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Sep 30
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Documents (Jeff)
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Boolean retrieval (13 pages) |
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The SEO Game |
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Oct 7
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Queries (Jeff / Shawn)
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A taxonomy of web search (8 pages)
An algorithm for suffix stripping, Section 1. Introduction (2 pages)
Relevance feedback and query expansion (18 pages)
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Oct 14
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Evaluation (Jeff)
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Evaluation in information retrieval (25 pages)
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Oct 21
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Ads (Jeff) |
Computer Scientists Optimize Innovative Ad Auction (3 pages)
A Quality-Based Auction for Search Ad Markets with Aggregators (first 6 pages) |
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Oct 28
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Crawlers (Shawn)
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The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler
Wikipedia: Web_crawler
An Introduction to Heritrix
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Crawlers assignment |
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Nov 4
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Links & Behavior (Jeff) |
Social network analysis: a powerful strategy, also for the information sciences
Studying Online Social Networks
Social network analysis: A methodological introduction (skip math)
Democracy.com: A Tale of Political Blogs and Content (skim)
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SEO Game Checkpoint (No deliverables) |
The Pagerank Game |
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Nov 11
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Veteran's Day Holiday |
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Nov 18
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Networks (Shawn) |
The PageRank citation ranking: Bringing order to the Web (17 pages)
Strong Regularities in World Wide Web Surfing (3 pages)
Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences (8 pages)
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SEO Game Checkpoint and Deliverables |
Networks assignment |
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Nov 25
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Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Crawlers Assignment (Nov 25th) |
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Dec 2
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Archiving (Shawn) |
Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot, Archiving Internet Content, in W. Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Blackwell, (2008).
Masanes, J. Web Archiving: Issues and Methods. Web Archiving (2006): 1-53. (Focus on sections 4.x and 5.x)
Roche, X. Copying Websites. Web Archiving (2006): 93-114. (Scan)
Internet Archive Wayback Machine (Play with)
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Networks assignment (Dec 6th) |
Archiving assignment |
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Dec 9
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Social (Shawn) |
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog! |
Archiving assignment (Dec 10) |
Social Assignment |
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Finals
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No finals |
Read / study for your other classes.
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The Pagerank Game
Social Assignment (Dec 16th) |
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