Information Retrieval Links
"What is the evidence, and what does it mean?" Bill James
IR Conferences
- TREC (Text REtrieval Conference)
(annual objective comparisions of different algorithms, U.S.-based)
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CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum)
(European version of TREC, e.g. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Russian;
CLEF
is pronounced "clay" (how the French pronounce "clef" (key))
)
- NTCIR
(Asian version of TREC, e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
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SIGIR (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
(academic conference)
- SIGIR 2004 (Sheffield, United Kingdom, July 25-29, 2004)
- SIGIR 2005 (Salvador, Brazil, Sept 2005)
- SIGIR 2006 (Seattle, USA)
- SIGIR 2003 (Toronto, Canada, July 28-Aug 1, 2003)
- SIGIR 2002 (Tampere, Finland, Aug 11-15, 2002)
- SIGIR 2001 (New Orleans, USA, Sept 9-13, 2001)
- SIGIR 2000 (Athens, Greece, July 24-28, 2000)
- SIGIR'99 (Berkeley, USA, Aug 15-19, 1999)
- SIGIR'98 (Melbourne, Australia, August 24-28, 1998)
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Search Engines Conference
(industry conference)
IR Resources
IR Books
-
Readings in Information Retrieval, 1997,
Sparck Jones and Willet, editors (collection of IR papers)
- Managing Gigabytes,
2nd edition, 1999, Witten, Moffat and Bell
(low-level details of coding an information retrieval system)
- Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms,
2003, Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi, Padhraic Smyth (up-to-date overview of IR field)
IR Journals
Evaluation of Web Search Engines
Web Search Engines
Newsgroup Search Engines
On-line Dictionaries & Thesauri
On-line Language Translators
Commercial Search Engines
Miscellaneous
Last Updated: 2003 Aug 30
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Stephen Tomlinson http://www.stephent.com/ir/links.html