Bachelor
2022/2023
Web Searching and Ranging
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Applied Mathematics and Information Science)
Area of studies:
Applied Mathematics and Information Science
Delivered by:
Department of Informatics
When:
4 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
56
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. To master the discipline, students need knowledge gained as a result of studying the disciplines "Machine Learning", "Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics".
Learning Objectives
- Formation of students' theoretical knowledge and practical skills of web search and data ranking.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Knows the technology of evaluation of search quality.
- Able to collect data from web resources.
- Has skills of using direct ranking methods and methods of ranking using machine learning.
Course Contents
- Section 1. Assessment of the quality of information retrieval
- Section 2. Preparation of data for search, request processing
- Section 3. Classical approaches to ranging, application of semantic methods and machine learning
- Section 4. Federated search, click models
Assessment Elements
- Course projectAs a course project, students will be required to implement a project that uses modern web search and ranking methods to solve applied task. Project completion time is 5 weeks.
- ExamThe oral exam is carried out in the form of answers to the questions of the exam ticket. The exam ticket contains two questions from the list of questions for the exam. 2.5 hours are given to prepare the answer.
- Course projectAs a course project, students will be required to implement a project that uses modern web search and ranking methods to solve applied task. Project completion time is 5 weeks.
- ExamThe oral exam is carried out in the form of answers to the questions of the exam ticket. The exam ticket contains two questions from the list of questions for the exam. 2.5 hours are given to prepare the answer.
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 1st module0.5 * Course project + 0.5 * Exam
- 2022/2023 2nd module0.5 * Exam + 0.5 * Course project
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
- Sándor Dominich. The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval (2008), Springer
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Advances in information retrieval: 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014: proceedings. (2014). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06028-6
- Hwee Tou Ng, Mun-Kew Leong, Min-Yen Kan, Donghong Ji. Information Retrieval Technology/Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, Singapore, October 16-18, 2006. Proceedings, 2006, Springer
- 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