F033583 Introduction to Web Search and Mining

Course Summary

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the largest source of open-domain information today. The popularization of the web has revolutionized the way people search and retrieve information. This course presents the fundamental theory and practice behind web search engines and introduce some basic techniques to extract information and mine knowledge from the web, with an emphasis on text documents. After learning from this course, you should be able to understand the basic internals of a web search engine, and perhaps build a small search engine of yourself. On the other hand, you should get enough hands-on experience to write a crawler to extract data from the web and do various data analytics on the acquired data.

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Administrative Information

Lectures: Fri 14:00-16:30, DZY 1-107

Instructor: Kenny Zhu - SEIEE 03-407 Phone: 3420-4592 Email: kzhu@cs.sjtu.edu.cn
Office hours: by appointment via email or ask after class

Teaching Assistant: Zilu Guo and Sophie Zhang - SEIEE 03-329, Email: mclgzl1996@126.com and sophie_zhang@sjtu.edu.cn
Office hours: Thursday 4-5 PM

Reference Textbooks:

  1. Introduction to Information Retrieval, Jul 7, 2008, by Christopher D. Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan
  2. Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search (2nd Edition), by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
  3. Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data Hardcover - October 23, 2002, by Soumen Chakrabarti
  4. Web Information Retrieval (Data-Centric Systems and Applications), Aug 30, 2013, by Stefano Ceri and Alessandro Bozzon
  5. Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents, and Usage Data (Data-Centric Systems and Applications), Aug 6, 2013, by Bing Liu

Assessment:

  1. Quizzes: 30%
  2. Assignments: 30%
  3. Group Project: 40% Project Description Peer Review Form

Schedule

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