Looking for books on Information Science, Information Retrieval
information-retrieval
Solution
- "SIGIR" - the conference
- "TREC" - the conference
- Baeza-Yates, Ribeiro-Neto, "Modern Information Retrieval" (1999)
- Witten, "Managing Gigabytes" (1999)
- van Rijsbergen, "Information Retrieval" (1979)
are the obvious "bibles" (as mentioned above).
- Büttcher, Clarke, Cormack, "Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines" (2010)
is an interesting new textbook (student-level), full of biliographic references. It contains a good explanation of parallel retrieval algorithms (sample chapter).
- Croft, Metzler, Strohman, "Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice" (2009)
has good reviews; I didn't like it too much (read the sample chapters on Croft's homepage).
- Voorhees, Harman, "Trec: Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval" (2009)
is a good introduction to the TREC approach in evaluating IR.
- Langville, Meyer, "Google's Pagerank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings" (2006)
explains how to efficently compute PageRank.
Problem
Here's what I have on my list so far. I'd like to know of others in the same vein, perhaps more technical, perhaps less Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion - Ableson, Leeden, and Lewis Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages - Wright Information Rules - Varian and Shapiro Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology - Witten, Gori, and Numerico There are a few I've seen on text mining, they include Web Data Mining - Liu Modern Information Retrieval - Baeza-Yates, Ribiero-Neto Also looking for blog recs like http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/ http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Information.html or papers like The Discovery of Structural Form