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Lecture slides and references for CS290N (Tentative, and to be updated)

Most of materials are available on-line. If you are not able to access some reference, let us know. We will update this site periodically based on the pace of class presentation and the feedback from you.

Week 1

• Introduction (updated 3/29/10).

• Grading and Project Ideas (updated 3/29/10).

• Search Engines (updated 3/29/10).

• Boolean and vector space retrieval model (updated 3/29/10).

• Tokenization and indexing (updated 4/9/10).

Week 2

• Compression. (updated 4/9/10)

• Index construction (updated 4/12/10).

• Zone weighting (updated 4/12/10).

• Weight learning.

Week 3/4

• Evaluation. (updated 4/12)
• Crawler in Search Engines (updated 4/16/10).
• Link analysis and anchor text. If interested, we will also discuss matrix computation for link analysis.
• Topics on search engines (anti-spamming, duplicate detection). (updated 4/16)

Week 5/6

• MapReduce for large-scale data processing . Similarity .
• Research paper/project proposal presentation.

Week 7/8

• Basic Classification Techniques.
• Classification with SVM.
• Dimension reduction and SVD computation.

Week 9/10

• Question answering systems.
• Clustering.
• Recommendation.
• Information extraction.