Data Mining

Summary

Web search engines; Web resources for Slavic language and area studies; General linguistic resources; Web crawlers.

Homework

HW # 7 (due end of Week 10): Create a Web page devoted to a specific problem with a short description and at least thirty relevant external links. Send the link to your Web page to me.

Look here. Time is running out for your belated homework assignments:

Search Engines

Major search engines

Grokker is particularly interesting as it provides semantic mapping while searching. Not fully functional yet, but highly promissing.

And now the word from Central Committee on how to search effectivelly.

Slavic and East European Resources

UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED SITES FOR RESEARCH, LANGUAGE AND AREA-STUDIES PROGRAMS

Bucknell University – Department of Russian Studies, "Russian History"
Columbia University – East European, Russian & Eurasian National Resource Center
Duke University – Center for Slavic, Eurasian & Eastern European Studies
Georgetown University – Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
Harvard University:

Hokkaido University – Slavic Research Center - Internet Resources for Russian Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington – Russian and East European Institute
Kazan State University – Kazan, Tartarstan
Stanford University – Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
State University of New York, Buffalo – Polish Academic Information Center
University College, London – School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University of Arizona – Middle East Studies Association
University of California, Berkeley – Center for Slavic & East European Studies
University of California, Los Angeles – Center for European & Russian Studies
University of Chicago – Center for East Europe, Russia and Eurasia Studies
University of Illinois – Russian & Eastern European Center
University of Kansas – Russian and East European Studies
University of Michigan – Center for Russian & East European Studies
University of Minnesota – Center for Language Acquisition (CARLA)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
University of Pittsburgh – Center for Russian & East European Studies
University of Texas – Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of Wisconsin – Center for Russian, East European & Central Asia

RUSSIAN/SLAVIC RESEARCH INDEX SITES

Benjamin Sher’s "Russian Index"
Coexistence Resource Centre
East European Elections (laws and results)
Friends and Partner’s Russian Index
Index for Russian Arts compiled by Syeng-Mann Yoo (Ohio State University)
"Resursy WWW po istorii" (in Russian)
"REESWEB" at the University of Pittsburgh

HOME PAGES OF ORGANIZATIONS

Academy for Educational Development (AED)
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
American Councils for International Education
American Romanian Accademy of Arts and Sciences (ARA-AS)
Center for American-Eurasian Studies and Relations
Centre for Serbian Language and Culture
The Civic Education Project (CEP)
Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
Glendale Community College Russian Club
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)
SIL International (formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics)
Slavic and East European Folklore Association
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
World Learning

Linguistic resources

Web crawlers

Take a look at this list of search engines and crawlers.

Black Widow

Retrieval of More Complex Information

Take a look at the Text Analysis page

Example

Last year's example project