Resources

(Not yet updated for Fall 2007)

Textbooks and other collections

There is no required text for this course.  The following sources may be useful.  Some are on-line (note in particular MRS07).  Those with a bold reference are on reserve in the Science Library on campus in the LGRC lowrise.

 

• [BYRN99] Modern Information Retrieval, by Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Netao, 1999.  Published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN 020139829X.  This text does a reasonable job of hitting most of the topics that we'll discuss in class.  It unfortunately has no coverage of the statistical language modeling technique that we'll spend a fair bit of time talking about--but no other text does, either.   Marti Hearst keeps a companion website for the book.
• [CVR79]  Information Retrieval, Butterworths, by Keith van Rijsbergen, 1979.  Out of print, but available on-line.
• [FBY92] Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Prentice Hall, 1992.
• [GF04] Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics, by Grossman and Frieder, 2004.  Published by Springer.
• [KM97] Information Storage and Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation , by Gerald J. Kowalski and Mark T. Maybury, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 (second edition).  An earlier version of this text is Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, Gerald Kowalski, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
• [MRS07] Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Manning, Raghavan, and Schütze,Cambridge University Press, 2007.  This new (as yet unpublished) text has a companion website that includes chapters of the text as well as supporting slides in PowerPoint.
• [MS99] Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze, MIT Press, 1999. 
• [MZH05] “Recommended reading for IR research students” by Moffat, Zobel, and Hawking.  Appeared in the SIGIR Forum, 39(2), 2005.  A list of readings collected by attendees at the SWIRL 2004 workshop held in Lorne, Australia.  Available on-line in PDF.
• [S89] Automatic Text Processing, Gerard Salton, Addison Wesley, 1989. 
• [SJW97] Readings in Information Retrieval, edited by Sparck Jones and Willet.  Published by Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1558604545.  This is a collection of "significant" papers in the field of information retrieval, along with nice overviews of parts of the field to introduce various sections.  It is not a textbook, but is an excellent resource for additional reading on some topics.
• [WMB99] Managing Gigabytes, 2nd edition, by Witten, Moffat, and Bell, 1999.  Published by Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1558605703.  This is a very well done text that focuses on the implementation side of information retrieval systems, with particular focus on compression techniques for dealing with large amounts of data.  The companion website contains errata, software, and so on.
• A quite comprehensive list of additional resources has been collected by Hinrich Schütze of Stuttgart.