CS7330 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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2021/2/27: Assignment 1 released.
2021/3/5: Assignment 2 released. Please be careful with your email subject.
2021/3/12: Assignment 3 released.
2021/3/26: Assignment 5 released.
2021/4/3: Assignment 6 released.
2021/4/9: Assignment 7 released.
2021/4/16: Assignment 8 released.
2021/4/16: Project description is released below. Please bid for your choices of topic ASAP and by April 26. Notice that there's a peer review form that each of you need to fill up about your team members after you complete the project. This form needs to be submitted individually to TA by the project deadline. We will schedule a demo of your project some time after June 19. Exact time will be announced here.
2021/4/23: Assignment 8 released.
2021/5/07: Assignment 10 released. Project demo date will be released here soon.

Administrative Information

Lectures: Fri 14:00-16:30, DZY 2-106

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: Qi Jia and Ruolan Yang - SEIEE 03-341 Email: TA email
Office hours: Thursday 4-5 PM

Reference Textbooks:

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

Assessment:

Quizzes: 30%
Assignments: 30%
Group Project: 40% Project Description Peer Review Form

Schedule

Lecture	Date	Topic	Slides	Resources	Homework
1	02/26/2021	Introduction, Boolean Retrieval, Vocabulary	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 1-2	Assignment 1[tex] [pdf]
2	03/05/2021	Tolerant Retrival	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 3	Assignment 2 [tex] [pdf]
3	03/12/2021	Index Construction and Index Compression (I)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 4-5	Assignment 3 [tex] [pdf]
4	03/19/2021	Index Compression (II), Scoring, Term Weighting and Vector Space Model	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 5-6	Assignment 4 [tex] [pdf]
5	04/02/2021	Scoring and Complete Search System, Web Basics (I)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 19, 20	Assignment 5[tex] [pdf]
6	04/17/2021	Web Basics (II)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 20	Assignment 6 [tex] [pdf]
7	04/8/2021	Link Analysis	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 21	Assignment 7 [tex] [pdf]
8	04/16/2021	Evaluation	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 8	Assignment 8 [tex] [pdf]
9	04/23/2021	Query Expansion	[pdf] [video]	IIR Ch. 9	Assignment 9 [tex] [pdf]
10	05/07/2021	Text Classification, Probabilistic Retrieval Model, Language Model	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 10, 11, 12	Assignment 10 [tex] [pdf]

CS7330 Introduction to Web Search and Mining

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