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2II35 Web information systems

Last update: 7 Sep 2011; if you notice any outdated or wrong information on this webpage, please e-mail to 2II35.2011@gmail.com

Program: BIS, CSE, ES

Course Info: OWInfo

Lecturer: Mykola Pechenizkiy
Contacting:
via e-mail: 2II35.2011@gmail.com with a meaningful subject;
in person: option 1: please, do not hesitate to approach me during the lecture breaks on Fridays in Helix Col.2. 13.45 - 17.30; option 2: on Mondays and Tuesdays 10.00 - 12.00 I have office hours in HG7.82 dedicated for the educational activities; list with available time lots is hanging by the door; option 3: if you cannot make it during the lecture breaks or my office hours, please send a meeting request to 2II35.2011@gmail.com indicating your availability for the corresponding period;

Course Materials: Handouts, reading and guidelines will be available via Sakai Learning Management System. Please register using your TU/e login, and join 2II35.

Course Syllabus:

Date, Time, and Room Lecture Title and Contents
9 Sep 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
  • What IS is and what's special about WIS
  • Trends in WIS
  • Course overview and Q&A session
  • Group project examples, expected deliverables and presentation
16 Sep 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 2: Search Engines Part I.
  • Web dragons and beyond
  • Web search basics
  • SE architecture and Web crawling
  • Data Centers and Cloud Computing
23 Sep 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 3: Search Engines Part II.
  • Dealing with a variety of information needs and information resources
  • Social Search
  • Personalization
30 Sep 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 4: Information extraction on the Web.
  • Focused crawling
  • Term extraction and relationship extraction
  • Complex term/event extraction and indexing
  • Question answering on the Web
7 Oct 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 5: Sentiment Analysis. (Invited lecture by Arthur van Bunningen from Teezir)
  • Opinion mining on the Web
14 Oct 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 6: Web engineering and Semantic web
  • 1st hour: Invited lecture by George Fletcher
  • 2nd hour: Co-evolving Document collections and Knowledge structures
21 Oct 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 7: Experimentation Culture in WIS R&D
  • 1st hour: Invited lecture by Thijs Putman from MastersPortal
  • 2nd hour: Evaluation of WIS: Design - Deployment - Evaluation cycle; A/B testing
28 Oct 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 No lecture this Friday because of the Education Day. There will be an opportunity (for those who are available) to come and discuss group project progress.
17 Nov 2011
Thusday
17:00		 Deadline: Discussion of project proposals in groups (if you have not done this in October)
  • Form groups
  • Discuss the motivation, goals and scope of your project
  • Sketch your project assignment description and send it to 2II35.2011@gmail.com
  • Come to HG7.82 and pick a time slot to discuss your project
18 Nov 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 8: Web Analytics and Advertising on the Web
  • Invited lecture by Guido Budziak from Adversitement
  • Design of Context-aware WIS
25 Nov 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 9: Recommender Systems
  • Popular content- and collaborative-based approaches, plus various hybrids
  • Design issues
  • Issues of trust and vulnerability in recsys
2 Dec 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 10: Social Networks Part I.
  • Basic properties of small- and large-scale networks
  • Network dynamics
9 Dec 2011
Friday
13:45 – 15:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 11: Social Networks Part II.
  • Diffusion and cascading behavior in networks
  • Case study
9 Jan 2012
Monday
17:00		 Deadline: Submit your group project deliverables
  • Detailed instructions can be found in Sakai
(tbc) 12 Jan 2012
Thursday
13:30 – 17:30
(tbc) Helix Col.2		 Group project presentations
  • Demo plus poster presentation,
  • Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade
(tbc) 13 Jan 2012
Friday
13:30 – 15:45
(tbc) Helix Col.2		 Group project presentations
  • Demo plus poster presentation,
  • Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade
(tbc) 13 Jan 2012
Friday
15:45 – 17:30
Helix Col.2		 Lecture 12: Past, Present and Future of WIS
  • Feedback on group projects
  • Q&A for the final exam
  • Highlight of topics not covered in the course
  • Where WIS R&D is heading to
27 Jan 2012
Friday
14:00 – 17:00
Location tbc		 Final exam.
  • Closed book.
  • Complete list of questions from which the exam to be composed will be available by Dec 9th.
  • Exam grade contributes 30% to your final course grade
10 Feb 2012
Friday
14:00 – 17:00		 Course grades are sent to the administration.
(tbc) 5 April 2012
Thursday
13:45 – 15:30
Location tbc		 Delayed group project presentations
  • Demo plus poster presentation
  • Group project grade contributes 70% to your final course grade
13 Apr 2012
Friday
14:00 – 17:00
Location tbc		 Resit exam.
  • Closed book.
  • Complete list of questions from which the exam to be composed will be available by Dec 9th.
  • Exam grade contributes 30% to your final course grade
27 Apr 2012
Friday
14:00 – 17:00		 Revised course grades are sent to the administration.

Remarks:

  • Please notice that this schedule is indicative and some changes may be still possible.
  • Exact time slots and locations for group project presentations (in January before the examination period) will be confirmed by December 9th.
  • Last update: 7 Sep 2011; if you notice any outdated or wrong information on this webpage, please e-mail to 2II35.2011@gmail.com