Problem Description:
Your assignment is to implement the PageRank method for computing the popularity of a document using the test documents in the course directory. Assume that any reference to a four digit number is a link to the document representing that course. Your program should be able to determine if the four digit number refers to a COSC course or a MATH course.
Your program should compute and output the link probability matrix formed by the documents. The output should be written to a text file. Your program should then input the teleport probability α from the user along with the desired number of iterations. Afterwards, your program should display the page rank of each document using the input teleport probability and input number of iterations. The documents should be displayed in sorted (decreasing) order based on the computed popularity.
Your program should prompt for the following input:
- Directory containing input files
- Location of the output file
- Teleport probability
- Number of iterations
Note: It is not necessary to combine this program with the earlier retrieval programs.