Interesting Links
Tools and Techniques
- Peter Norvig, How to Write a Spelling Corrector
- Peter Norvig, Natural Language Corpus Data
- Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval
Funny/Interesting Stories
- For Search, Facebook Had to Go Beyond ‘Robospeak’
- David Segal, The Dirty Little Secrets of Search (SEO manipulation: the J. C. Penney case)
- Brian Hayes, More on IBM Watson
- IBM DeepQA Team, IBM Watson at Jeopardy!, Building Watson, Selecting language nuances, Watson as a NLP system
- Google claims Bing is copying the search results: The New York Times Story, SearchEngineLand.com Story, Google Claim, Microsoft Reply
- Seth Freeman, Me and My Algorithm
- Brian Hayes, Googling the lexicon
- Google, Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched
- Bing Rankings Cheat Sheet
Research Articles
- IBM DeepQA Team, Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
- Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (web version)
Coding in Python
- Python Documentation
- Python Tutorial
- C. H. Swaroop, Python Notes
- Allen B. Downey, Think Python How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- A Quick Python Tutorial
WhoWhenWhere
- Professor: Eli Upfal
- Professor: Tim Kriska
- HTA: Matt Mahoney
- UTA: David Storch
- GTA: Ahmad Mahmoody
- Spring 2013