References:

1. Introduction to Information Retrieval, by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan & Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press. 2008. (In order to download a PDF version click here)

2. Information Retrieval: A Survey, by Ed Greengrass, 30 November 2000. (Also downloadable here)

3. Modern Information Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates & Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wisley, 1999. (for more information click here)

4. Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. (for more information click here)

Course Presentation Files

Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10
Session 11

Indri Indexer (166MB)
Indri Search Part I (147MB)
Indri Search Part II (32MB)

Other recommended texts:

1. Selected papers from SIGIR, TREC, MUC, TDT, ACL and the WWW. (Distributed in class or downloadable from the course group)
2. Readings in Information Retrieval, Edited by Karen Spark Jones and Peter Willett, Morgan Kofmann, 1997 William B. Frakes, Richardo Baeza-Yates, Information Retrieval Data Strucutres & Algorithms, Prentice Hall 1992.
3. David Ellis, New Horizons in Information Retrieval, Library Association Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-85365-778-5.
4. D. C. Blair, Languages and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier 1990, ISBN 0-444-88437-8.
5. G. Salton and M. McGill, An Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval , McGraw-Hill, 1983.
6. F. Cheong, Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and Bots . Indianapolis, IN : New Riders, 1996.
7. E. Charniak, Statistical Language Learning , MIT Press, 1993.