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
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.