Knowledge Technologies

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

120 hours

One of the following:

None

None

433-352 Data on the Web

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Much of the world's knowledge is stored in the form of unstructured data (e.g. text) or implicitly in structured data (e.g. databases). In this subject students will learn algorithms and data structures for extracting, retrieving and storing explicit knowledge from various data sources, with a focus on the web. Topics include: data encoding and markup, web crawling, clustering, regular expressions, pattern mining, Bayesian learning, instance-based learning, document indexing, database storage and indexing, and text retrieval.

On completion of the subject, students should be able to:

• Describe and apply the fundamentals of knowledge systems, including data acquisition and aggregation, knowledge extraction, text retrieval, machine learning and data mining

• Project work during semester, expected to take about 36 hours (30%)
• A mid-semester test (10%)
• And a 2-hour end-of-semester written examination (60%)

To pass the subject, students must obtain at least:

• 50% overall
• 15/30 in project work
• And 35/70 in the mid-semester test and end-of-semester written examination combined.

TBA

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.