showmen-gupta / uis-dat630-fall2017

UiS DAT630 Web Search and Data Mining course, fall 2017

UiS DAT630 Web Search and Data Mining course (fall 2017)

Course information

• General information
• Programming environment and tools
• GitHub usage
• Elasticsearch usage

Schedule

Week	Days	Lecture (Mon)	Practicum (Tue)	Lab (Wed)	Reading
Part I: IR
34	21-23/08	no lecture	Course intro; Search engine architecture and indexing (slides)	Setting up environment	SE, Chapters 1, 2, 5
35	21-23/08	Retrieval models (slides, exercises)	Practicum-1	Assignment 1	SE, Chapter 7
36	04-06/09	Retrieval evaluation (slides, exercises)	Practicum-2	Assignment 1	SE, Chapter 8
Part II: DM
37	11-13/09	Introduction & data (slides, exercises)	Practicum-3	Assignment 1	Intro to DM, Chapters 1-2
38	18-20/09	Exploring data	Practicum-4	Assignment 2A	Intro to DM, Chapter 3
39	25-27/09	Classification (basic)	Practicum-5	Assignment 2A	Intro to DM, Chapter 4
40	02-04/10	TBD (Invited lecture)	TBD (Invited lecture)	Assignment 2A
41	09-11/10	Classification (advanced)	Practicum-6	Assignment 2B	Intro to DM, Chapter 5
42	16-18/10	Clustering	Practicum-7	Assignment 2B	Intro to DM, Chapter 8
Part III: advanced IR
43	23-25/10	Web search	Practicum-8	Assignment 3
44	30-31/10	Learning-to-rank	Practicum-9	Assignment 3
45	06-08/11	Semantic search	Practicum-10	Assignment 3
46	13-14/11	Trial exam Part I	Trial exam Part II	Q&A

Assignment deadlines

• Assignment 1: 18/09 10:00
• Assignment 2: 23/10 10:00
• Assignment 3: 13/11 10:00

Exam

• Date: 4/12