WWW links
Organisations / conferences
- ACM
SIGIR:
Special interest group on Information Retrieval
- TREC:
Text Retrieval Conference (trec_eval: TREC evaluation tool)
- TRECVID: TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation
- CIKM:
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
- SIKS: Dutch research school for
Information and Knowledge Systems
- INFWETWG:
Werkgemeenschap Informatiewetenschap
- INEX:
Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval
- WEBIST: Web Information Systems Technologies
Journals
Books
- Van Rijsbergen (1977) Information Retrieval,
on-line version! Butterworths
- Frakes and Baeza-Yates, eds. (1992) Information
Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms,
Prentice Hall
- Witten, Moffat and Bell (1994) Managing Gigabytes
plus software, Van
Nostrand-Reinhold
- Kowalski (1997) Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, Kluwer
- Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, eds. (1999) Modern Information Retrieval
(mirror site)
Addison-Wesley
- Michael Stonebraker, Joseph M. Hellerstein, (eds.)
Readings in Database Systems, 3rd Edition
Research road maps
- Asilomar Report: The Asilomar Report on Database Research,
SIGMOD Record 27(4), December 1998
- Amherst Report:
Challenges in Information Retrieval and Language Modeling,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2002
- Lowell Report:
The Lowell Database Research Self-Assessment, Lowell Massachusetts,
4-6 May 2003
- Claremont Report:
Rakesh Agrawal et al. The Claremont report on database research. Communications of the ACM 52(6), June 2009
- SIGIR 2002 CLIR workshop report: Cross-language information retrieval: a research road map
Experimental Systems
- SMART (ftp site, see also the Smart
tutorial by
Paimans)
- Okapi
(Engine developed at City University, London)
- InQuery (an overview of the retrieval engine developed at U.
Massachusets,
Amherst)
- Z / PRISE
(Retrieval system supporting Z39.50 developed by NIST)
- MIRROR
(project page)
- Twenty-One (demonstrator)
- LEMUR:
Toolkit for language modeling and information retrieval
- Lucene:
full-featured text search engine written in Java
- PF/Tijah: open source XQuery / Text Search system
- Xapian: open source probabilistic Information Retrieval library
- Zettair: search engine designed and written by the Search Engine Group at RMIT University, formerly known as Lucy.
- Nutch: open-source web search engine based on Lucene.
- OpenFTS: A PostgreSQL extension for full text search.
- Terrier: TERabyte RetrIEveR, open source retrieval engine written in Java.
- Zebra: good for indexing and searching highly structured data, Z39.50 interface.
- Wumpus: engine that tracks file changes.
- Hyper Estraier: a full-text search system for communities
- ht://Dig: WWW Site Search Software
- Swish-e: Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced
- Beagle: desktop search
- Sphinx: SQL Phrase Index, open-source SQL full-text search engine
- Galago: toolkit for experimenting with text search
Cross-language information
retrieval
Spoken Document Retrieval
Content-based Image Retrieval
Collaborative Filtering
More Information Retrieval links
Some web search engines
Searching scientific content
Database conferences
Experimental and open source
database tools
Game theory and computer science
- GameComm: International Workshop on
Game Theory in Communication Networks
Trash and other expired links