Information Retrieval and Web Mining

CS276 / LING 286
Information Retrieval and Web Mining
Autumn 2008 [but not all of this site is updated yet....]


Christopher Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan


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Lecture: 3 units, TuTh 4:15-5:30 Gates B01
Section: 0 units, one for each assignment (see the syllabus), time/place TBA.
TAs: Daniel Ramage
Staff e-mail: cs276-aut0809-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Lectures are also available online and on television through SCPD/SITN.

Course Description:

Basic and advanced techniques for text-based information systems: efficient text indexing; Boolean and vector space retrieval models; evaluation and interface issues; Web search including crawling, link-based algorithms, and Web metadata; text/Web clustering, classification; text mining.

Syllabus

Additional Information

Staff Contact Information

Newsgroup: We strongly recommend students to post questions to the course newsgroup su.class.cs276 (instead of sending emails). This forum enables students to discuss the questions they encounter in lectures or assignments. For information about how to access the newsgroup see A Stanford Intro to Usenet .

Email: If you have a question not appropriate for the newsgroup (e.g., one that is only relevant to your situation or one that reveals part of your solution to a homework question), please email the staff mailing list at cs276-aut0809-staff@lists.stanford.edu.

Professor: Christopher Manning
Office: Gates 158
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:00; Thursday 3:00-4:00
Email: manning@cs.stanford.edu

Professor: Prabhakar Raghavan
Office: none on campus
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: pragh@cs..stanford.edu

TA: Daniel Ramage
Office: Gates 114
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30-5:00
Phone: (650)725-6965
Email: email address

Course admin: Debbie Barros
Office: Gates 150
Email: dbarros@cs.stanford.edu

Textbook:


Introduction to Information Retrieval, by C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze. Cambridge University Press.

Available from the Stanford bookstore or other fine retailers. You can also download and print chapters at the book website.

Prerequisites:

CS 103B and CS 107, and any one of CS 121, CS 145, or CS 161, or equivalent background.

Programming experience will be necessary for the two practical exercises.


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