Web Search and Mining
Spring 2006

Administrivia

Instructor

Soumen Chakrabarti

Teaching assistant

Kuldeep Gharat, and Kriti Puniyani,

Time and place

Slot 13, Mon+Thu 6:30--8pm, SI-C301 (first lecture on Thu 2006/01/05)

Course newsgroup

Watch both jeeves.cse and news.cc (internal access); seems like these don't sync up.

Prerequisites

Undergrad algebra, calculus, probability, statistics, data structures, algorithms, databases are mandatory. CS705 is strongly recommended.

Evaluation

• Watch this password-protected spreadsheet.
• HW1
• HW2
• HW3
• HW4
• Project ideas

Course material

Primary books

• Baeza-Yates, R. and Ribeiro-Neto, B. (1999). Modern Information Retrieval. Pearson Education.
• Chakrabarti, S. (2002). Mining the Web: Discovering knowledge from hypertext data. Morgan-Kaufman.
• Witten, I. H., Moffat, A., and Bell, T. C. (1999). Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. Morgan-Kaufman.

Supplementary books

• Grossman, D. A. and Frieder, O. (1998). Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics. Kluwer.

Additional material

Calendar

What material we studied and when, Helpful for revising before exams.