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Conferences and Workshops for 2008-2009
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Books
  • Modern Information Retrieval
    • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
  • Information retrieval systems [preview]
    • Kowalski, Gerald
  • Information retrieval algorithms and heuristics [preview]
    • David A. Grossman, Frieder Ophir
  • Information Retrieval - Suchmodelle und Data-Mining-Verfahren für Textsammlungen und das Web
    • Ferber, Reginald
  • Managing Gigabytes. Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images [preview]
    • Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, Timothy C. Bell
  • The Geometry of Information Retrieval [preview]
    • von C. J. Van Rijsbergen
  • Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval [preview]
    • Michael W. Berry
  • Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information [preview]
    • Sholom Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, Tong Zhang, Fred Damerau
  • Automated Information Retrieval - Theory and Methods
    • Valery I. Frants, Jacob Shapiro, Vladimir G. Voiskunskii
  • Readings in Information Retrieval [preview]
    • Karen Sparck Jones
  • Introduction to Information Retrieval [online]
    • Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze
Recommended Papers
  • Maron, M. E. and Kuhns, J. L. 1960. On Relevance, Probabilistic Indexing and Information Retrieval. J. ACM 7, 3 (Jul. 1960), 216-244. DOI
    • Comments: A good description of the IR paradigm.
Projects and Organisations
  • ASIS : The American Society for Information Science
  • NRC Institute for Information Technology (Canada)
  • SIGIR : Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of ACM.
  • TREC : TIPSTER was a DARPA-sponsored project that encouraged the advancement of state-of-the-art technologies for text handling, such as text retrieval, summarization, and the extraction of factual information from documents.
  • CIIR : The National Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. (U. of Massachusetts)
  • The Glasgow Information Retrieval Group
  • Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Group : The Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology works with industry, academia and other government agencies to promote the use of more effective and efficient techniques for manipulating (largely) unstructured textual information, especially the browsing, searching, and presentation of that information.
  • Information Retrieval Specialist Group (UK)
People
  • Gerard Salton
  • Hans Peter Luhn
  • W. Bruce Croft
  • Karen Spärck Jones
  • C. J. van Rijsbergen
  • Donald Kraft
  • Stephen E. Robertson
  • Abraham Bookstein
  • Stephen P Harter
  • David Blair
  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates
 

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