Computer Science 221: Information Retrieval:

Assignment Final Project

Fall 2008

Department of Informatics

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

University of California, Irvine

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Due Finals Week

  1. Put all your assignments together
    1. Take your Firefox extension, your posting list, your rapid cosine query algorithm and put it all together into an application that shows you relevant wikipedia content as you are browsing the web.
      1. This will probably require that you incorporate your rapid cosine scoring algorithm into a web server.
      2. The firefox extension will create a query from the browsed pages.
      3. Ask your web server for relevant content using the query.
      4. Your web server returns links from the crawl database.
      5. Your Firefox extension puts the links in the sidebar.
  2. Evaluation
    1. Write a summary description of how you accomplished this assignment, focussing on what the pieces you used were.
      1. This is your chance to show off your design decisions and tell us what extra things you did to make it work.
      2. For example:
        1. How much crawl data did you use?
        2. Was it your crawl data or someone elses?
        3. DId you implement any special data structures to make this work with lots of data?
        4. How did you convert the currently browsed web page into a query?
        5. What did you decide to show in the sidebar?
        6. etc...
    2. Demo your program working in person.
  3. Due Date: Demos will be held any time, by appointment during finals week.
  4. You may work in groups of 2 for this project.