ACM Seminar - Text Indexing

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Jayprasad J. Hegde Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu Blah blah blah....

Abstract: Ever wondered how Search Engines are able to search for a word in their maddeningly-huge collection of documents? The answer is simple - they use Indices. Indices are surrogates for documents, which are optimised for such search operations. In this seminar, we'll look at issues which play a big role in the choice of not only the approach chosen, but also the method used in construction. The seminar will wind-up with a look at Google's method of constructing indices.

About the Speaker: Jayprasad J. Hegde (or "JJ" as he's fondly known) is a Scientist at NCST. He is currently interested in Information Retrieval - and this has nothing to do with what cops do with thugs - and also Machine Translation. He also happens to be the Chair of the ACM Mumbai chapter.