Search Engines for Web and Enterprise Data

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to index documents using inverted files. 2) How to perform update and deletion on inverted files.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to use Extended Boolean Model to rank documents. 2) How to evaluate conjunctive and disjunctive queries using Extended Boolean Model.

In this module, you will learn: (1) The history and evolution of link-based ranking methods. 2) How to determine query/document similarities using HyPursuit, WISE, and PageRank. 3) Possible extensions that can be applied to Pagerank.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to calculate hub and authority scores of web documents using HITS algorithm. 2) Understand the re-ranking process involved in HITS algorithm.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to evaluate retrieval effectiveness of an information retrieval using Precision, Recall, F-Measure, Average-Precision, DCG, and NDCG. 2) What are the subjective relevance measures to be used on an information retrieval system.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to use the TREC collection for benchmarking. 2) The characteristics of the TREC collection.

In this module, you will learn: (1) What is stemming. 2) Different Content-Sensitive and Context-Free stemming algorithms. 3) How to calculate Successor Variety and Entropy for stemming.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to perform document space modification using relevance feedback. 2) How to perform query modification using relevance feedback.

In this module, you will learn: (1) Relative preference is more useful than absolute preference in personalization. 2) The importance of eye-tracking user study in personalized web search. 3) How to model preferences as a weighted vector.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to calculate discrimination value for index term selection. 2) The importance of word usage in documents in search engine design.

In this module, you will learn: (1) How to use collocated terms in lieu of strict phrases in search. 2) How to identify collocated terms using Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI). 3) How to utilize N-grams for search.

In this module, you will learn: (1) The challenges of enterprise search. 2) The differences between web search and enterprise search.