Information Retrieval Surveys

These surveys typically address a focused topic in the broad area of information retrieval. I have listed here surveys on topics that are clearly central to information retrieval; additional surveys on related topics can be found on the Web site of each series. Links to freely available versions are provided when available; others are available through Research Port at the University of Maryland Libraries.

Longer Surveys

These surveys are the length of short books, typically about 100 pages.

Now Publishers
- Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
  1. Music Retrieval: A Tutorial and Review (2006)
  2. Open-Domain Question Answering (2007)
  3. Email Spam Filtering: A Systematic Review (2008)
  4. Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval: A Critical Review (2008)
  5. Concept-Based Video Retrieval (2009)
  6. Methods for Evaluating Interactive Information Retrieval Systems with Users (2009)
  7. Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (2009)
  8. The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and beyond (2009)
  9. Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge (2009)
  10. Web Crawling (2010)
  11. Test Collection Based Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems (2010)
  12. Adversarial Web Search (2011)
  13. Federated Search (2011)
  14. Spoken Content Retrieval: A Survey of Techniques and Technologies (2012)
  15. Information Retrieval on the Blogosphere (2012)
  16. Expertise Retrieval (2012)
  17. Contextual Search: A Computational Framework (2012)
  18. Patent Retrieval (2013)
  19. Information Retrieval for E-Discovery (2013)
  20. Arabic Information Retrieval (2014)
  21. Semantic Matching in Search (2014)
  22. Music Information Retrieval: Recent Developments and Applications (2014)
  23. LifeLogging: Personal Big Data (2014)
  24. Computational Advertising: Techniques for Targeting Relevant Ads (2014)
  25. Search Result Diversification (2015)
  26. Temporal Information Retrieval (2015)
  27. Information Retrieval with Verbose Queries (2015)
  28. Credibility in Information Retrieval (2015)
  29. Online Evaluation for Information Retrieval (2016)
  30. Semantic Search on Text and Knowledge Bases (2016)
  31. A Survey of Query Auto Completion in Information Retrieval (2016)
  32. Aggregated Search (2017)
  33. Searching the Enterprise (2017)
  34. Display Advertising with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) and Behavioural Targeting (2017)
  35. Web Forum Retrieval and Text Analytics: A Survey (2018)
- Foundations and Trends in Human Computer Interaction
  1. Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems (2011)
- Foundations and Trends in Web Science
  1. From Keyword Search to Exploration: Designing Future Search Interfaces for the Web (2010)
Morgan and Claypool Publishers
- Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services
  1. Exploring Context in Information Behavior (2017)
  2. Fuzzy Information Retrieval (2017)
  3. The Notion of Relevance in Information Science (2016)
  4. Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling (2016)
  5. Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines (2015)
  6. Click Models for Web Search (2015)
  7. Information Retrieval Models: Foundations and Relationships (2013)
  8. Search User Interface Design (2011)
  9. Information Retrieval Evaluation (2011)
  10. Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies (2010)
  11. Estimating the Query Difficulty in Information Retrieval (2010)
  12. Collaborative Web Search: Who, What, Where, When and Why (2009)
  13. Multimedia Information Retrieval (2009)
  14. XML Retrieval (2009)
  15. Faceted Search (2009)
  16. Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (2009)
- Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies
  1. Learning to Rank for IR and NLP (2014)
  2. Cross-Language Information Retrieval (2010)
  3. Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (2010)
  4. Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval (2008)
- Synthesis Lectures on Data Management
  1. Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration (2012)
  2. Full-Text (Substring) Indexes in External Memory (2011)
  3. Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology (2010)
  4. Web Page Recommendation Models: Theory and Algorithms (2010)
- Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy and Trust
  1. Private Information Retrieval (2013)
- Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
  1. Interacting with Information (2010)
Springer
- The Information Retrieval Series
  1. Social Information Seekng (2017)
  2. Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval (2017)
  3. Music Similarity and Retrieval (2016)
  4. Introduction to Information Retrieval and Quantum Mechanics (2015)
  5. Collaborative Information Seeking (2012)
  6. A Feature-Centric View of Information Retrieval (2011)
  7. A Generative Theory of Relevance (2009)
  8. Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search (2009)
- Springer Briefs on Computer Science
  1. Mobile Information Retrieval (2017)
  2. Visual Indexing and Retrieval (2012)

Shorter Surveys

These surveys are the length of journal articles, typically about 20 pages.

ACM Computing Surveys
1. On the Collaboration Support in Information Retrieval (2017)
2. Cross Domain Recommender Systems: A Systematic Literature Review (2017)
3. Text Stemming: Approaches, Applications, and Challenges (2016)
4. User Intent in Multimedia Search: A Survey of the State of the Art and Future Challenges (2016)
5. A Survey on Assessment and Ranking Methodologies for User-Generated Content on the Web (2016)
6. Automated Generation of Music Playlists: Survey and Experiments (2015)
7. Survey of Temporal Information Retrieval and Related Applications (2015)
8. Collaborative Filtering beyond the User-Item Matrix: State of the Art and Future Challenges (2014)
9. Multimedia Search Reranking: A literature survey (2014)
10. Aggregated Search: A new information retrieval paradigm (2014)
11. Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval: Current research and future trends (2013)
12. Translation Techniques in Cross-Language Information Retrieval (2012)
13. A Survey of Emerging Approaches to Spam Filtering (2012)
14. A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval (2012)
Advances in Information Science (JASIST)
1. A framework for evaluating automatic indexing or classification in the context of retrieval (2016)
2. Visual information seeking (2015)
3. Collaborative Information Seeking (2014)
4. Ranking Methods for Entity-Oriented Semantic Web Search (2014)
5. Social Q and A (2011)
6. Information Search and Retrieval in Microblogs (2011)

Doug Oard

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