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C. Lee GilesDavid Reese Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Graduate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Courtesy Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST441
Information Retrieval and Search EnginesIST 441
Introduction to course and search engines
Course homepage• Everything you need to know about the course
– http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/IST441– Or put IST441 into Google
• Project• Exercises• Readings• Schedule• Participation• Exam
Professor C. Lee Giles• Intelligent and specialty search engines; cyberinfrastructure for science, academia and
government; big data
– Modular, scalable, robust, automatic science and technology focused cyberinfrastructure and search engine creation and maintenance
– Large heterogeneous data and information systems
– Specialty science and technology search engines for knowledge discovery & integration
• CiteSeerx (all scholarly documents – focus on computer science)
• ChemXSeer (e-chemistry portal)
• CollabSeer (collaboration search)
• CSSeer (expert finding)
• Scalable intelligent tools/agents/methods/algorithms
– Information, knowledge and data integration
– Information and metadata extraction; entity recognition
– Chemical formulae & names, tables, and figures
– Unique search, knowledge discovery, information integration, data mining algorithms
– Expert and collaboration recommendation
– Research evaluation
http://clgiles.ist.psu.edu
What will be covered• What is information
– How much is there?
• Properties of text– Documents models
• Information retrieval (IR) systems and methods– Query structures– Evaluation and Relevance– Role of the user– Vector models– Inverted index
What will be covered• Search engines as IR systems and how they work
– Indexers– Crawlers– Ranking– Evaluation– SEO
• Internet and Web– Web structure
• Semantic search• Google and link analysis• Social networks
Approach• Readings and Lectures
– Exercises– One exam– Participation
• Projects– Build 2 specialty search engines for a customer
• Customer defines the project– Built with Nutch, YouSeer, Lucid Works (based on Solr/Lucene)– Who uses Lucene– Build a Google Custom Search Engine
» Comparison of these two
– Customer receives (reviews) search engine at the end of the semester– Presentation on search engines built– Report on search engine due at end of semester
• Undergrads vs grads• Guest seminars
manyeyes visualization
Web search engine use has new activities
Pew Internet & American Life Internet Project Survey: 2009
PewInternet
Search Engine Market Share
Dec 2012 2 billion internet users
2012
ComScore global share
Number of search engine queries - US
About billion per day
Students who took this course• Google• Yahoo• Microsoft• Facebook• RIT• IBM• Tencent• Klout• eBay• Raytheon• Lockheed Martin• …
