Introduction to Information Retrieval

Introduction to Information Retrieval

This is the companion website for the following book.

Christopher D. Manning , Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze , Introduction to Information Retrieval , Cambridge University Press. 2008.

The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart .

We'd be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook, what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please send any feedback or comments to:

Print edition

The book is currently at the printer and should be available end of July .

HTML edition

You can browse the HTML edition of the book here .

PDF edition

A preliminary version of the book is available for download. Last update: May 27, 2008. PDF for online viewing (with nice hyperlink features). PDF for printing (best for black and white printers). These PDFs will remain online after the publication of the print edition.

Links to individual chapters can be found in the table of contents at the bottom of this page.

Slides

Slides that are somewhat out of date are available . We are in the process of creating an updated set of slides here .

Solutions to exercises

Solutions to the exercises in the book are available from Cambridge University Press .

Information retrieval resources

A list of information retrieval resources is also available.

Introduction to Information Retrieval: Table of Contents

		chapter	slides	resources
	Front matter (incl. table of notations)	pdf
01	Boolean retrieval	pdf	slides
02	The term vocabulary & postings lists	pdf	slides
03	Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval	pdf	slides
04	Index construction	pdf	slides
05	Index compression	pdf	slides
06	Scoring, term weighting & the vector space model	pdf	slides
07	Computing scores in a complete search system	pdf	slides
08	Evaluation in information retrieval	pdf	slides
09	Relevance feedback & query expansion	pdf	slides
10	XML retrieval	pdf	slides
11	Probabilistic information retrieval	pdf	slides
12	Language models for information retrieval	pdf	slides
13	Text classification & Naive Bayes	pdf	slides
14	Vector space classification	pdf	slides
15	Support vector machines & machine learning on documents	pdf	slides
16	Flat clustering	pdf	slides	html
17	Hierarchical clustering	pdf	slides
18	Matrix decompositions & latent semantic indexing	pdf	slides
19	Web search basics I	pdf	slides
	Web search basics II		slides
20	Web crawling and indexes	pdf	slides
21	Link analysis	pdf	slides
	Bibliography & Index	pdf
	bibtex file	bib