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Info retrieval resources

A curated list of resources and information on algorithms and techniques for improving the relevance and efficiency of searching and retrieving information from digital sources.

A curated list of awesome information retrieval resources

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Awesome Information Retrieval / Books

Introduction to Information Retrieval C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze. Cambridge UP, 2008. (First book for getting started with Information Retrieval)
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice Bruce Croft, Don Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. 2009. (Great book for readers interested in knowing how Search Engines work. The book is very detailed)
Modern Information Retrieval R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto. Addison-Wesley, 1999
Information Retrieval in Practice B. Croft, D. Metzler, T. Strohman. Pearson Education, 2009
Mining the Web: Analysis of Hypertext and Semi Structured Data S. Chakrabarti. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002
Language Modeling for Information Retrieval W.B. Croft, J. Lafferty. Springer, 2003. (Handles Language Modeling aspect of Information Retrieval. It also extensively details probabilistic perspective in this domain, which is interesting)
Information Retrieval: A Survey Ed Greengrass, 2000. (Comprehensive survey of Conventional Information Retrieval, before Deep Learning era)
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval G.G. Chowdhury. Neal-Schuman, 2003. (Intended for students of library and information studies)
Text Information Retrieval Systems C.T. Meadow, B.R. Boyce, D.H. Kraft, C.L. Barry. Academic Press, 2007 (library/information science perspective)

Awesome Information Retrieval / Courses

INF384H / CS395T / INF350E: Concepts of Information Retrieval (and Web Search) Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin)
CS 276 / LING 286: Information Retrieval and Web Search Chris Manning and Pandu Nayak (Stanford University)
CS 371R: Information Retrieval and Web Search Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas at Austin)
CS 172: Introduction to Information Retrieval Vagelis Hristidis (University of California - Riverside)
SIMS 240: Principles of Information Retrieval Ray R. Larson (UC berkeley)
11-442 / 11-642: Search Engines Jamie Callan (CMU)
600.466: Information Retrieval and Web Agents David Yarowsky (John Hopkins University)
CS 435: Information Retrieval, Discovery, and Delivery Andrea LaPaugh (Princeton University)
Information Retrieval and Data Mining Dr. Jilles Vreeken , Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum (MPI)
Coursera - Text Retrieval and Search Engines Prof. ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Awesome Information Retrieval / Software

Apache Lucene Open Source Search Engine that can be used to test Information Retrieval Algorithm. Twitter uses this core for its real-time search
The Lemur Project The Lemur Project develops search engines, browser toolbars, text analysis tools, and data resources that support research and development of information retrieval and text mining software

Awesome Information Retrieval / Software / The Lemur Project

Indri Search Engine Another Open Source Search Engine competitor of Apache Lucene
Lemur Toolkit Open Source Toolkit for research in Language Modeling, filtering and categorization

Awesome Information Retrieval / Datasets

DBPedia Linked data web
Cranfield Collections This is one of the first collections in IR domain, however the dataset is too small for any statistical significance analysis, but is nevertheless suitable for pilot runs
TREC Collections TREC is the benchmark dataset used by most IR and Web search algorithms. It has several tracks, each of which consists of dataset to test for a specific task. The tracks along with suggested use-case are:

Awesome Information Retrieval / Datasets / TREC Collections

Blog Explore information seeking behavior in the blogosphere
Chemical IR Address challenges in building large chemical testbeds for chemical IR
Clinical Decision Support Investigate techniques to link medical cases to information relevant for patient care
Confusion Study problem
Contextual Suggestion Investigate search techniques for complex information needs (context and user interests based)
Crowdsourcing Explore crowdsourcing methods for performing and evaluating search
Enterprise Study search over the organization data
Entity Perform entity-related search (find entities and their properties) on Web data
Filtering Binarily decide retrieval of new incoming documents given a stable information need
Federated Web Search Study merge performance for results from various search services
Genomics Study retrieval efficiency of genomics data and corresponding documentation
HARD Obtain High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents by leveraging searcher's context
Interactive Track Study user interaction with text retrieval systems
Knowledge base acceleration Study algorithms that improve efficiency of human Knowledge Base
Legal Track Study retrieval systems that have high recall for legal documents use case
Medical Track Explore unstructured search performance over patients record data
Microblog Track Examine satisfaction of real-time information need for microblogging sites
Million Query Track Explore ad-hoc retrieval over large set of queries
Novelty Track Investigate systems' abilities to locate new (non-redundant) information
Question Answering Track Test systems that scale beyond document retrieval, to retrieve answers to factoid, list and definition type questions
Relevance Feedback Track For deep evaluation of relevance feedback processes
Robust Track Study individual topic's effectiveness
Session Track Develop methods for measuring multiple-query sessions where information needs drift
SPAM Track Benchmark spam filtering approaches
Tasks Track Test if systems can induce possible tasks, users might be trying to accomplish for the query
Temporal Summarization Track Develop systems that allow users to efficiently monitor the information associated with an event over time
Terabyte Track Test scalability of IR systems to large scale collection
Web Track Explore information seeking behaviors common in general web search

Awesome Information Retrieval / Datasets

GOV2 Test Collection This is one of the largest Web collection of documents obtained from crawl of government websites by Charlie Clarke and Ian Soboroff, using NIST hardware and network, then formatted by Nick Craswel
NTCIR Test Collection This is collection of wide variety of dataset ranging from Ad-hoc collection, Chinese IR collection, mobile clickthrough collections to medical collections. The focus of this collection is mostly on east asian languages and cross language information retrieval

Awesome Information Retrieval / Datasets / NTCIR Test Collection

CLIR Test Collections This dataset can be used for cross lingual IR between CJKE (Chinese-Japanese-Korean-English) languages. It is suitable for the following tasks:
Cross Language Q&A (CLQA) dataset collection It supports following bi-lingua and mono-lingua:
Advanced Cross Linugal Information Retrieval and Question Answering (ACLIA) The dataset is used for the task of cross-lingual question answering but the complexity of the task is higher than CLQA dataset

Awesome Information Retrieval / Datasets

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) dataset It contains a multi-lingual document collection. The test suite includes:
Reuters Corpora The corpora is now available through NIST. The corpora includes following:
20 Newsgroup dataset This data set consists of 20000 newsgroup messages.posts taken from 20 newsgroup topics
English Gigaword Fifth Edition This data set is a comprehensive archive of English newswire text data including headlines, datelines and articles
Document Understanding Conference (DUC) datasets Past newswire/paper datasets (DUC 2001 - DUC 2007) are available upon request
CMU List
Stanford List
University of Tennesse Knoxville

Awesome Information Retrieval / Talks

Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation Manik Verma (Microsoft Research)
The next web Tim Berners-Lee (Ted Talk) [Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), overseeing the Web's standards and development]
Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration? Gary Flake, Technical Fellow at Microsoft (TED Talks)
Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems Jeff Dean (WSDM Conference, 2009)
Knowledge-based Information Retrieval with Wikipedia David Wilne (The University of Waikato, 2008)
Music Information Retrieval Using Locality Sensitive Hashing Steve Tjoa (RackSpace Developers) [This talk shows that IR is not just text and images]
The Functional Web -- The Future of Apps and the Web Liron Shapira (Box Tech Talk)
Information Experience - Solution to Information Overload on Web Doug Imbruce (Techcrunch Disrupt)[Doug Imbruce is the Founder of Qwiki, Inc, a technology startup in New York, NY, acquired by Yahoo! in 2013]
Internet Privacy Dr. Alma Whitten (Google Brussels Tech Talk)
The moral bias behind your search results Andreas Ekström (Swedish Author & Journalist, TED Talk)
Beware online "filter bubbles" Eli Pariser (Author of the Filter Bubble, TED Talk)
Think your email's private? Think again Andy Yen (CERN, TED Talk) [This talk talks about privacy, which Search Engines intrude into, and how can people protect it]
Do we have the right to be forgotten? Michael Douglas [TEDx SouthBank]
The case for anonymity online Christopher "moot" Poole" (Ted Talks) [Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering and influential subculture]

Awesome Information Retrieval / Conferences

WSDM Web Search and Data Mining Conference -
SIGIR Special Interests Group on Information Retrieval -
TREC Text REtrieval Conference -
ECIR European Conference on Information Retrieval -
WWW World Wide Web Conference -
CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management -
FIRE Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation -
CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum -
NTCIR NII Testsbeds and Community for Information access Research -

Awesome Information Retrieval / Blogs

Information Retrieval and the Web Google Research
IR Thoughts Dr. Edel Garcia
Deep Neural Network Learns to Judge Books by Their Covers Information Extraction
Can Deep Learning help solve Deep Learning Information Retrieval from Lip Reading
To reduce biases in machine learning start with openly discussing the problem Bias in Relevance
Whoa, Google’s AI Is Really Good at Pictionary Sketch-based search
Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces Information Extraction

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