Christopher Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan

Lecture: 3 units, Tu/Th 4:15-5:30 Gates B01
Review Section: 0 units, Tu 1:15-2:05 in Skilling 193 (held 6 times per quarter, one per assignment/exam, see the syllabus for specific dates)
TAs: Andrey Gusev, Shakti Sinha, Roshan Sumbaly
Staff e-mail: cs276-aut0910-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 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Office Hours: Thursday 11:00am - 12:00pm
Email: manning@cs.stanford.edu

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

TA: Shakti Sinha
Office: Gates B24A, (650)725-4385
Office Hours #1: Thursday 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Office Hours #2: Friday 5:30pm - 7:00pm (remember to carry your Stanford ID to open the basement doors)
Email: shakti@stanford.edu

TA: Roshan Sumbaly
Office: Gates B26A, (650)723-6319
Office Hours #1: Tuesday 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Office Hours #2: Friday 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Email: rsumbaly@stanford.edu

TA: Andrey Gusev
Office Hours #1: Monday 2:30pm - 4:00pm Gates B24B,(650)736-1816
Office Hours #2: Wednesday 11:00am - 12:30pm Gates B26A, (650)723-6319
Email: agusev@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:

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.

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