The last time I blogged about a new course I’m fol­low­ing at my uni­ver­sity. This course, held by Pasquale Lops and Gio­vanni Semer­aro, is very inter­est­ing at the point that I’ll be devel­op­ing a custom infor­ma­tion retrieval engine as part of my intern­ship project. I can’t tell much more at this point since the intern­ship haven’t started yet and I’m not sure I can release more details about this project (we’re still in the process of decid­ing if and how the whole thing will be released to the world).

In the mean­time, I’ve been doing sev­eral exper­i­ments on this topic mostly about the memory usage and the per­for­mances of such system on lim­ited hard­ware. This prac­ti­cally means imple­ment­ing the algo­rithms you’ll be using and mea­sur­ing the com­pu­ta­tional time they require.

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