CSCI 335 (Web Information Retrieval) -- Xiannnong Meng

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CSCI 335: Web Information Retrieval

Fall 2006--Xiannong Meng

This is CSCI335: Fall 2006 Web Information Retrieval, on-line courseware. The web pages are constantly evolving. Please re-visit us often. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send mail to me. Thank you very much.

Syllabus

Syllabus .
Tentative schedule.
Here is an example of in-line image.

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/.

Other reference books include

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

Some Code Examples

A Java server example
A C server and client example
A Java client example
Some implemenations of Porter's algorithm
An implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
Another implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, the core "computerPrefix()" is from Prof. Eppstin of UC Irvine.

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:

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