• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto: "Modern Information Retrieval", Second Edition, Addison-Wesley 2011, ISBN: 978-0-321-41691-9. (First edition from 1999 can also be used)
• Articles and documents from the Web.
  • LSI
  • The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Page, Lawrence and Brin, Sergey and Motwani, Rajeev and Winograd, Terry (1999).
  • PageRank
  • Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment. Kleinberg, Jon (1999).
  • SVM
  • Text Categorization with Support Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features. Joachims, T (1998).
  • Toward the Next Generation of Recommender systems: A survey of the State-of-the-Art and Possible Extensions. Adomavicius, G and Tuzhilin, A. (2005); Sections 1 - 2
• Course notes and labs
  • Lab manual

Lectures: 7 x 2 hours; first lecture  Monday Jan 16, 13:15 - 15:00 in E:2349

Laborations: 5 x 4 hours; first mandatory lab Thursday Jan 26, 8:15 - 12:00 in E:4115

Optional, non-mandatory lab on PHP-programming before first mandatory lab. E:4115