Geek Answers Handbook

Search for books on computer science, information retrieval

Here is what I have on my list so far. I would like to learn about others in the same vein, perhaps more technical, perhaps less

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Freedom, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion - Ableson, Leeden, and Lewis
Deafness: Mastering Information Through the Ages - Wright
Information Rules - Varian and Shapiro
Web dragons: inside search engine myths - Witten, Gori, and Numerico

There are several examples that I saw in the field of text mining, they include: Web Data Mining - Liu

Modern Information Search - Baeza-Yates, Ribiero-Neto

Also search for blog recs like
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/blog/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Information.html

or documents like Opening a structural form

+4
source share
5 answers
  • "SIGIR" - conference
  • "TREC" - conference
  • Baeza-Yates, Ribeiro-Neto, "Modern Information Retrieval" (1999)
  • Witten, "Gigabyte Management" (1999)
  • van Rijsbergen, "Information Search" (1979)

- obvious "bibles" (as mentioned above).

  • Büttcher, Clarke, Cormack, "Information Search: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines" (2010)

- An interesting new textbook (student-level), full of bibliographic references. It contains a good explanation of parallel search algorithms (example chapter).

  • Croft, Metzler, Stroman, "Search Engines: An Information Search in Practice" (2009)

has good reviews; I didn’t really like it (read the example chapters on the Croft homepage).

  • Voorhees, Harman, "Trec: An Experiment and Evaluation in Information Retrieval" (2009)

- A good introduction to the TREC approach in assessing IR.

  • Langville, Meyer, "Google Pagerank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Ranking" (2006)

Explains how to efficiently calculate PageRank.

+4
source

An introduction to information retrieval seems to be the recommended text these days for basic technology; It was released in 2008, and I have not read it yet. (Full text is available for free.) Gigabyte management, as TimB recommended, is my favorite old book; it is much better written than the modern search for information, although it is also worth a look. There you can find an obvious search .

+3
source

Gigabyte Management - Witten, Moffat and Bell : A pretty detailed look at some of the technologies for finding information, compressing text and images, (Disclaimer: My university supervisor is the second author.)

You should also be aware of ACM SIGIR , which organizes an annual information retrieval conference and has a mailing list .

+2
source

As a book Introduction to information retrieval , as mentioned.

I think the best cutting-edge information is publications published on several academic sites and conference documents (SIGIR, CIKM, SPIRE, WWW009, ...).

Example:.

0
source

Information Search - The introduction and evaluation of search engines was published by MIT in 2010 and is a very good book on the acquisition of practical knowledge about information search. Stefan Butcher, Charles Clark and Gordon Cormack are the authors of this book. Butcher was a doctoral student of Clark, and Clark was a doctoral student of Cormac. In total, they collected about 50 years of their research and experience in this book. It must be read !!!

0
source

More articles:


All Articles