CS 276B / LING 239J
Web Search and Mining
Winter 2005

Course Syllabus

CM = Christopher Manning
PR = Prabhakar Raghavan
LE = Louis Eisenberg

All lectures and review sessions are in Gates B12.
Lectures are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:30.

Details of the schedule, slides and reading lists will be updated as the quarter progresses. Assignment dates are subject to change.

Date	Topics	Notes	Who	Readings	Assignments
Tue 4 Jan	Web 1: What makes the web different. Web search overview, web structure, the user, paid placement, search engine optimization/spam.	[pdf] [PPT]	PR	Bibliography containing numerous relevant papers
Thu 6 Jan	Course overview and project practicum 1	[pdf] [PPT]	staff
Tue 11 Jan	Information extraction 1	[pdf] [PPT]	CM		Initial project proposal due
Thu 13 Jan	Project practicum 2: Overview and deliverables	[pdf] [PPT]	LE
Tue 18 Jan	Recommendation systems 1	[pdf] [PPT]	CM		Project overview due
Thu 20 Jan	Recommendation systems 2; students present project plans	[pdf] [PPT] [pdf] [PPT]	CM; staff
Tue 25 Jan	Students present project plans	[pdf] [PPT]	staff		Problem set 1 out [pdf] [doc] Proposal for paper appraisal due
Thu 27 Jan	Web 2: Spidering web content	[pdf] [PPT]	PR		Confirm paper for appraisal
Tue 1 Feb	Information extraction 2	[pdf] [PPT]	CM		Block 1 due
Thu 3 Feb	Web 3: Link analysis	[pdf] [PPT]	PR	Minhash slides: [pdf] [PPT]	Problem set 1 due
Tue 8 Feb	Text mining 1	[pdf] [PPT]	CM
Thu 10 Feb	Web 4: Scoring and ranking	[pdf] [PPT]	PR		Paper appraisal due
Tue 15 Feb	Midterm to be held in-class	[pdf]	staff
Thu 17 Feb	XML 1: Basics	[pdf] [PPT]	PR		Block 2 due
Tue 22 Feb	Text mining 2	[pdf] [PPT]	CM
Thu 24 Feb	Text mining 3	[pdf] [PPT]	CM		Problem set 2 out
Tue 1 Mar	XML 2: IR vs. structured retrieval	[pdf] [PPT]	PR
Thu 3 Mar	No class
Tue 8 Mar	Project presentations		staff		Problem set 2 due
Thu 10 Mar	Project presentations		staff		Block 3 (final project report) due

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