Information Retrieval Links
Orgranisations / conferences
- ACM SIGIR (Special interest group on Information Retrieval)
- TREC (Text Retrieval Conference)
- ECDL 2000 (Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries)
- RIAO 2000 (on Content-Based Multimedia Information Access)
- Werkgemeenschap Informationwetenschap
- EUNICE 2000 Summer School on Innovative Internet Applications, here in Twente
- ELSNET 2000 Summer School on Text and Speech Triggered Information Access at Chios, Greece
- ESSIR 2000European Summer School in Information Retrieval, Varenna, Italy
Journals
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science
- Information Processing & Management
- International Journal on Digital Libraries
- Journal of Documentation
- Information Retrieval
- D-Lib magazine
Books
- Van Rijsbergen (1977) Information Retrieval, on-line version! Butterworths
- Frakes and Baeza-Yates, eds. (1992) Information Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms plus source code, Prentice Hall
- Witten, Moffat and Bell (1994) Managing Gigabytes plus software, Van Nostrand-Reinhold
- Korfhage (1997) Information Storage and Retrieval, John Wiley & Sons
- Kowalski (1997) Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation, Kluwer
- Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, eds. (1999) Modern Information Retrieval (mirror site) Addison-Wesley
Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR)
- Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources
(gives a very complete overview of CLIR resources; by Doug Oard) - Multilingual Information Retrieval
(Christian Fluhr, Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology, 1996) - AAAI Spring
Symposium on Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval.
(with electronic working wotes, 1997) - Cross- Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) (at CNR Pisa)
- NTCIR (NACSIS Test Collection for IR Systems) Project
- Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization (TIDES)
Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR)
- TREC-8 spoken document retrieval track
- Speech recongnition links at NIST
- European Speech Communication Association (ESCA)
(ESCA is a non-profit organization for promoting Speech Communication Science and Technology in a European context) - Roeland Orldeman's links
Distributed / networked information retrieval
Latent semantic indexing (LSI)
Experimental Systems
- Twenty-One (demonstrator)
- SMART (ftp site)
Smart tutorial for beginners (on Paai's home page) - OKAPI (project page)
- InQuery (an overview of the retrieval engine)
- Z / PRISE (its installation, use & modification)
- Muscat (open source version)
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