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LBSC 796/INFM 718R
Information Retrieval Systems
Spring 2011
Sources of IR Books and Papers

Some other books on information retrieval

• Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Rubiero-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval, Second Edition, Addison Wesley, 2010.
• Ian H. Witten, Alaitair Moffat, and Timmothy C. Bell, Managing Gigabytes, Morgan Kaufmann, Second Edition, 1999.
• David A. Grossman and Ophir Frieder, Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics, Kluwer Academic, 2004.
• William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, ed., Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms, Prentice-Hall, 1992.
• Tomek Strzalkowski, ed., Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer, 1999.
• Karen Sparck-Jones and Peter Willet, ed., Readings in Information Retrieval, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1997.
• David C. Blair, Language and Representation in Information Retrieval, Elsevier Science, 1990.
• See also the list that accompanies the MRS textbook.

Online Sources for IR Papers

• ACM Digital Library (available on campus through ResearchPort)
  • ACM SIGIR Conference Proceedings
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Proceedings
  • ACM Multimedia Conference Proceedings
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (a core IR journal)
  • Communications of the ACM (a broad coverage journal)
• Other Core Information Retrieval Journals (available through ResearchPort\ )
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Retrieval
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
• Information Retrieval Evaluation Venues (all with online proceedings)
  • Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) (U\ SA)
  • NII Test Collection Information Retrieval Project (NTCIR) (Pacific Rim)
  • Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) (Europe)
  • Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) (India)
• Sources of Technical Reports (all focused on the Computer Science side of the field)
  • 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)
  • Maryland Computer Science Technical Reports (to see what other local folks have been up to)
• Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Many conference proceedings, available on campus and through ResearchPort. The final version of CLEF proceedings apper here about a year after each workshop.)
• D-Lib Magazine