INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Fall 2015
Module 6: Monday October 5 to Sunday October 11

Module Checklist

1. View the introductory video for this module.
2. Read Chapter 3 of our CMS textbook.
3. View the first reading commentary video.
4. Read Chapter 2 of the Castillo and Davison survey.
5. View the second reading commentary video.
6. Read the Lalmas chapter.
7. View the third reading commentary video.
8. Check ELMS to see if you have an additional reading summary assigned to you this week. If so, complete that summary by midnight Thursday and submit it using ELMS.
9. View the The Web lecture video.
10. View the Crawling lecture video.
11. View the Web Search lecture video.
12. On Friday (or later), read the additional reading summaries that were prepared by your classmates this week.
13. Don't forget to post at least one substantive comment to this module's discussion forum.
14. Read Project Assignment P6.
15. Watch the exercise explanation video for Project Assignment P6.
16. Complete Project Assignment P6 and submit your results using ELMS.
17. If you want to hear some of the topics in this module presented differently, consider viewing parts of the optional supplementary videos.

Readings

• Introductory Video
  1. Module 6 Introduction (2 minutes)
• Reading Commentary Videos
  1. Comments on Chapter 3 of our CMS textbook (10 minutes)
  2. Comments on Chapter 2 of the Castillo and Davison survey (10 minutes)
  3. Comments on Lalmas' chapter in the ESSIR 2011 book (10 minutes)
• Lecture Videos
  1. The Web (25 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  2. Crawling (35 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
  3. Web search (34 minutes) [PowerPoint slides for this lecture]
• Additional Required Video
  1. Project Assignment P6 Overview (10 minutes)
• Optional Supplementary Videos
  1. A 2013 Microsoft Research talk on Web Search Engines by Sree Hari Nagaralu.
  2. A guest lecture by Marc Najork on Web Spam in Marti Hearst's Fall 2005 SIMS 141 course on Search Engines at the University of California, Berkeley.
  3. A 2012 Microsoft Research talk Scarce Attention and the Value of Page Rank in Online Search by Paul Seabright.
  4. A guest lecture by Hal Varian on Search Advertizing in Marti Hearst's Fall 2005 SIMS 141 course on Search Engines at the University of California, Berkeley.
  5. A guest lecture by Brian Larson on Real-Time Twitter Search in Marti Hearst's Fall 2012 i290 course on Analyzing Big Data with Twitter at the University of California, Berkeley.
  6. A guest lecture by Peter Norvig on Google News, Print Maps, and Earth in Marti Hearst's Fall 2005 SIMS 141 course on Search Engines at the University of California, Berkeley.
  7. A 2010 Google Tech Talk on Black Hat Spam Search Engine Optimization by Julien Sobrier.
  8. Spring 2011 Full-Session Classroom Video and Slides (streaming)
  9. Fall 2007 Full-Session Classroom Video (232 MB .wmv file -- expect a slow download) (Associated Powerpoint Slides)

Project Assignment P6