Introduction to Information Retrieval (pdf/html)

http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html

by danso • 15 years ago

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klt08252• 15 years ago

I actually used this as a supplement to Modern Information Retrieval (http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Information-Retrieval-Concepts-...) for my IR class this semester. I found the Stanford book to be much more detailed in terms of the mathematical formalities behind the models/concepts and ended up preferring it.

jshen3• 15 years ago

how does Modern Information Retrieval compare? I've read the intro to IR book, is it worth reading Modern Information Retrieval as well?

klt08252• 15 years ago

MIR seemed to have broader coverage of evaluation metrics for IR systems, better coverage of UI related concerns such as interface design, better coverage of Multimedia retrieval and better coverage of web-search.

I liked intro to IR better for almost everything else. For the size of MIR, the coverage of things like LSI, Clustering and Probabilistic Models seemed shallow in comparison.

mark_l_watson• 15 years ago

This is a good book - I bought a copy 2 years ago. If you use tools like Mahout this book gives a good background on K-means, etc.

I think perhaps the word "Introduction" in the title is a little misleading because the book has good coverage and depth - recommended. Nice that they have it free online.

jshen3• 15 years ago

This is a great book. I've read it a couple of times.

Introduction to Information Retrieval (pdf/html)

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