Resources for CS/INFO 630, Spring 2006: Representing and accessing digital information
Reference texts: (* = on reserve this semester at the Engineering Library
at Carpenter Hall. Some links may only be available to Cornellians.)
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information
Retrieval (1999). Portions available online. US mirror. (*)
- Rik Belew, Finding
Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and
the WWW
(2000). Portions are available online. (*)
- W. Bruce Croft and John Lafferty, editors, Language Modeling
for Information Retrieval (2003).
- William B. Frakes and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Information
Retrieval: Data Structures & Algorithms (1992). (*)
- Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language
Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing,
Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition
(2000). Portions and new/updated chapters available online. (*)
- Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schuetze, Foundations of
Statistical Natural Language Processing (1999). Completely online. (*)
- Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber. Prolog and
Natural-Language Analysis. (1987). Completely online.
- C. J. van Rijsbergen, Information
Retrieval, second edition (1979). Entirety available online. Alternate version
without indexing and without page divisions.
- Karen Spärck Jones and Peter Willett. Readings in
Information Retrieval (1997). Reprints many of the classic papers.
Other courses with relevant lecture notes/slides online:
- William Y. Arms, Information
Retrieval. Cornell, Fall 2005.
- Claire Cardie, Introduction
to Natural Language Processing. Cornell, Fall 2005.
- Marti Hearst and Ray Larson, Information
Organization and Retrieval. Berkeley, Fall 2000.
- Rong Jin, Information
retrieval. Michigan State, Fall 2005.
- ChengXiang Zhai, Introduction
to Text Information Systems. UIUC, Fall 2004
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