Course Overview for Web Computing J. H. Wang Sep. 19, 2011

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE2 Instructor –J. H. Wang ( 王正豪 ) –Assistant Professor, CSIE, NTUT –Office: R1534, Technology Building, NTUT – –Tel: (02) ext –Office Hours: 8:00-10:00am every Tuesday, 10:00am-14:00pm every Wednesday

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE3 Course Description Time: 14:25-17:20pm, Mon. Classroom: F308 Textbook: –Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schuetze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press, (International Student Edition, 開發圖書 ) –available online: References: –Documents on Web services: API specification: Google APIs, Yahoo APIs Protocol specification: HTTP, XML, JSON –Documents on network programming: socket (BSD, WinSock, or Java Socket) –Other documents and papers

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE4 Additional References References books on information retrieval: –Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search, Addison-Wesley, Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search This is the second edition of their book Modern Information Retrieval in ( 華通 )Modern Information Retrieval –Stefan Buettcher, Charles L.A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack, Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, MIT Press, 2010.Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines –Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Addison-Wesley, ( 全華 ) Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE5 Additional References More information – Webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_ Web – Course Web page – p/ p/

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE6 Intended Audience An introductory course of Web computing for undergraduates –Juniors/seniors Prerequisite –Basic knowledge of data structures and discrete mathematics –Programming experience is necessary for completing the homework assignments and projects

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE7 Teaching Lectures: mostly in slides Labs: about 3-4 in-class labs Homework assignments: about 2 assignments Programming exercises: about 2-3 assignments –Assignments should be turned in within two weeks Exams: 1 midterm exam Projects: 1 term project/presentation

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE8 Grading Policy Homework assignments and programming exercises: 40% Mid-term exam: 30% Final project or presentation: 30%

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE9 Programming Exercises and Final Project At least two programming exercises –Team-based (at most 2 persons per team) –Writing your own code or reusing existing open source code would be fine –Topics: (more on this later…) One final project –Either team-based (the same as programming exercise) –Or Web-related academic paper presentation But, your should do it on your own (only 1 person), NOT team-based –A proposal is needed around midterm (Dec. 2011) Introduction, methods used, experiment designs

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE10 What’s NOT Included in this Course How to use Web (2.0) clients or tools How to install/configure/manage Web servers How to design homepages How to write a program (in C, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python, PHP, …)

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE11 What’s Web Computing? World Wide Web –Internet application: client-server Web protocols: HTTP Web document formats: HTML, XML, JSON, … Web servers: CGI, databases, Web clients (browsers): user interface, security, … Web programming languages: Javascript, Python, PHP, Ajax, …

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE12 What’s Web Search

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE13 In Wikipedia

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE14 Related Events

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Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE17 In Google News

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE18 In Blogs

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE19 Or Related Keywords Sendai Miyagi Tsunami Nuclear power plant …

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE20 What if We Search in Chinese

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE21 And More… 東日本大地震 三一一大地震 宮城縣 仙台 海嘯 核危機 … And other languages…

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE22 Major Topics to be Covered Web search and information retrieval –(And Web mining if time permits) Network programming Web services Web API programming

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE23 Organization of the Textbook Basics in IR –Inverted indexes for Boolean queries (Ch.1-5) –Term weighting and vector space model (Ch. 6-7) –Evaluation in IR (Ch. 8) Advanced Topics –Relevance feedback (Ch. 9) –XML retrieval (Ch. 10) –Probabilistic IR (Ch. 11) –Language models (Ch. 12) Machine learning in IR –Text classification (Ch ) –Document clustering (Ch ) Web Search –Web crawling and indexes (Ch ) –Link analysis (Ch. 21)

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE24 Tentative Schedule (1/2) Before midterm –Course Overview (1 wk) –Web search and related applications (2 wks) –Information Retrieval concepts (5 wks) Indexing Vector space model and scoring Ranking and evaluation –Network programming (2 wks)

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE25 Tentative Schedule (2/2) Before end of semester –Web services: overview (2 wks) –Web services programming (4-5 wks) Google APIs: Web, blog, news, Maps Yahoo APIs: Web, term extraction Others –Term project presentation (1-2 wks)

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE26 A Big Picture

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE27 Programming Exercises Network programming –Sending/receiving packets –Connecting to specific (IP, port) using some protocol –Response parsing: HTTP Web services programming –Calling Google & Yahoo APIs: Web, news, map, term extraction, … –Response parsing: JSON, XML (Details to be announced…)

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE28 Possible Topics for Term Project Design and implement a new Web service by combining existing Web services, e.g. –Meta-search engine –Translation assistant –Name finder –Location-based service –…

Web Computing, Fall 2011 NTUE29 Thanks for Your Attention! Any question or comment?