CS635: Web Search and Mining A
Autumn 2009

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Administrivia

Instructor
Soumen Chakrabarti
Teaching assistants
Devshree Sane
Time and place
We are in slot 12, Mon, Thu 5--6:25, SIC301 SIC205.
Moodle
Visit the Moodle site for CS635 here.
Assignments
Instead of batched homeworks we will offer one ever-growing log file of homeworks with a separate due date for each problem. To be worked out in small groups of 2--3 students.
Calendar
What topic was covered when.

Resources

Books in decreasing order of use made in this course:

But our main resource will be papers, which will be linked off the course calendar.

Evaluation

Credit students will need to write a midterm (approximately 30%) and a final (approximately 40%) exam, and do a few assignments, typically using Java, Scilab and WEKA (approximately 30%).

Audit students have to write only the final exam and, to pass, their score must be above the bottom 20 percent of the class in finals only.

Eligibility

Mtech1s, DD4s and Btech3s are the primary targets for this course. But it is open to all PG, DD and Btech4 students of all departments subject to department/facad approval. If you are CSE Btech3, ask for my consent by email while citing your CPI and grades in Paradigms and Prob/Stat.