Chinese Search Engine Technology

23 and 30 October 1999

Venue : Unit 811, 8/F, Tower I, Silvercord, 30 Canton Rd., TST, Kowloon

Enquiry : Miss Esther Ma by Tel:23170619

by email: esther@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

1. Basic information retrieval model
   
   
2. Search techniques:
   
   • Ranking algorithms,
     
   • Relevance feedback,
   • Categorization and
   • Performance evaluation
     
     
3. Web-based search engines :
   
   • Unique problems,
   • Spiders,
   • Search techniques and
   • Criteria for evaluation
     
     
4. Chinese Search Engine :
   • Chinese Encoding,
   • Word Segmentation and
   • Keyword Extraction
   • Conceptual Indexing and the related problems
   • Classification and Summarization
     
     
5. Future directions :
   • Collaborative search,
   • Document management
     
     
6. Hands-on lab sessions :
   • Usuage of publicly available search packages
   • Setting up search interface using HTML forms and
   • Developing search functions using Perl-based