Worth the price, especially for those in the teaching biz. -tj =====================================================
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart. We'd be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook, what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please send any feedback or comments to: informationretrieval (at) yahoogroups (dot) com Online resources Apart from small differences (mainly concerning copy editing and figures), the online editions should have the same content as the print edition. The following materials are available online. The date of last update is given in parentheses. HTML edition (2009.04.07) PDF of the book for online viewing (with nice hyperlink features, 2009.04.01) PDF of the book for printing (2009.04.01) PDFs of individual chapters (2009.04.01) slides (2011.08.16) exercises (2009.03.27) errata (2009.03.31) 8th European Summer School on information Retrieval (2011.08.28)
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