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Winter 2017 CS293S: Information Retrieval and Web Search

Code: 53355 Time: MW 1-2:50pm Location: Phelps 2510

Instructor:

Tao Yang
Engr Building I Room 5113
Department of Computer Science, UCSB
Email: tyang@cs
Office Hours: Before and after class (MW 12:30-1pm and 2:50-3:20pm. You may stop by Room 5113 anytime)

This course covers advanced topics on information retrieval, web search, and related scalable 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.
• Programming and system support for scalable data processing and online services

Expected Work:

Project/review presentation. Homework assignments. Take-home exams.

Weekly Schedule:

Tentative schedule
Deadlines

References

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

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

• 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 .