11-742 Search Engines

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This lectureoriented course studies the theory, design, and implementation of textbased search engines. The core components include statistical characteristics of text, representation of information needs and documents, several important retrieval models, and experimental evaluation. The course also covers common elements of commercial search engines, for example, integration of diverse search engines into a single search service federated search, vertical search, personalized search results, and diverse search results. The software architecture components include design and implementation of largescale, distributed search engines. This is a fullsemester course. The graduate sections 11642 and 11742 are worth 12 units. The undergraduate section 11442 is worth 9 units.

Prerequisites: none listed

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