verticalsearch

Vertical Search Engine on http://cs.sfu.ca/people/

authoring team

Juhan, Ahmed, Derek

what it does

• [] Scrapes the subdomain http://cs.sfu.ca/people/

• [] Saves scraped pages to files

• [] Parse the files for professor name, education, research and teaching interests, courses taught, and research publications

• [] Save the parsings into a json file

• [] Pass the parsed json to Apache Solr for indexing

• [] Serve front-end interface for user query

• [] Take user query and query Solr for matches

• [] Generate links and snippets for top k results

• [] Return top k results in the interface

• [] Pass name query to http://www.name-list.net

• [] Return interesting name-list.net facts

• [] Show interesting correlations in results

• [] Use Google Maps api on education location strings

• [] Generate location data-points on Google Maps

• [] For single queries, return top k, name-list facts, data-points

• [] For multiple queries, return top k, name-list facts, superposition data-points on map with legend