Internet Information Master AI, IK, INF, 2004/2005

Welcome

Welcome to the web site for the 2005 edition of Internet Information. This course is about retrieving and mining information on the web.

NEW! Solution to part 1 of the final exam; results are in the current grades page. For part 1, the mean grade is 43.05 out of 50 (stdev 5.9). Part 2 to be published late this week / early next week.

The guidelines for the peer assessment.

Course Organization

Internet Information 2005 is a course at the master's level, worth 10ECTS, which should keep you busy for 17.5 hours a week. The course is a mixture of lectures, reading assignments, short lab assignments, and large group-based project work.

The first lecture is on Thursday, February 10, 14:15-17.00 in Room P0.16. During the first half of the course, many of the lab slots (Tuesdays, 11:15-13:00, Rooms C.206/C.302) will be used for lectures. During the second half of the course the tables are turned, and many of the lecture slots will be used for lab and project-related work.

Lecturers

The course is being taught by Gilad Mishne and Maarten de Rijke.

Course Material

For each of the 16 weeks of the course, a separate web page has been or will be created, that can be accessed through the navigation bar at the top. Those pages contain references, slides, and pointers for the appropriate week. In addition, there are three project pages, which will describe, in quite some detail, the aims of the three group-based projects.

The (required) text book for this course is Soumen Chakrabarti, Mining the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.

Check the Blackboard pages for this course for announcements etc.

Course Assessment

Assessment will be based on practical work, reading asssignments, and exams. Project assessments will be partly based on peer and self assessment. More precisely, your final mark will be determined using the following 3 factors:

  • 40%: project based work (Programming assignments during the first 8 weeks, and project during the second block of 8 weeks)
  • 40%: exam (final only; there will be no mid-term exam)
  • 20%: weekly reading and lab assignments

Please note that, following standard University practice, you need to score (at least) a pass-mark (5.5 or more) on each of the above aspects.

View the current grades.