Introduction to Information Retrieval

Publication date
Digital publication date: 05 June 2012
Physical publication date: 07 July 2008
Christopher D. Manning Stanford University, California,
Prabhakar Raghavan Google, Inc., Hinrich Schütze Universität Stuttgart
Subjects
Computer Science,
Data Science, Databases, Data Mining, and Information Retrieval
Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including
web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives
an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering,
indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use
of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples
and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced
undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive
classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural
and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through
the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

Prices
eTextbook US$57.00, ISBN: 9780511809071
Key features
- Introduces all key concepts, requiring little prior knowledge
- All concepts are illustrated with figures and examples
- Supporting web site features lecture slides that follow the book, and a solutions manual for lecturers

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511809071
About the book
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 July 2008, ISBN: 9780521865715
253 x 177 mm, 1.03Kg, 506 pages
Format: Digital
Publication date: 05 June 2012, ISBN: 9780511809071

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Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Table of Notation
Preface
1 - Boolean retrieval
2 - The term vocabulary and postings lists
3 - Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval
4 - Index construction
5 - Index compression
6 - Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model
7 - Computing scores in a complete search system
8 - Evaluation in information retrieval
9 - Relevance feedback and query expansion
10 - XML retrieval
11 - Probabilistic information retrieval
12 - Language models for information retrieval
13 - Text classification and Naive Bayes
14 - Vector space classification
15 - Support vector machines and machine learning on documents
16 - Flat clustering
17 - Hierarchical clustering
18 - Matrix decompositions and latent semantic indexing
19 - Web search basics
20 - Web crawling and indexes
21 - Link analysis
Bibliography
Index

Reviews
'This is the first book that gives you a complete picture of the complications that arise in building a
modern web-scale search engine. You'll learn about ranking SVMs, XML, DNS, and LSI. You'll
discover the seedy underworld of spam, cloaking, and doorway pages. You'll see how MapReduce
and other approaches to parallelism allow us to go beyond megabytes and to efficiently manage
petabytes.'
Peter Norvig - Director of Research, Google Inc.
'… this book sets a high standard …'

'Introduction to Information Retrieval is a comprehensive, authoritative, and well-written overview of

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the main topics in IR. The book offers a good balance of theory and practice, and is an excellent
self-contained introductory text for those new to IR.'

'This book provides what Salton and Van Rijsbergen both failed to achieve … Even more important,
unlike some other books in IR, the authors appear to care about making the theory as accessible as
possible to the reader, on occasion including short primers to certain topics or choosing to explain
difficult concepts using simplified approaches. … its coverage [is] excellent, the quality of writing high
and I was surprised how much I learned from reading it. I think the online resources are impressive.'

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