Information on Information Retrieval (IR) books, courses, conferences andother resources.
Books
Modern Information Retrieval. R. Baeza-Yates, B.Ribeiro-Neto. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
Currently the mostwidely used and cited.
Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics.D.A. Grossman, O. Frieder. Springer,2004.
Excellent textbook, #1 or #2 seller on Amazon.
Managing Gigabytes.I.H. Witten, A. Moffat,T.C. Bell. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
The authority onindex construction and compression.
Mining the Web: Analysis of Hypertext and Semi Structured Data.S. Chakrabarti. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.
The bestintroduction for web-centric IR.
Finding Out About. R. Belew. Cambridge UP,2001.
More suitable for undergraduate classes thanother books listed here.
Information Retrieval:A Health and Biomedical Perspective. W.R. Hersh. Springer, 2002.
As the title says: ahealth/biomedical perspective.
TREC: Experiment and Evaluation in InformationRetrieval. E.M. Voorhees, D.K. Harman. MITPress, 2005.
A survey of recent research results.
Language Modeling for Information Retrieval. W.B.Croft, J. Lafferty. Springer, 2003.
Language models areof increasing importance in IR.
Readings in Information Retrieval.[url=]K. Sparck Jones, P. Willett. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
A collection of classical IR papers.[/url]
Recommended Reading for IR Research Students.A. Moffat, J. Zobel, D. Hawking. SIGIR Forum, 39(2), 2005.
Not a book, but a collection of seminal papers, more up-to-datethan Sparck-Jones et al.
Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. P. Baldi, P. Frasconi, P. Smyth. Wiley, 2003.
A bit terse. Recommended for those who have a good foundation inprobability theory, but are new to IR.
Information Storage and Retrieval Systems. G. Kowalski, M.T. Maybury. Springer, 2005.
"... takes a system approach, discussing all aspects of an InformationRetrieval System."
The Geometry of Information Retrieval.C.J. van Risjbergen. Cambridge UP, 2004.
Am ambitious attemptto develop quantum mechanics as a new foundation for IR.
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. G.G. Chowdhury. Neal-Schuman, 2003.
Intended for students of library and information studies.
Text Information Retrieval Systems. C. Meadow, B. Boyce, D. Kraft. Academic Press, 2000.
Also takes a library/information science perspective.
More Books
Free Online Books
Introduction to Information Retrieval.C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H.Schütze. Cambridge UP, 2007.
Draft.Focuses on algorithms and mathematical foundations withoutneglecting practical issues in building searchsystems. Equal coverage of classical IR and newer topicslike XML, machine learning techniques and web searchengines.
Information Retrieval. C. J. vanRijsbergen. Butterworths, 1979.
The classic. Almost 40years old, but still worth reading.
Information Retrieval Interaction. P. Ingwersen. Taylor Graham, 1992.
Focuses on userinteraction in IR.
Information Retrieval: A Survey. Ed Greengrass. 2000.
Good survey of "classical" IR, but little orno coverage of recent work (e.g., language models, PageRank, SVMs).
Information Retrieval. T. van der Weide. 2004.
Introduction to IR and hypertext.
Research Centers
CMU (LTI)
Dublin CU
Geneva (Viper)
Glasgow
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
IBM
Illinois Institute of Technology
Microsoft Research
NIST
Pittsburgh
Sheffield
UMASS
Courses
Berkeley (SIMS)
CMU
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
MPI
Stanford
Texas
UMASS
Problem Sets / Assignments
Bilkent
DePaul
Georgetown
Stuttgart
Tennessee
Web Information Retrieval
webir.org
Search Engine Watch
Users' Guide to Web Searching
PageRank
Subareas, Applications, Methods
Information Retrieval & Extraction
Information Retrieval & Machine Learning
Text Mining & Web Mining
INEX: XML retrieval
Geographic Information Retrieval
Music Information Retrieval
CLIR & Multilingual Information Retrieval
Cross-LanguageInformation Retrieval (CLIR) Resources
N-Grams in Information Retrieval
Agent-based Information Retrieval
Audio Information Retrieval
Adversarial Information Retrieval
Conferences
TREC
Cross Language Evaluation Forum
SIGIR 2006 (last),
SIGIR 2007 (next)
CIKM2005,
CIKM 2006
WWW 2006,
WWW 2007
JCDL 2006,
JCDL 2007
RIAO 2004,
RIAO 2007
ECIR 2006,
ECIR 2007
AIRS 2005,
AIRS 2006
SPIRE 2005,
SPIRE 2006
OSIR 2006
Norbert Fuhr's IR conference calendar
Journals
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS):
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Information Processing and Management (IP&M):
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Information Retrieval:
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International Journal on Digital Libraries:
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Journal of theAmerican Society of Information Science and Technology (JASIST):
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SIGIR Forum:
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Journal of Documentation
D-Lib Magazine
Data & Knowledge Engineering:
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Information Processing Letters:
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Information Research
Information Systems:
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Journal of Intelligent Information Systems:
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Knowledge and Information Systems:
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Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval:
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Popular Articles
Wikipedia: Information Retrieval
Bruce Croft: What Do People Want From IR
Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web
Michael Lesk: The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval
Software
Doug Oard's list of available
text retrieval systems
Avi Rappoport:
open source search engines
MySQL full text search
Collections
U. of Glasgow list of available
text retrieval collections
NLP/IR corpus list at NUS
NLP/IR corpus list at Edinburgh
Internet archive(limited availability)
Dot gov at CSIRO(part of TREC)
Linguistic Data Consortium
Professional Organizations
ACM SIGIR
BCS IRSG
Other Resources
Glossary (Modern Information Retrieval)
Information retrieval research links @ Search Tools
BUBL: Information Retrieval Links
LSU: Information Retrieval Systems
Open Directory: Information Retrieval Links
UBC: Indexing Resources
IR & Neural Networks, Symbolic Learning, Genetic Algorithms
A
stop list(also known as a list of stop words)
Machine Learning and Information Retrieval(older collection of papers)
Chris Manning's
NLP resources
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