Resources

Information Retrieval
Fall 2019
CSCI-539-01

We will be making use of primarily three textbooks (available online, and through MyCourses):

Search User Interfaces (Marti Hearst; UC Berkeley)
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice (Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman; University of Massachussets at Amherst). Java-based Galago search engine code referred to in the text can be found here.
Introduction to Information Retrieval (Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze; Stanford University, University of Stuttgart, and the University of Munich)

References on writing (all should be reasonably inexpensive as paperback/digital downloads):

Evaluation tools

trec_eval: standard tool used for evaluating retrieval effectiveness in international competitions (e.g., TREC, NTCIR, CLEF, FIRE). This is the official C implementation version 9.04.

Here is a (small) sample of IR courses at other institutions.

IR Course at UMass (James Allen): https://people.cs.umass.edu/~zamani/cs646
IR Course at Stanfrod (Chris Manning and Pandu Nayak): http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs276
IR Course at Univ. Maryland, College Park (Douglas Oard): http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/teaching/734/spring18