ||||||||
Examination: 50% | ||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
| CS5286.pdf | ||||||||
Useful Links | ||||||||
| Department of Computer Science | ||||||||
