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. Association for Computing Machinery (Hong Kong Chapter) and

2. I.T. Training Centre, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Course Description :

To many people, search engines are indispensable tools for finding information on the Internet. Search engines are big businesses too. They are the key element in building large portals. Because of the wide impact of search engines, it is important for web users to understand the underlying technologies, especially for companies who want to introduce search features on their intranets or build portal businesses around search engines.

Objective :

1. Present the key technologies behind web-based search engines, including problems and features that are unique in a web environment.

2. Provide attendees with the knowledge and skills behind the design of Chinese search engines.

Who should Attend ?

This course is designed for I.T. managers, Internet information providers, librarians and software managers; especially those who have plans to enter the Chinese (or broadly speaking Asian) internet market.

Special Features :

There will be two hand-on sessions on the building of Seach Engine using publicly avaliable packages and code. Who should Attend ? This course is designed for I.T. managers, Internet information providers, librarians and software managers; especially those who have plans to enter the Chinese (or broadly speaking Asian) internet market.

Course Content

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

HK$5000/person which includes handouts, two lunches, coffee, refreshment and a certificate of course attendance.

NTTS Approval

This course is pre-approved by the New Technology Training Scheme (NTTS), 75% of the course fee can be reimbursed for those attendees who satisfy the NTTS requirements.

Special Discount :

ACM members, students and alumni of The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong will receive a 10 % discount.

Local ACM-HK professional members will enjoy a further HK$200 discount.

Special discount HK$1500/person for postgraduates on remaining vacancies is now on offer.

Completion Certificate :

A Certificate of Attendance will be presented to each attendee who successfully completes the course.

Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Chinese University. He is the co-editor of the special issues on "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages" of the Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages and has numerous publications on Chinese Information System. He also chairs many international conferences on Chinese language computing and information retrieval. He is a committee member on the advisory board of the project "Si Ku Quan Shu" - an electronic Chinese ancient encyclopedia.

Dr. Dik Lun Lee (UST)

Dr. Lee is a Reader of the Computer Science Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has a number of publications on Information Retrieval and Search Engine techniques. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on Information Retrieval. He is one of the pioneers in the construction of a Chinese Search Engine in Hong Kong, http://deer.cs.ust.hk:9000/.

his time table is subject to change to accomodate the need of the lecturers.

Day One (9am-6pm)
by Dr. Dik Lee

Day Two (9am - 6pm)
by Dr. K.F.Wong

About the CDROM

This multimedia CDROM is an edited video record of our successful short course on the same topic run on 23 and 30 October 1999. The course was designed for I.T. managers, internet information providers, librarians and software managers; especially those who have plans to enter the Chinese (or broadly speaking Asian) internet market. To satisfy the need of those professionals who were unable to attend the course, ACM-HK produced this set of CDROMs. This CDROM set contains roughly 8 hours of lecture recorded using the latest MPEG-4 technology.

Special Features on this CDROM

A complete copy of a public domain search package plus many useful CGI scripts for handling Chinese HTML pages.

Price (Postal inclusive)

Single copy for personal use.

Non-member: HK$500/copy
ACM member: HK$450/copy
ACM (Hong Kong Chapter) local Professional Member: HK$400/copy

Institutional/Company copy for multiple users.

HK$1000/copy.

Sample Clips

A sample 5 miniutes version in zip format is available for free download at site1 or site2.

Order

Please complete the order form at http://www.acm.org.hk/activity/sc/csheng/orderform.html.