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| Week | Date | Topic | Readings | Person in charge, Deadlines, Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/13 | Intro to course | Add/Drop management | |
| 1/15 | Intro to Web mining | Chapter 1 | Fil; Scheduling & assignment of papers | |
| 2 | 1/20 | Supervised learning (text classifiers) | Chapter 3 | Fil |
| 1/22 | NB: L98, McCN98 | Xiaoyi | ||
| 3 | 1/27 | SVM: H+98, J98, B98 | Jiayi | |
| 1/29 | Text classification: YP97, YL99 | Pulan | ||
| 4 | 2/3 | Unsupervised learning (clustering & communities) | Chapter 4 | Fil; Project proposal (1 page) & online page(s) for project due |
| 2/5 | Doc clusters: HP96, ZE98 | Huina | ||
| 5 | 2/10 | Communities: FLG02, FC08 | Dimitar | |
| 2/12 | Duplicates: BBDH00, CSG-M00 | Chintan T. | ||
| 6 | 2/17 | Information retrieval & Web search | Chapter 6 | Fil |
| 2/19 | LSI: DDFLH90, DLL96 | Amit | ||
| 7 | 2/24 | PageRank: BP98, FBFMxx | Prashant | |
| 2/26 | Bias: CR04, FMFV06 | Chris | ||
| 8 | 3/3 | Link analysis (Web graph) | Chapter 7 | Fil |
| 3/5 | HITS 1: K99, CDKRRTGK99 | Diep | ||
| 9 | 3/10 | HITS 2: BH98, DH99 | Poornima | |
| 3/12 | Web structure: AJB99, BKMRRSTW00, SMBFV07 | Rahul | ||
| 3/17 | Spring break | |||
| 3/19 | ||||
| 10 | 3/24 | Web crawling | Chapter 8 | Fil; Project progress report due (1 page max) |
| 3/26 | Preferential crawlers: CG-MP98, NW01 | Feng | ||
| 11 | 3/31 | Focused crawlers: CvdBD99, DCLGG00, CPS02 | Chintan S. | |
| 4/2 | Topical crawlers: MB00, MPS04 | Felix | ||
| 12 | 4/7 | Additional topics | Coverage & growth: LG98, LG99, NCO04 | DongInn |
| 4/9 | Locality: M02, M04a, MMRV05 | Jeff | ||
| 13 | 4/14 | Models: BA99, KKRRT99, PFLGG02, M04b, FFM06 | Thilina + Jasleen | |
| 4/16 | Web traffic: MMFFV08, LGLZMHL08, GMRFM09 | Mehool | ||
| 14 | 4/21 | Social tagging: M05, GH06, MRM08, HKG-M08, MCMBHS09, | Deepak + Bin | |
| 4/23 | P2P: AWMM06, MWA08 | Shijin | ||
| 15 | 4/28 | Project presentations | ||
| 4/30 | Project due: Final report (2-page WWW poster format) + online | |||
| 16 | 5/5 at 10:15 a.m.- 12:15 p.m. | Project demostrations (by appointment) | ||