Course

  • 70% coursework
    • Coursework 1: 10%
      • Build your first search engine
      • Due Week 5
    • Coursework 2: 20%
      • IR Evaluation, Text classification
      • Due Week 11
    • Group Project 40% (5-6 people)
      • A full running search engine
      • You have to actually launch a website - this will be fucking sick.
      • It has to be fast, it has to handle test cases etc.
      • Think multiple languages.
      • Try and recreate the google.com etc.? Like AI generated summaries etc.
        • Make an app?
        • Optimise it for mobile
      • Live indexing
      • What happens if you get a query that’s 500 words long?
      • What happens if your query is part english part chinese?
      • What if you receive multiple queries at the same time?
        • They’re going to get 2 markers to submit queries as fast as possible at the same time and see how your system reacts
      • What if you don’t receive words (e.g. DNA strands)
      • Due Week 9 Sem2
  • 30% in exam

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