2008 IntroductionToInformationRetrieval

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Subject Headings: Information Retrieval Task, Information Retrieval Algorithm.

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As recently as the 1990s, studies showed that most people preferred getting information from other people rather than from information retrieval systems. Of course, in that time period, most people also used human travel agents to book their travel. However, during the last decade, relentless optimization of information retrieval effectiveness has driven web search engines to new quality levels where most people are satisfied most of the time, and web search has become a standard and often preferred source of information finding. For example, the 2004 Pew Internet Survey (Fallows, 2004) found that “92% of Internet users say the Internet is a good place to go for getting everyday information. To the surprise of many, the field of information retrieval has moved from being a primarily academic discipline to being the basis underlying most people's preferred means of information access. This book presents the scientific underpinnings of this field, at a level accessible to graduate students as well as advanced undergraduates.

Information retrieval did not begin with the Web. In response to various challenges of providing information access, the field of information retrieval evolved to give principled approaches to searching various forms of content. The field began with scientific publications and library records, but soon spread to other forms of content, particularly those of information professionals, such as journalists, lawyers, and doctors. Much of the scientific research on information retrieval has occurred in these contexts, and much of the continued practice of information retrieval deals with providing access to unstructured information in various corporate and governmental domains, and this work forms much of the foundation of our book.

Nevertheless, in recent years, a principal driver of innovation has been the World Wide Web, unleashing publication at the scale of tens of millions of content creators. This explosion of published information would be moot if the information could not be found, annotated and analyzed so that each user can quickly find information that is both relevant and comprehensive for their needs. By the late 1990s, many people felt that continuing to index the whole Web would rapidly become impossible, due to the Web's exponential growth in size. But major scientific innovations, superb engineering, the rapidly declining price of computer hardware, and the rise of a commercial underpinning for web search have all conspired to power today's major search engines, which are able to provide high-quality results within subsecond response times for hundreds of millions of searches a day over billions of web pages.

Table of Contents

Front matter (incl. table of notations) pdf
01 Boolean retrieval pdf html
02 The term vocabulary & postings lists pdf html
03 Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval pdf html
04 Index construction pdf html
05 Index compression pdf html
06 Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model pdf html
07 Computing scores in a complete search system pdf html
08 Evaluation in information retrieval pdf html
09 Relevance feedback & query expansion pdf html
10 XML retrieval pdf html
11 Probabilistic information retrieval pdf html
12 Language models for information retrieval pdf html
13 Text classification & Naive Bayes pdf html
14 Vector space classification pdf html
15 Support vector machines & machine learning on documents pdf html
16 Flat clustering pdf html html
17 Hierarchical clustering pdf html
18 Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexing pdf html
19 Web search basics pdf html
20 Web crawling and indexes pdf html
21 Link analysis pdf html
Bibliography & Index pdf
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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2008 IntroductionToInformationRetrievalHinrich Schütze
Prabhakar Raghavan
Christopher D. Manning
Introduction to Information Retrievalhttp://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html2008