CSCI 379 (Information Retrieval and Web Search) -- Xiannnong Meng

CSCI 379: Information Retrieval and Web Search

Fall 2002--Xiannong Meng

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Main Reading materials:
- Modern Information Retrieval, by Richardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto.
  A U.S. mirror site is at www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hearst/irbook/.
- Information Retrieval, by Van Rijsbergen, available on-line www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html.
Other reference books include
- Automatic Text Processing by Gerard Salton, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
- Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW, by Richard K. Below, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanders, Brokers, and Bots, by Fah-Chun Cheong, New Riders Publishers, 1996.
- Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, by Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
- Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery, by Krzysztof Cios, Witold Pedrycz, Roman Swiniarski, Kluwer, 1998.
Important research papers
- Mei Kobayashi and Koichi Takeda, "Information Retrieval on the Web", ACM Computing Surveys, 32(2), pp. 144-173, 2000.
- Raymond Kosala and Hendrik Blockeel, "Web Mining Research: A survey", SIGKDD Explorations, July 2000, 2(1), pp. 1-15.
- Z. Wu, W. Meng, C. Yu, and Z. Li, "Towards a highly-scalable and effective metasearch engine", WWW10, 2001.
- Sergey Melnik, Sriram Raghavan, Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Monina, "Building a distributed full-text index for the Web", WWW10, 2001.
- Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron E. Dom, David Gibson, Jon Kleinbeig, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan and Andrew Tomkins, "Mining the Link Structure of the World Wide Web", WWW10, 2001.
- R. Srikant and Y. Yang, "Mining Web log to improve Website organization", WWW10, 2001.
- L. Finkelstein, E. Gabrilovich, Y. Matias, E. Rivlin, Z. Solan, G. Wolfman, and E. Ruppin, "Placing search in context: The concept revisited".
- D. Haines and W. Bruce Croft, "Relevance Feedback and Inference Networks",
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