Syllabus

• Syllabus .
• Tentative schedule.
• Here is an example of in-line image.

Textbook and Other Rerences

• Main text Modern Information Retrieval, by Richardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. (site at Brazil)
  A U.S. mirror site is at www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/.

• An Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze, August 2006.
• Information Retrieval, by Van Rijsbergen, available on-line www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html.
• Automatic Text Processing by Gerard Salton, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
• Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW, by Richard K. Below, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanders, Brokers, and Bots, by Fah-Chun Cheong, New Riders Publishers, 1996.
• Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
• Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery, by Krzysztof Cios, Witold Pedrycz, Roman Swiniarski, Kluwer, 1998.
• Information Storage and Retrieval, by Robert R. Korfhage, John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Some Code Examples

• A Java server example
• A C server and client example
• A Java client example
• Some implemenations of Porter's algorithm
• An implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm
• Another implementation of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm, the core "computerPrefix()" is from Prof. Eppstin of UC Irvine.

Important research papers

• The Google architecture paper, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", 7th IWWW Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 14-18 April 1998.
• David Gibson, Jon Kleinberg, Prabhakar Raghavan Inferring Web Communities from Link Topology, Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1998.
• Mei Kobayashi and Koichi Takeda, "Information Retrieval on the Web", ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2), pp. 144-173, 2000.
• Raymond Kosala and Hendrik Blockeel, "Web Mining Research: A survey", SIGKDD Explorations, July 2000, 2(1), pp. 1-15.
• Z. Wu, W. Meng, C. Yu, and Z. Li, "Towards a highly-scalable and effective metasearch engine", WWW10, 2001.
• Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Monina, "Building a distributed full-text index for the Web", WWW10, 2001.
• Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron E. Dom, David Gibson, Jon Kleinbeig, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan and Andrew Tomkins, "Mining the Link Structure of the World Wide Web", WWW10, 2001.
• R. Srikant and Y. Yang, "Mining Web log to improve Website organization", WWW10, 2001.
• L. Finkelstein, E. Gabrilovich, Y. Matias, E. Rivlin, Z. Solan, G. Wolfman, and E. Ruppin, "Placing search in context: The concept revisited".
• D. Haines and W. Bruce Croft, "Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks",

Some Resource Links:

• Web and Information Retreival teaching sites
• ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
• On-line textbook on Information Retrieval by C. J. van Rijsbergen (1979)
• Information Retrieval Links
• UMass Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
• World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Web Robots Pages
• Search Engine Watch
• Search Tools for Web Sites
• History of Search Engines
• Bibliography on Zipf's Law
• Web IR and IE
• Reading List on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
• Repository of Online Information Sources Used in Information Extraction Tasks
• Bibliography on Automated Text Categorization
• Recommender Systems Links
• List of International World Wide Web Conferences
• Information about database and the web