Syllabus

• Syllabus .
• Tentative schedule.

Textbook and Other Rerences

• Main text Modern Information Retrieval, by Richardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. (site at Brazil)
  A U.S. mirror site is at www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/.

• An Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze, August 2006.
• Information Retrieval, by Van Rijsbergen, available on-line www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html.
• Automatic Text Processing by Gerard Salton, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
• Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW, by Richard K. Below, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanders, Brokers, and Bots, by Fah-Chun Cheong, New Riders Publishers, 1996.
• Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
• Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery, by Krzysztof Cios, Witold Pedrycz, Roman Swiniarski, Kluwer, 1998.
• Information Storage and Retrieval, by Robert R. Korfhage, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Lecture Notes

• Introduction to Inormation Retrieval PowerPoint, PDF and PDF for printing
• Web Serach -- Introduction PowerPoint, PDF and PDF for printing

Programming Project Assignments

• An exercise to develop team guidelines for your team.
  Read the Team Work Guidelines for references
  Assigned: Friday, August 25th
  Due: Wednesday, August 30th
  
• Programming Project Part One.
  Assigned: Monday, August 28th
  Due: Wednesday, September 13th
  

Some Code Examples

• A Java server example
• A C server and client example
• A Java client example
• Some implemenations of Porter's algorithm
• Example of extracting URLs from a web page

Important research papers

• The Google architecture paper, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", 7th IWWW Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 14-18 April 1998.
• David Gibson, Jon Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan Inferring Web Communities from Link Topology, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1998.
• Mei Kobayashi and Koichi Takeda, "Information Retrieval on the Web", ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2), pp. 144-173, 2000.
• Raymond Kosala and Hendrik Blockeel, "Web Mining Research: A survey", SIGKDD Explorations, July 2000, 2(1), pp. 1-15.
• Z. Wu, W. Meng, C. Yu, and Z. Li, "Towards a highly-scalable and effective metasearch engine", WWW10, 2001.
• Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Monina, "Building a distributed full-text index for the Web", WWW10, 2001.
• Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron E. Dom, David Gibson, Jon Kleinbeig, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan and Andrew Tomkins, "Mining the Link Structure of the World Wide Web", WWW10, 2001.
• R. Srikant and Y. Yang, "Mining Web log to improve Website organization", WWW10, 2001.
• L. Finkelstein, E. Gabrilovich, Y. Matias, E. Rivlin, Z. Solan, G. Wolfman, and E. Ruppin, "Placing search in context: The concept revisited".
• D. Haines and W. Bruce Croft, "Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks",

Some Resource Links:

• Web and Information Retreival teaching sites
• ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
• On-line textbook on Information Retrieval by C. J. van Rijsbergen (1979)
• Information Retrieval Links
• UMass Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
• World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Web Robots Pages
• Search Engine Watch
• Search Tools for Web Sites
• History of Search Engines
• Bibliography on Zipf's Law
• Web IR and IE
• Reading List on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
• Repository of Online Information Sources Used in Information Extraction Tasks
• Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization
• Recommender Systems Links
• List of International World Wide Web Conferences
• Information about database and the web

Academic Responsibility

Students are expected to read and abide by the principles clearly explained in the Student Handbook. Under no circumstance, should any student submit work that is not of his or her authorship. If a deadline is tight, or impossible, before getting desperate, talk to your instructor. It is better to be late than dishonest. Remember that your instructor's main goal is to give you nothing but the best opportunities to learn.

The Computer Science department also has an Academic Responsibility policy posted on the department website under student information. Please read this policy carefully.

Your instructor will make every effort to explain in detail the collaboration policy for each specific assignment. Before you start your work, make sure to read and understand this policy. Should any questions arise, contact your instructor immediately to have them clarified.