CS290N: Web Search and Advanced Internet Services
Spring 2012. New time: TR 11-12:50pm. New location: Phelp 2510.
Instructor:
Tao Yang
Engr Building I Room 5113
Department of Computer Science, UCSB
Email: tyang@cs.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: TR 1-2 (HFN Room 5113 or stop by anytime).
This course covers advanced topics on Internet search and information systems, which includes
search engines and advertisements, web crawling, indexing and data serving, ranking and recommendation,
user behavior analysis. This course will also cover system and middleware support
for building related large-scale Internet services.
TA:
Xun Tang (xtang@cs)
Topics:
- Search engines
- Crawling, indexing and data compression
- User behavior analysis and data analytics.
- Ranking, classification, and recommendation.
- Search advertisement.
- Programming and system support for data processing
- Online systems and caching support
Expected Work:
Project
/take-home exam/paper appraisal.
Weekly Schedule:
Tentative plan.
References
- [MRS] Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze,
Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
Book website .
HTML edition of the book here.
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[CMS] Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman,
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2010.
Book website .
Other References
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto,
Modern Information Retrieval (second edition), Addison-Wesley, 2011.
Book website .
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Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan Buettcher, Gordon V. Cormack,
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press
Book website .