Internet Information 2006/2007

Internet Information 2006/2007 is a master's level course, worth 6 ECTS and should keep you busy for 10 hours a week. The course consists of lectures (mostly on Mondays 9:15-11:00 in P016 and occasionally on Thursdays 15:15-18:00 in P014) and student group-based project work. See course announcement and course schedule.

The course is taught by Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke.

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Course News

All course news is aggregrated on the news page. The latest news items:

• NewsFinalExamResitResults
• NewsMidtermExamResitResults
• NewsFinalExamResit

Course material

There is no required textbook for the course: for each lecture the reading material will be indicated. The course partially uses material from the following textbooks:

• Modern Information Retrieval, R. Baeza-Yates and B. Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Mining the Web, S. Chakrabarti, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003.
• Introduction to Information Retrieval, C. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schütze (online version)
• Web Data Mining, Bing Liu, Springer, 2007
• Managing Gigabytes, I. Witten, A. Moffat, and T. Bell, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.

Course assessment

Assessment will be based on two exams, project work and active student participation. More specifically, the final mark will be a weighted sum of the components:

• 25%: mid-term exam (on or around Mar 29)
• 25%: final exam (on or around May 31)
• 40%: project work (group mark and peer assessments)
• 10%: active participation (during the lectures and on TWiki)

Following standard University practice, you need to score at least a pass-mark (5.5 or more) on each of the above aspects, except the active participation: there, you will have to get at least 5 points (see below).

Assessment of projects

Student group projects will be assessed based on:

• 20% × 3: three project presentations (startup, mid-term and final)
• 40%: quality of the final deliverable of the group (14% written report, 13% code, 13% documentation)

A group may request peer assessment. In this case it will included in the final mark.

Assessment of student participation

There are several ways you can earn points for active participation:

• You will be responsible for creating and maintaining a TWiki page for one lecture or one project presentations slot. The page will contain a detailed overview of the material discussed in class, including annotated references to resources used or referred to. In addition, each "Lecture" page will contain 5-10 exam-style questions covered by the lecture. The first version of your page will appear no later than the next day after the lecture/presentation. The page will contain all required information no later than 4 days after the class. You can earn 0 to 5 points for maintaining "your" page.
• You will be checking and updating other TWiki pages, including "lecture" and "presentation" pages maintained by your fellow students. You will maintain a log-book of your course-related activities, marking with items that you think deserve extra points (see PointsSummary for precise descriptions how to do request extra points).
• Your active participation during lectures (asking or answering questions) may also result in extra points.

The current point scores will be regularly updated and made publicly available. At the end of the course, scores will be normalized by the highest score to obtain the "active participation" component of the final mark. Please see NewsPointsAndAssignments for exact details of the normalization.

The purpose of the point system is to keep you awake on a daily basis

Facilities

• You are free to use all (with a few exceptions) features of TWiki collaboration platform.
• You will be able to configure and use a separate TWiki "Web" for each project group. You will also have access to TRAC, a simple project management system.
• You will use didicated UvA student computing facilities. You can also use computers in the lab (P1.26).

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