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.

Latest News

2023/01/08: Course website reopens.
2023/02/18: Assignment 1 released.
2023/02/26: Assignment 2 released.
2023/03/05: Assignment 3 released.
2023/03/11: Assignment 4 released.
2023/03/16: Starting from this week, I no longer accept quiz submissions on canvass. Instead, all submissions must be made to me personally, immediately after the class.
2023/03/17: Assignment 5 released.
2023/03/25: Assignment 6 released.
2023/04/03: Assignment 7 released.
2023/04/09: Project description released below. Please start the bidding of your group project topic asap. At the end of the semester, by the deadline of the project report, each member of the group need to submit a peer-review form individually to the TAs as well. Please download the peer-review form below.
2023/04/09: Assignment 8 released.
2023/04/10: Project B of the project description was updated. Please download again.
2023/04/16: Assignment 9 released.
2023/04/29: Assignment 10 released.

Administrative Information

Lectures: Fri 12:55-15:20, 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: Apple Chen and Xukai Wang - SEIEE 03-329
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
Other Research Papers

Assessment:

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

Schedule

Lecture	Date	Topic	Slides	Resources	Homework
1	02/17/2023	Introduction, Boolean Retrieval, Vocabulary	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 1-2	Assignment 1[tex] [pdf]
2	02/24/2023	Tolerant Retrival	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 3	Assignment 2 [tex] [pdf]
3	03/03/2023	Index Construction and Index Compression (I)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 4-5	Assignment 3 [tex] [pdf]
4	03/10/2023	Index Compression (II), Scoring, Term Weighting and Vector Space Model	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 5-6	Assignment 4 [tex] [pdf]
5	03/18/2023	Scoring and Complete Search System, Web Basics (I)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 19, 20	Assignment 5[tex] [pdf]
6	03/25/2023	Web Basics (II)	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 20	Assignment 6 [tex] [pdf]
7	04/1/2023	Link Analysis	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 21	Assignment 7 [tex] [fig] [pdf]
8	04/08/2023	Crawling and Evaluation	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 8	Assignment 8 [tex] [pdf]
9	04/15/2023	Text Classification, Probabilistic Retrieval Model, Language Model	[pdf]	IIR Ch. 10, 11, 12	Assignment 10 [tex] [pdf]
10	04/21/2023	Tutorials	[pdf]
11	04/28/2023	Next Generation Information Retrieval	[pdf]	Refer to slides	Assignment 10 [tex] [pdf]

CS7330 Introduction to Web Search and Mining

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