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| Detailed information |
| Original study plan |
Master's programme Computer Science 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| Students are able to analyze, evaluate and employ techniques, tools and frameworks in Web Search and Web Mining.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
Students
- understand the fundamentals of Web Search, eg, crawling, weighting. (K2)
- understand the architecture and components of Search Engines and can evaluate them. (K2, K4, K5)
- are able to analyse, evaluate, configure and employ site search tools and web scrapers. (K3, K4)
- are capable of developing information extraction and opinion mining applications on web content using current frameworks and libraries. (K6)
- understand the principles of question answering systems and chatbots. (K2)
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1) Web Search
- Information Retrieval „in a Nutshell“
- Web Search Challenges
- Search Engines: Google, et al.
- Web Crawling
- Weighting and Ranking: PageRank etc.
- Search Engines Evaluation
- Site Search
- Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Search Engine User Interfaces
- Social Media Search
- Deep Web Search
- Spam and Defacement Detection
- Tools and Applications
2) Web Mining
- Information Extraction „in a Nutshell“
- Web Information Extraction Challenges
- Web Scraping
- Knowledge-based Extraction
- Social Media Mining (microblogs,, etc.), Sentiment Analysis
- Tools and Applications
3) Question Answering & Chatbots
- Approaches and Architectures
- Tools and Applications
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| Criteria for evaluation |
exercises, exam, in-class contribution
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| Methods |
slide presentation (slides on Moodle), exercises (group work)
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| Language |
English |
| Study material |
- Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman: Search Engines – Information Retrieval in Practice, Pearson 2010
- Daniel Jurafsky, James H. Martin: Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Prentice Hall 2000
- Marti A. Hearst: Search User Interfaces, Cambridge University Press 2009
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Corresponding lecture |
INMAWKVWEIR: KV Web Information Retrieval (3 ECTS) bzw. 921INFWWIRK12: KV Web Information Retrieval and Extraction (3 ECTS)
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