A Guide to Web Research
Minicourse by Yury Lifshits. Stuttgart, Spring 2007 Poster

Date	Title and slides in PDF	Handouts	Audio	Google Video	References
14/02	Advertising Engines (800kb)	Slides for print (700kb)	Mp3, 72:07 33.8 mb	Watch	Sponsored Search: a Brief History Tuzhilin Report Keyword Clusters SSA Workshops SSA2 Panel Discussion
28/02	Large-Scale Graph Algorithms (280kb)	Slides for print (160kb)	Mp3, 58:01 26.6 mb	Watch	Newman's survey on complex networks Zobel/Moffat survey on inverted files Connection subgraph problem Nearest neighbors in general metric spaces Kleinberg's random projection method
14/03	Web Mining: Blogspace and Folksonomies (162kb)	Slides for print (107kb)	Mp3, 76:03, 34.8 mb	Watch	Bursty evolution of blogspace Information diffusion through blogspace Information epidemics in blogspace Introduction to folksonomies Information retrieval in folksonomies
20/03	Semantic Search (805kb)	Slides for print (725kb)	Mp3, 51:18, 23.5 mb	Watch	XRANK XSEarch Conceptual Graph Matching Semantic Search from W3C SPARQL query processing AskMSR Question-Answering System The Semantic Web

Follow-up papers. Along with preparing these lectures some brainstormings were organized. We are happy to present two working drafts now. Comments of all kinds are very welcome. Also, feel free to distribute these papers to everybody who might be interested.

• Benjamin Hoffmann, Yury Lifshits and Dirk Nowotka Maximal Intersection Queries in Randomized Graph Models
• Yury Lifshits and Dirk Nowotka Estimation of the Click Volume by Large Scale Regression Analysis

Links:

• Yury Lifshits "Open Problems in Web Research"
• Yury Lifshits' collection of links related to web research
• Web IR: another links collection