CS276 / LING 286 Information Retrieval and Web Mining Autumn 2008

Christopher Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan

Lecture: 3 units, Tu/Th 4:15-5:30 Gates B01
Review Section: 0 units, Tu 1:15 Skilling 193 (held 6 times per quarter, one per assignment/exam, see the syllabus for specific dates)
Head TA: Daniel Ramage
TAs: Kevin Wong, Jason Chuang, Richa Bhayani
Staff e-mail: cs276-aut0809-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Lectures are also available online and on television through SCPD/SITN.

Course Description:

Basic and advanced techniques for text-based information systems: efficient text indexing; Boolean and vector space retrieval models; evaluation and interface issues; Web search including crawling, link-based algorithms, and Web metadata; text/Web clustering, classification; text mining.

Syllabus

Additional Information

Staff Contact Information

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Professor: Christopher Manning
Office: Gates 158
Office Hours: Monday 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Email: manning@cs.stanford.edu

Professor: Prabhakar Raghavan
Office: none on campus
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: pragh@yahoo-inc.com

TA: Daniel Ramage
Office: Gates 114
Office Hours #1: Tuesday 5:30pm - 7:00pm, Gates B24B, Phone (650) 736-1816
Office Hours #2: Thursday 10:30am - 12:00pm, Gates 114, Phone (650) 725-6965
Email: email

TA: Kevin Wong
Office Hours: Wednesday 4:30pm - 6:30pm, Gates B26A
Email: kbw5@stanford.edu

TA: Jason Chuang
Office: Gates 398
Office Hours #1: Monday 4:30pm - 6:00pm, Gates 398, Phone TBD
Office Hours #2: Tuesday 10:30am - 12:00pm, Gates 398
Email: jcchuang@stanford.edu

TA: Richa Bhayani
Office Hours #1: Wednesday 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Gates B26A
Office Hours #2: Friday 11:30am - 1:00pm, Gates B26A
Email: rbhayani@stanford.edu

Course admin: Debbie Barros
Office: Gates 150
Email: dbarros@cs.stanford.edu

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Textbook:

Introduction to Information Retrieval, by C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze. Cambridge University Press.

Available from the Stanford bookstore or other fine retailers. You can also download and print chapters at the book website.

Prerequisites:

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