The first two are certainly a great place to start. The second edition of "Introduction to Information Retrieval" in particular is an excellent resource, and fairly recent. Beyond that, I would suggest diving into the code of Lucene itself.
-- Avi On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Joseph Lewis <joehm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The dev list didn't quite seem the right place to put this, but this is > mostly a question for the developers: > > Are there any books/papers on the theory behind Lucene that would be > beneficial if I were looking at learning how FTS engines worked; all I can > seem to find is "Introduction to Information Retrieval" the original paper > that introduced Google and another from a masters student studying in > Helsinki. Anything else anybody would recommend? > > Thanks, > - Joseph >