Associations / Networks / Research Cooperations

• ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
• SIGIR Asia Pacific Web Site
• NIST Natural Language Processing & Information Retrieval Group Home Page
• Text REtrieval (TREC) Home Page
• The British Computer Society, Information Retrieval Specialist Group

Universities

• Center for Information Retrieval (CIR), University of Veszprem
• Information Retrieval Lab, Illinois Institute of Technology
• The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Information Systems Group, University of Dortmund, Germany
  • Publications of the Chair for Information Retrieval
• Information Systems Group, University of Nijmegen
• M.M.I.R. research group at CEDAR, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • Resource Lists

Projects

• The Clever Project
• Interspace Research Project
• IRIS: Information Retrieval Interactive System
• Yahoo Planet
• Google Search Engine
• PADRE text retrieval (Parallel Document Retrieval Engine)
• TAR (Text and Associated Research) Project
• The Web Archeology Project
• CMU World Wide Knowledge Base project
• Utrecht Project: Linguistic Information for Free Text Retrieval
• Project Aristotle(sm): Automated Categorization of Web Resources
• SONIA Project (Service for Organizing Networked Information Autonomously)
• ImageRover

General Information & Links

• Links2Go: Information Retrieval
• Information Resource Center for Information Retrieval
• RISE: Repository of Online Information Sources Used in Information Extraction Tasks
• Web IR & IE
• Machine Learning Applied to Information Retrieval
• Information Retrieval URL's
• Information Retrieval Links
  • Information Retrieval Groups around the World
• Information Retrieval Research Groups around the World
• Scott Weiss' Home Page
  • Survey of Information Retrieval
  • Information Retrieval Papers
• A Bibliography of my Information Retrieval Collection (by Jay Jiang)
• Information Retrieval Bibliographies
• Information Retrieval Links
• Glasgow IDOM - IR resources
  • Test collections
• Free Database List
• Computational Methods for Intelligent Information Access
• Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources
• KD Mine: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources Index
  • Tools (Siftware) for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• The Data Mine - Data Mining and KDD information
• IR and LSI Bibliography

Information Filtering

• Information Filtering Project (University of Maryland)
  • Information Filtering Resources
  • Freely Available Information Filtering Systems
• Profile - More on Information Filtering
• Intelligent Message Filtering
• Information Filtering Bibliography
• Information Filtering Literature
• A Conceptual Framework for Text Filtering

Latent Semantic Indexing

• Telcordia Technologies Latent Semantic Indexing
  • LSI papers
• Latent Semantic Indexing (University of Tennesee)
• Latent Semantic Analysis (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Readings in Latent Semantic Analysis for Cognitive Science and Education
• Knowledge Representation and Latent Semantic Analysis
• Demonstration of Automatic Essay Grading with LSA
• Latent Semantic Analysis of Knowledge Forum™ Databases
• Resources for Latent Semantic Indexing
• LSI Researchers
  • Michael W. Berry (University of Tennessee)
  • Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research)
  • Hongyuan Zha (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Thomas Hofmann (Brown University)
  • Shih-Hao Li
  • Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Dianne P. O'Leary (University of Maryland)
  • Peter Foltz (New Mexico State University)
  • Michael L. Littman (Duke University)
  • Thomas K. Landauer (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  • Noah Coccaro (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  • Christos H. Papadimitriou (University of California at Berkeley)
  • James Blustein (University of Western Ontario)
  • Ian Soboroff (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
  • Chris H.Q. Ding (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• LSI-related online papers
  • Parallizing the SVD Computation (Lanczos Algorithm) for Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) of a Very Large, Sparse Matrix
  • Cross-Language LSI
  • Peter Foltz's recent papers
  • Using High-dimensional Semantic Spaces Derived from Large Text Corpora
  • Retrieval Performance in FERRET: A Conceptual Information Retrieval System
  • Portable Parallel Preconditioning
  • Cat-a-Cone: An Interactive Interface for Specifying Searches and Viewing Retrieval Results using a Large Category Hierarchy
  • Using an Intelligent Agent to Enhance Search Engine Performance
  • Information Retrieval of Imperfectly Recognized Handwriting
  • Models for Interacting Populations of Memes: Competition and Niche Behavior
  • Improving Human-Proceedings Interaction: Indexing the CHI Index

Text Summarization

• PERTINENCE
• The Text Summarization Project (Knowledge Acquisition & Machine Learning Research Group, University of Ottawa)
• Summarization Resources
• The Sheffield University Summarisation WWW Page
  • References related to Summarisation listed by Authors
• Summarization
• SUMMARIST: Automated Text Summarization
  • Indicator Phrase Package
• Summarizing Text for Intelligent Communication - Dagstuhl Seminar 13.12.-17.12.1993, Dagstuhl, Germany
• Extractor: Text Summarization Software

• Software and test collections (Cornell University)
  • Cranfield collection - 1398 abstracts (numbered 1 through 1400). Aerodynamics.
  • Medlars collection - 1033 abstracts (numbered 1 through 1033). Medical.
  • Time magazine collection - World news articles from 1963 Time magazine.
• SMART: Tutorial for beginners
• Doug Oard's Research Software Page - SMART Modifications
• SMART Related Documents

Search Engine

• Search Engine Software For Your Web Site

Online Proceedings and Papers

• SIGIR'98 Workshop on Hypertext IR for the Web
  August 28, 1998.
• WebNet Journal: Internet Technologies, Applications & Issues
• TREC: Text REtrieval Conference
• Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb98)
• SIGIR Conference Proceedings on Information Retrieval
• The 2nd Workshop on Multilinguality in Software Industry: The AI Contribution (MULSAIC'97)
  August 25, 1997.
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval Electronic Working Notes
• SIGIR-97 Workshop on Networked Information Retrieval
• Hypertext 97: Proceedings of The Eighth ACM Conference on Hypertext
• Sixth International World Wide Web Conference: Hyperproceedings
• Sixth International World Wide Web Conference: Hyperproceedings
  (http://atlanta.cs.nchu.edu.tw/www/ToC.html)
• Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
• Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
• Workshop on Data Engineering for Inductive Learning
• Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
• Information Retrieval Reference System
• Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval: Publications
• GURU Publications
• Literature about search services

Books

• Modern Information Retrieval (Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto)
  Chile mirror, USA mirror
• Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell)
• Information Retrieval (C. J. van Rijsbergen)
• Information Retrieval: Data Structures and Algorithms
  Edited by William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates Prentice-Hall, 1992 ISBN: 0-13-463837-9
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Journals

• Journal of the American Society for Information Science
• Information Retrieval

Lectures, Courses

• CS525I Information Retrieval Systems
• Topics in Information Retrieval and Data Mining
• SIMS 202: Information Organization and Retrieval
• SIMS 296a-4: Text Data Mining
• Intelligent Information Retrieval
• LIS 385T.6: Concepts of Information Retrieval
• 15-850: Algorithms for Indexing and Searching
• CS 491/691 - Data-driven Information Processing
• CS 494 - Information Retrieval
• Information Access: Issues for the Web & Digital Libraries
• Text-Based Information Systems (1998)
• Text-Based Information Systems (1997)
• CS838 - Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
• CS5604 - Information Storage and Retrieval
• Distributed Information Services and Environments
• Information Retrieval
• CPS 370: Using the Web to Solve Crossword Puzzles

Misc.

• Web Mining
• Webmining - Bibliography
• IR Systems Design & Evaluation
• SAIC Information Extraction
• Alistair Moffat's Page
  • Exploring the Similarity Space
• Web Mining: Information and Pattern Discovery on the World Wide Web
• Research on N-Grams in Information Retrieval
• WEBSOM - Self-Organizing Map for Internet Exploration
• Agent-based Information Retrieval
• Fuzzy Matching as a Retrieval-Enabling Technique for Digital Libraries
• Elke Mittendorf's Page
• Image and Multimedia Retrieval