Web Search and Mining
CS610, Spring 2007

Administrivia

Instructor

Soumen Chakrabarti

Teaching assistants

Abhishek Agarwal, abhisheka@it.iitb.ac.in; Manish Gupta, ; Amit Phatak,

Time and place

Tue+Fri 6:35--8pm, SIC301 (first lecture on Fri 2007/01/05)

Course newsgroup

Watch jeeves.cse (internal access).

Prerequisites

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

Evaluation

• Internal and informal course evaluation form. Please fill and email to your TA whenever and as often as you wish!
• Homeworks HW1, HW2
• The final allocation of credit is: HW1 -- 10%, HW2 -- 15%, midterm -- 30%, final -- 45%.
• Grades have been posted (Spreadsheet with details, PDF with final grades only) and frozen Sat May 5 afternoon.

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.
• Manning, C., Raghavan, P., and Schutze, H. (2007). An Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press.

Supplementary books

• Witten, I. H., Moffat, A., and Bell, T. C. (1999). Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images. Morgan-Kaufman.
• Grossman, D. A. and Frieder, O. (1998). Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics. Kluwer.

Additional material

• Slides by Prabhakar Raghavan (internal access only).

Calendar

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