Stanford University

CS276 / LING 286
Information Retrieval and Web Mining
Autumn 2008


Meeting Times and Locations

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, s
ee the syllabus for specific dates)

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-aut0809-staff@lists.stanford.edu.

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 (650) 725-7784
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

Announcements: If you are not registered in the course but wish to receive course announcements, you may subscribe to the guest mailing list cs276-aut0809-guests@lists.stanford.edu.

Grading Policy:

Problem sets (2)

20%

Programming exercises (2)

10% + 20% = 30%

Midterm

20%

Final

30%

Assignment/Exam Schedule:

In addition to the midterm and final, we will assign two written problem sets and two programming-based practical exercises. Refer to the right-most column of the syllabus for the scheduled dates.

Assignment Policies:

Honor Code:

All actual, detailed work on the solution of problem sets must be individual work. You are encouraged to discuss problem sets with each other in a general way, but if you do so, then you must acknowledge the people with whom you discussed the problem set at the top of your submission.

You should not look for problem answers elsewhere; but again, if material is taken from elsewhere, then you should acknowledge it. For practical exercises, you are not permitted to get programming help from people other than your partner. Normally, you are permitted to use pre-existing code, but you must acknowledge code that you have taken from other sources. In general, we will act and expect you to act according to the Stanford Honor Code.


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