Design and implementation of search for the Scratch Online Community
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967666601-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Wyrobnik, David J. (David Joseph)
Advisor(s)
Mitchel Resnick.
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The Scratch Online Community has been experiencing rapid growth and has around 9.5 million users and 12.5 million shared projects today. This exponential growth introduces a need for a new Search infrastructure that will enable users to find and discover more relevant projects, while allowing the Scratch team to control the ranking of search results. This thesis presents a complete Search system that will be deployed on the Scratch website and a novel visual tool named FIRST (Fast Iterative Relevance Search Tool) that aids in the process of defining a useful relevance function for Search.
Description
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 52).
Subjects
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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