---

Winter 2015 CS290N: Information Retrieval and Advanced Internet Services

Code: 09654 Time: MW 3-4:50pm Location: Phelps 2510

Instructor:

Tao Yang
Engr Building I Room 5113
Department of Computer Science, UCSB
Email: tyang@cs.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: MW 4:50-5:50pm (HFN Room 5113. You may stop by anytime).

This course covers advanced topics on information retrieval, web search and information systems. The topics include search engines and advertisements, web crawling, classification, indexing and data serving, ranking and recommendation, user behavior analysis, and online services. This course will also cover system and middleware support for building related large-scale Internet services.

Topics:

• Information retrieval and search engines. Open-source systems.
• 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/review presentation. Take-home exams. Homework Exercises.

Weekly Schedule:

Tentative schedule.
Deadlines.

Text book

• [CMS] Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2010. Book website .

• [MRS] Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. HTML edition of the book here.

Other References

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval (second edition), Addison-Wesley, 2011. Book website .

• Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan Buettcher, Gordon V. Cormack, Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press Book website .