Web Mining Seminar
CSE 450:
Fall 2005 Syllabus
Course Web page
The course Web page
is http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/webmining/.
Announcements,
assignments, and some lecture materials will be available there.
Instructor The course will be taught
by Prof. Brian D. Davison. My email is davison (at)
cse.lehigh.edu. My homepage is http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/.
My office is in Packard 251A (inside my PL251 lab), and my office hours
and contact information are posted on my home page. All other meetings
should be by appointment.
Time/Location
Class meetings will be held Tue/Thu 10:45-noon in
Maginnes 110.
Textbooks
This course
has no required texts.
Optional, recommended texts for background material
include Mining the Web, by Chakrabarti (2003).
Reading List
A schedule of
topics and papers to read will be published on the course website.
Prerequisites
CSE345/445
WWW Search Engines or CSE430 Textual Data Mining. Those who
have taken a data mining course (such as CSE347) may register with
permission of the instructor.
Expected Work
Attendance is required. Coursework will primarily consist of paper
critiques and presentations
along with a semester-long web mining project (from which results will be
presented to the class and in a technical report).
Grading Components
Grades will be determined through a combination of class participation,
presentation quality and preparedness, paper critiques, and course
project. (Percentages still to be determined.)
Policy on Disabilities
If you have a disability for which you are or may be requesting
accommodations, please contact your professor and the Office of Academic
Services, Room 212, University Center or call (610-758-4152) as early as
possible in the semester. University policy states that you must notify
your professor seven (7) days prior to the exam.
Other Relevant University Policies
Religious
Holidays
Lehigh
Computer Usage
Academic
Integrity
This page is
http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~brian/course/webmining/syllabus.html
Last revised: 26 August 2005, Prof. Davison.