Gary Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Salton, Gerald and McGill, Michael J. /Introduction to Modern > Information Retrieval/. McGraw-Hill, 1983.
Not only hard to get ahold of these days, but really really really out of date. This book should be of historical interest only. Frakes and Baeza-Yates book "Modern Information Retrieval" isn't bad, but is a bit sparse on particular algorithms. It has nice references, so you'll know where to go for details. Managing Gigabytes is also a bit outdated, but has wonderful implementation details. No theory whatsoever, except regarding compression. Grossman and Frieder's book, "Information Retrieval, Algorithms and Heuristics", is out in a second (and much cheaper, too!) edition, probably the most up-to-date textbook. The proceedings of ACM SIGIR is where the most cutting-edge stuff in text retrieval is done. Available online via ACM's digital library if you're an ACM member. The TREC proceedings are free online at http://trec.nist.gov/. Some classic theory papers that appeared in SIGIR have the implementation details in the TREC paper (for example, Robertson's OKAPI paper in TREC-3). For straight "Lucene-style" text search, look for the ad hoc, robust, web, and genomics tracks. Ian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
