Introductory Tutorials

Introductory tutorials require no previous experience with Watson™ Explorer Engine, and are designed to familiarize you with basic aspects of the Watson Explorer Engine software and search engine technology.

Table 1. Introductory Tutorials
Tutorial	Topics	Prerequisites
Tutorial: Using the Watson Explorer Engine Administration Tool	Using the web-based Watson Explorer Engine administration tool efficiently: Using the History Cutting and pasting What is the Repository? Updating, uploading, and importing
Tutorial: Project Basics	Project basics: What are project options? How and when to use options Setting options through CGI parameters	Knowledge of XML and basic Watson Explorer Engine XML syntax is a plus.
Tutorial: Connecting to an Existing Search Engine	Creating a simple connector for meta-searching an outside search engine: Creating a new source Configuring and testing a form Writing and testing a parser	Understanding of how HTML forms work Basic knowledge of XSL or Regular Expressions
Tutorial: Search Engine Introduction	How to use the search engine module: Create a collection Configure a crawl Search a collection Automate a recrawl
Tutorial: Using Metadata for Searching, Sorting, and Filtering	Extracting metadata when crawling and using metadata for searching, sorting, and filtering: Setting up the search collection Extracting metadata Creating a fast index Searching metadata fields Sorting on metadata fields
Tutorial: Graphically Creating and Customizing Displays	Simple customizations of the user interface using the Watson Explorer Engine administration tool: Changing display element locations Changing Fonts Customizing graphics Adding Custom Markup and CSS Customizing Result Sorting	Watson Explorer Engine Administration Tool
Tutorial: Improving Clustering by Adding Knowledge	Improving the quality of the clustering by adding linguistic rules: Stopwords and stop-phrases Synonyms Categories Managing multiple knowledge bases