Avi and Greg, all three of those look like great resources; I especially like the more practical ones. I suppose getting my hands dirty in the source wouldn't hurt too much either. ;)
Thanks, - Joseph -- http://josephlewis.net The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Greg Bowyer <gbow...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: > I have been finding this book > > "Information Retrieval Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines > (Büttcher, Clarke, Cormack)" > (http://mitpress.mit.edu/**catalog/item/default.asp?**ttype=2&tid=12307<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12307>< > http://mitpress.mit.edu/**catalog/item/default.asp?**ttype=2&tid=12307<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12307> > >) > > .... > an excellent read as well. > > Also there is the classic managing gigabytes which focuses a little more > on some of the practical elements of it rather than theory. > > Just my 2cents > > -- Greg > > On 03/07/12 11:21, Avi Rosenschein wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >
