Introduction to Information Retrieval

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This is the companion website for the following book.


Introduction to Information Retrieval

This is the companion website for the following book.

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich SchĂŒtze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008.

You can order this book at CUP, at your local bookstore or on the internet. The best search term to use is the ISBN: 0521865719.

The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Munich.

We’d be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook, what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please send any feedback or comments to: informationretrieval (at) yahoogroups (dot) com

Online resources

Apart from small differences (mainly concerning copy editing and figures), the online editions should have the same content as the print edition.

The following materials are available online. The date of last update is given in parentheses.

Information retrieval resources

A list of information retrieval resources is also available.

Introduction to Information Retrieval: Table of Contents

 chapter     resources
Front matter (incl. table of notations)pdf
01  Boolean retrievalpdf html
02The term vocabulary & postings listspdf html
03Dictionaries and tolerant retrievalpdf html
04Index constructionpdf html
05Index compressionpdf html
06Scoring, term weighting & the vector space modelpdf html
07Computing scores in a complete search systempdf html
08Evaluation in information retrievalpdf html
09Relevance feedback & query expansionpdf html
10XML retrievalpdf html
11Probabilistic information retrievalpdf html
12Language models for information retrievalpdf html
13Text classification & Naive Bayespdf html
14Vector space classificationpdf html
15Support vector machines & machine learning on documentspdf html
16Flat clusteringpdf htmlhtml
17Hierarchical clusteringpdf html
18Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexingpdf html
19Web search basicspdf html
20Web crawling and indexespdf html
21Link analysispdf html
Bibliography & Indexpdf
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