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INST 734
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2018
IR Books and Papers

Online Sources for IR Publications

• Surveys on Specific Topics
  • Foundations and Trends series
  • Morgan and Claypool Synthesis Lectures
  • Springer
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • JASIS Advances in Information Retrieval series
• ACM Digital Library (available on campus and through the University Libraries)
  • ACM SIGIR Conference Proceedings
  • ACM CHIIR Conference Proceedings
  • ACM ICTIR Onference Proceedings
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Proceedings
  • ACM Multimedia Conference Proceedings
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (a core IR journal)
• Other Core Information Retrieval Journals (available through the University Libraries)
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Retrieval
  • Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• Information Retrieval Evaluation Venues (all with online proceedings)
  • Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) (USA)
  • NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR) (Pacific Rim)
  • Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) (Europe)
  • Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) (India)
• Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Many conference proceedings, available on campus and through ResearchPort. The final version of early CLEF proceedings are available here.)
• D-Lib Magazine (ceased publication in 2017)

Some books on information retrieval

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Rubiero-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2010.
• W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler and Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice, Pearson Education, 2009.
• William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, ed., Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice-Hall, 1992.
• David A. Grossman and Ophir Frieder, Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics, Kluwer Academic, 2004.
• Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Heinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Karen Sparck-Jones and Peter Willet, ed., Readings in Information Retrieval, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997.
• Tomek Strzalkowski, ed., Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 1999.
• Ian H. Witten, Alaitair Moffat, and Timmothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes, Morgan Kaufmann, Second Edition, 1999.
• See also the list that accompanies the Manning et al. book.

Sources of Technical Reports

• CiteSeer (with cached versions of the preprint versions for many papers. This is the predecessor to Google Scholar.)
• Computing Research Repository
• Cornell Computer Science Technical Reports (an excellent source for some of the best pre-TREC experimental work on IR)