[Asis-l] PVC ASIST: The Architecture of Search Engines, Feb 6, 6:30pm, U o f MD

[McNeely, Nichole L]

The Potomac Valley Chapter of the American Society of Information Science
and Technology presents:

The Architecture of Search Engines

Date:       Thursday, February 6, 2003, 6:30pm
Location:  University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, Room 6107 (6th floor)
Fees:       $10 for student members, $18 Members, and $20 Non-members

Registration Deadline:  12pm, Feb. 4th.

Everyone knows the phrase "search engine."  Most people who use search
engines think of them like automobiles  - they make their choices based on
the look and feel of the appearance and published recommendations.  Like
automobiles, though, there are different kinds of engines - and ultimately
it is the engineering that counts.  Different search engines have different
parts, and
they are engineered in different ways.   

If you look under the hood of a BRS, a Google, a Converra or an Oracle
Intermedia engine - will you find the same parts?   Which components come
with the standard search engines?   What flexibility do you have to
customize the parts, or to add new ones? Where do neural networks, topic
maps, thesauri, and translations fit into the engine? What kind of query
processing and matching algorithms fuel the search engine? 

We will look at a logical component model of a search engine.  We will
reverse engineer some of our favorite search engines to gain a better
understanding of how they work today and to see how search engines will
improve in the future.

Speaker:  Dr. Denise Bedford, Thesaurus Project Manager, Information
Solutions Group, World Bank, Washington DC
Associate Faculty Member, Catholic University of America School of Library
and Information Science, Washington DC

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Networking and Dinner: Deli sandwiches and salads.
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Program

Registration:  (If registering after Jan. 29, please email:
mcneely.nichole at hq.navy.mil.)

DEADLINE:  Feb 4th, 2002

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Please print out and mail the form with your check or credit card
information, 
made payable to ASIS&T/PVC. Mail to:

Jon Simons c/o ASIS&T/PVC
10818 Crippen Vale Court, Reston, VA 20194-1419.  

You will receive a confirmation.

Map:  http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/campus_map.html

Directions by car:  http://www.uga.umd.edu/visit/direct.html

Directions by Metro:  http://www.uga.umd.edu/visit/train.html

Parking:  Lot 1, which is west of McKeldin. The other is Regents Drive
Parking Garage (#2).  Both will be free at that time of day. If you enter
campus from Rt. 1 (Baltimore Avenue), you proceed on Campus Drive and follow
the signs for turning right on Regents Drive and proceeding to the Parking
Garage. If you continue west on campus drive, you will eventually run into
lot 1.  

Join us!

For more information:

Nichole McNeely
PVC Chair Elect
Day:  703-695-2258
mailto:mcneely.nichole at hq.navy.mil