COMP393: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Fall 2007

• Syllabus
• Schedule (shaded parts are subject to change)
• Data
• Assignments:
  • Assignment 1, due Monday, September 3
  • My solution, which you can use for Assignment 2 if you wish, provided you clearly indicate which lines were copied and/or altered.
  • Assignment 2, due Thursday, September 13
  • Assignment 3, due Thursday, September 27
  • Assignment 4, rough draft due Monday, October 8; final version due Thursday, October 18. Java files giving my solution to Question 1 are now available: DecisionTreeNode.java, DecisionTree.java. A solution to Question 3b is also available.
  • Assignment 5, rough draft due Thursday, November 8; final version due Thursday, November 15.
  • Guidelines for final project, substantial draft due Monday, December 3; final version due Saturday, December 15
  • A very brief final project progress report should be submitted at the start of class every Monday, beginning on November 12. Reports should be handwritten on the provided interim report template.
• Quizzes:
  • Sample for Quiz 1 (with solutions), to be given on Thursday, September 6
  • Sample for Quiz 2 (with solutions), to be given on Thursday, September 20
  • Sample for Quiz 3 (with solutions), to be given on Thursday, October 11
  • Sample for Quiz 4 (with solutions), to be given on Thursday, November 1
• Research paper discussions:
  • On Thursday, October 4, we will be discussing the paper "Detecting Spam Web Pages through Content Analysis", by Ntoulas, Najork, Manasse, and Fetterly. Each student will give a 5-10 minute presentation (using voice and whiteboard only -- no prepared slides) on part of the paper, assigned as follows:
    • Matt -- sections 1, 2, and 3.
    • Katy -- sections 4-4.6.
    • Andy -- sections 4.7-4.10.
    • Luke -- section 5.
    • Richard -- section 6. (In addition to summarizing this section in your presentation, please look at at least one piece of related work and briefly discuss it.)
  • On Thursday, October 25, we will be discussing the paper "Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem", by John, Kohavi, and Pfleger. Each student will give a 5-10 minute presentation (using voice and whiteboard only -- no prepared slides) on part of the paper, assigned as follows:
    • Richard -- section 2.
    • Matt -- sections 3.
    • Katy -- section 4.
    • Luke -- section 5.
    • Andy -- sections 1 and 6.
• Weighting for assignments (added on 9/24/07):
  • Assignment 1: 1.0
  • Assignment 2: 2.0
  • Assignment 3: 2.0
  • Assignment 4: 2.5
  • Assignment 5: 2.5