CS297 Proposal
Improving Yioop! User Search Data Usage
Tarun Pepira Ramaswamy(tarun.pepira@gmail.com)
Advisor: Dr. Chris Pollett
Description:
One of Dr.Pollett's previous student, Vijaya Pamidi, wrote a Firefox extension which captures URL's visited in Firefox
and sends these to the Yioop Search Engine. One of the disadvantages of this extension is its lack of user benefit for
sending the data to Yioop leading to non usage of this extension. Also, relevance of the URL data from this extension
is computed in an ad hoc way.
My project will add a visualization feature to this Firefox extension encouraging the users to use this extension. The
vizualation will show the user navigation across the visited URL's providing some user benefit. My project will also
implement a more theoretically sound way of computing relevance for this data, based on modern web reputation systems.
Currently, the user clicked URL's from the Yioop search result page is not being tracked. A last goal of this project
will be to track these URL's clicks and incorporate them in the index.
Schedule:
| Week 1: Aug.23-Aug.27 | Write CS 297 Proposal |
| Week 2: Aug.30-Sept.3 | Learn to build the Firefox extension |
| Week 3: Sept.6-Sept.10 | Build a Simple Firefox Extension |
| Week 4: Sept.13-Sept.17 | Update the Firefox Extension with Preference pane |
| Week 5: Sept.20-Sept.24 | [Deliverable 1 due] Experiment with pulling the history data |
| Week 6: Sept.27-Oct.1 | Learn SVG/Canvas to display data points |
| Week 7: Oct.4-Oct.8 | Experiment with SVG/Canvas to display data |
| Week 8: Oct.11-Oct.15 | Display control flow across URLs |
| Week 9: Oct.18-Oct.22 | [Deliverable 2 due] Create a simple graphical view of the history data |
| Week 10: Oct.25-Oct.29 | Experiment with user clicks on search result page |
| Week 11: Nov.1-Nov.5 | Implement to add user clicks in the Search Result Page |
| Week 12: Nov.8-Nov.12 | Deliverable 3 due] Study the current indexing of Yioop |
| Week 13: Nov.15-Nov.19 | Study the new indexing techniques to be used for User data |
| Week 14: Nov.22-Nov.26 | [Deliverable 4 due] Propose a better indexing technique for th User data |
| Week 15: Nov.29-Dec.3 | Write CS 297 Report |
| Week 16: Dec.6-Dec.10 | Deliverable 5 due |
Deliverables:
The full project will be done when CS298 is completed. The following will
be done by the end of CS297:
1. Creating a simple Firefox extension and adding a preference pane
2. Study and create a simple graphical view of the history data
3. Update the code to use the user clicks in search result page
4. Study and propose a better way of indexing the user search data
5. A CS297 report
References:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension
[RANDY2010]Building Web Reputation Systems: By Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass, March 2010
[AMY2006]Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings: by Amy N. Langville and Carl D. Meyer
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Canvas
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