Date	Topic / Paper(s)	Presenter	Critic	Reviewers
Mon Jan 14	Introduction Bing Liu. Chapter 1 of Web Data Mining: Introduction, 2007. Michael J. Hanson and Dylan J. McNamee. Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology, 2000.
Wed Jan 16	Discuss Reviewing Alan Jay Smith. The Task of the Referee. IEEE Computer, 23(4):65-71, April 1990. Roy Levin and David D. Redell. An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions -or- How (and How Not) to Write a Good Systems Paper. Operating Systems Review, 17(3):35-40, July, 1983.
	Start Classification (Chapter 3)
Fri Jan 18	Classification, continued
	Discuss projects
Mon Jan 21	Classification, continued
Wed Jan 23	Bringing Order to the Web: Automatically Categorizing Search Results, Chen and Dumais, CHI 2000.	Wang	Strohmaier	Hong, Yu, Dai
Fri Jan 25	Adversarial Classification, Dalvi, Domingos, Mausam, Sanghai, Verma, KDD 2004.	Hong	Yu	Yang, Wang, Strohmaier
Mon Jan 28	Finish classification
Wed Jan 30	Guest Speaker: Prof. Lin Lin on Web usage mining. Read Chapter 12 (Web Usage Mining). Web Usage Mining: Discovery and Applications of Usage Patterns from Web Data, Srivastava et al., SIGKDD Explorations, 2000.
Thu Jan 31	Speaker: Mike Moran: Step-by-Step Search Marketing Success. Packard 466, 4pm
Fri Feb 1	Start Clustering (Chapter 4)
Mon Feb 4	Present project ideas
Wed Feb 6	Using Web Structure for Classifying and Describing Web Pages, Glover, Tsioutsiouliklis, Lawrence, Pennock, and Flake, WWW 2002.	Yang	Wang	Dai, Hong, Strohmaier
Fri Feb 8	The Structure of Broad Topics on the Web, Chakrabarti, Joshi, Punera, Pennock, WWW 2002.	Dai	Hong	Wang, Yang, Yu
Mon Feb 11	Clustering, continued.
	Two-page Project Proposals due
Wed Feb 13	Navigation-Aided Retrieval, Pandit and Olston, WWW 2007.	Yu	Dai	Strohmaier, Yang, Wang
Fri Feb 15	Mining Anchor Text for Query Refinement, Kraft and Zien, WWW 2004.	Strohmaier	Yang	Yu, Dai, Hong
Mon Feb 18	Start Information Retrieval (Chapter 6)
Wed Feb 20	A taxonomy of JavaScript redirection spam, Chellapilla and Maykov, AIRWeb 2007.	Hong	Wang	Dai, Strohmaier, Yu
Fri Feb 22	Start Link Analysis (Chapter 7)
Mon Feb 25	Finish Link Analysis
Wed Feb 27	Topic-sensitive PageRank, Haveliwala, WWW 2002. Also consider the journal version, TKDE 2003.	Dai	Yu	Wang, Hong, Yang
Fri Feb 29	Guest Speaker: Xiaoguang Qi (Web Page Classification) Knowing a Web Page by the Company It Keeps, Qi and Davison, CIKM 2006.
Mon Mar 3	Spring Break
Wed Mar 5	Spring Break
Fri Mar 7	Spring Break
Mon Mar 10	Query Chains: Learning to Rank from Implicit Feedback, Radlinski and Joachims, KDD 2005 and/or Accurately Interpreting Clickthrough Data as Implicit Feedback, Joachims, Granka, Pan, Hembrooke, and Gay, SIGIR 2005. Also skim background paper: Optimizing Search Engines using Clickthrough Data, Joachims, KDD 2002.	Wang	Strohmaier	Hong, Yang, Yu
Wed Mar 12	Guest Speaker: Lan Nie (Topical Link Analysis) Topical Link Analysis for Web Search, Nie et al., SIGIR 2006 From Whence Does Your Authority Come? Utilizing Community Relevance in Ranking, Nie et al., AAAI 2007
Fri Mar 14	Ranking the Web Frontier, Eiron et al, WWW 2004	Yang	Hong	Dai, Wang, Strohmaier
Mon Mar 17	PageRank without Hyperlinks: Structural Re-Ranking using Links Induced by Language Models, Kurland and Lee, SIGIR 2005.	Yu	Yang	Dai, Strohmaier, Hong
Wed Mar 19	Sic Transit Gloria Telae: Towards an Understanding of the Web's Decay, Bar-Yossef et al, WWW 2004	Strohmaier	Dai	Yu, Yang, Wang
Fri Mar 21	MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Dean and Ghemawat, CACM, January 2008. See digital version. Originally published in OSDI 2004. Also skim background papers: The Google File System, Ghemawat et al., SOSP 2003, and Web search for a planet: The Google cluster architecture, Barroso et al, IEEE Micro, 2003. Slides and Video from a series of MapReduce lectures from Google
Mon Mar 24	Detecting Phrase-Level Duplication on the World Wide Web, Fetterly, Manasse, and Najork, SIGIR 2005.	Hong	Strohmaier	Dai, Wang, Yang
Wed Mar 26	When Experts Agree: Using Non-Affiliated Experts to Rank Popular Topics, Bharat and Mihaila, WWW 2001	Dai	Wang	Hong, Strohmaier, Yu
Fri Mar 28	Status updates on course projects Assign take-home midterm exam
Mar 28-31	Midterm exam
Mon Mar 31	Collect midterm exam Clustering Algorithms and MapReduce Slides and Video Graph Algorithms and MapReduce Slides and Video from a series of MapReduce lectures from Google
Wed Apr 2	Web-Page Summarization Using Clickthrough Data, Sun, Shen, Zeng, Yang, Lu, and Chen, SIGIR 2005.	Wang	Hong	Hong, Yu
Fri Apr 4	Class cancelled for participation in HPC Day
Mon Apr 7	Do Not Crawl in the DUST: Different URLs with Similar Text, Bar-Yossef, Keidar, and Schonfeld, WWW 2007.	Yang	Dai	Dai, Strohmaier
Wed Apr 9	Corroborate and learn facts from the web, Zhao and Betz, KDD 2007.	Yu	Wang	Wang, Hong
Fri Apr 11	Opinion observer: analyzing and comparing opinions on the Web, Liu, Hu, and Cheng, WWW 2005. For background and other opinion mining, see Chapter 11 of our textbook.	Strohmaier	Yang	Yang, Dai
Mon Apr 14	Query type classification for web document retrieval, Kang and Jim, SIGIR 2003.	None
Wed Apr 16	Searching the Workplace Web, Fagin, Kumar, McCurley, Novak, Sivakumar, Tomlin, and Williamson, WWW 2003.	Dai	Hong	Hong, Yu
Fri Apr 18	Mining web multi-resolution community-based popularity for information retrieval, Park and Ramamohanarao, CIKM 2007.	Wang	Strohmaier	Strohmaier, Yang
Mon Apr 21	Turn in draft project report MapReduce: A major step backwards, and MapReduce II, DeWitt and Stonebreaker, 2008. We will also include discussion from Blog 1 and Blog 2. Hadoop is the open source implementation of MapReduce and the Google File System, and is used in many places, including Yahoo! and Amazon.
Wed Apr 23	Guest Speaker: Lan Nie Separate and inequal: Preserving heterogeneity in topical authority flows, Nie and Davison, SIGIR 2008
Fri Apr 25	Discussion
Thu May 1	8-11am, PL258, Final Exam slot for Presentations