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CS276 / LING 286 |
Christopher Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan
Lecture: 3 units, TuTh 4:15-5:30
Gates B03
Section: 0 units, one for each assignment (see the syllabus), Friday 3:15-4:05pm, Skilling 193
live on E4.
TAs: Jeff Michels, Ying Xu, Daniel Ramage
Staff e-mail: cs276-aut0607-staff@lists.stanford.edu
Lectures
are also available online and on television through SCPD/SITN.
Final Mean: 61.3; Standard Deviation: 12.6
Practice Final
Programming Exercise #2
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[PDF]
- Due: Thursday, Nov 30, 2006 by 11:59pm
- Review session: Friday, Nov 17, 2006 3:15-4:05pm, Skilling 193
Problem Set #2
Midterm
- Midterm solutions
- Mean: 56.5
- Standard Deviation: 13
Programming Exercise #1
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[PDF]
- Due: Thursday, Oct 19, 2006 by 11:59pm
- Review session: Friday, Oct 13, 2006 3:15-4:05pm, Skilling 193
Problem set #1
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.
Staff Contact Information
Newsgroup: We strongly recommend
students to post questions to the course newsgroup su.class.cs276
(instead of sending emails). This forum
enables students to discuss the questions they encounter in lectures or
assignments. For information about how to access the newsgroup see A
Stanford Intro to Usenet .
Email: If you have a question
not appropriate for the newsgroup (e.g., one that is only relevant to your
situation or one that reveals part of your solution to a homework question),
please email the staff mailing list at cs276-aut0607-staff@lists.stanford.edu.
Professor:
Christopher Manning
Office: Gates 158
Office Hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:00; Thursday 3:00-4:00
Email: manning@cs.stanford.edu
Professor:
Prabhakar Raghavan
Office: none on campus
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: pragh@cs.stanford.edu
TA:
Jeff
Michels
Office: Gates 114
Office Hours: Monday 10:30-12:00; Tuesday 1:30-3:00
Phone: (650)725-6965
Email: jmichels@stanford.edu
TA:
Ying Xu
Office: Gates 470
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30-3:00; Friday 10:30-12:00
Phone: (650)723-1787
Email: xuying@stanford.edu
TA:
Daniel Ramage
Office: Gates 114
Office Hours: Wednesday 3:30-5:00
Phone: (650)725-6965
Email: email address
Course
admin: Sarah
Lee
Office: Gates 150
Email: saylee@cs.stanford.edu
Textbook:
Introduction
to Information Retrieval, by C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze.
Available
in draft form, as a reader from the Stanford bookstore. You can also download and
print (perhaps updated) chapters at the book
website.
Prerequisites:
CS
103B and CS 107, and any one of CS 121, CS 145, or CS 161, or equivalent
background.
Programming
experience will be necessary for the two practical exercises.
Announcements:
There
is a submission box outside of Prof.Manning's office. If you submit your
assignment late, please put the date on top of your assignment and the number
of late days used.