Research Prototypes and other software

• • Lemur: Toolkit for language modeling and information retrieval

  • MG: Managing Gigabytes fast search engine

  • Porter Stemmer: stemming algorithm

  • Terrier: A full-text search engine

  • Zettair: A full-text search engine

  • Lucene/Solr

Evaluation Resources

• • TREC: Text REtrieval Conference

Test Collections

• • SMART test collections (including Cranfield)

• • TREC test collections

  • Glasgow test collections

Books

• • Introduction to Information Retrieval, Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

  • Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack, MIT Press, 2010.

  • Information retrieval. van Rijsbergen, C.J., Butterworths, 1979.

  • Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines, Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack, MIT Press, 2010.

  • Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. Salton, G. and McGill, M.J., McGraw-Hill, 1983.

  • Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice. W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman, Pearson Education, 2009

  • The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Ingwersen, P., and Jarvelin, K., Springer, 2005.