Fall 2008
[Syllabus]
Topics |
Date(s) |
Reading |
Introductions : Who is Who in this Class
Tue, Aug 19
Assignment:
Write a description of your personal introduction that you made in class.
Email to mihail@cc.gatech.edu , in plain text.
Also attach your photo (jpeg).
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The case of Pagerank.
Thu, Aug 21
Readings:
(1) S. Brin and L. Page,
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,
Proc. 7th International World Wide Web Conference, 1998. (2) L. Page, S. Brin, R. Motwani, T. Winograd, The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. (3) R. Lempel, S. Moran, The Stochastic Approach for Link-Structure Analysis (SALSA) and the TKC Effect, 9th International World Wide Web Conference, May 2000. (4) H. Zhang, A. Goel, R. Govindan, K. Mason, B. Van Roy, Improving Eigenvector-Based Reputation Systems against Collusions, Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW) 2004. ASSIGNMENT: Write a critique on the above readings. Look for and share further good resources on the topic. Think of and share possible further directions and applications. | ||
A very efficient information retrieval method: SVD, LSI.
Thu, Aug 21
Readings:
(1) J. Kleinberg,
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment,
Proc. 9th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998.
Extended version in Journal of the ACM 46(1999). (2) T. Landauer and S. Dumais, A Solution to Plato's Problem: The Latent Semantic Analysis Theory of Acquisition, Induction and Representation of Knowledge. Psychological Review, 1997, 104(2), 211-240. A couple more will be added. ASSIGNMENT: Write a critique on the above readings. Look for and share further good resources on the topic. Think of and share possible further directions and applications. |