Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search, 2nd edition

This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science perspective. It provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of information retrieval including extensive coverage of new topics such as web retrieval, web crawling, open source search engines and user interfaces.

From parsing to indexing, clustering to classification, retrieval to ranking, and user feedback to retrieval evaluation, all of the most important concepts are carefully introduced and exemplified. The contents and structure of the book have been carefully designed by the two main authors, with individual contributions coming from leading international authorities in the field, including Yoelle Maarek, Senior Director of Yahoo! Research Israel; Dulce Poncele´on IBM Research; and Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research USA.

This completely reorganized, revised and enlarged second edition of Modern Information Retrieval contains many new chapters and double the number of pages and bibliographic references of the first edition, and a companion website www.mir2ed.org with teaching material. It will prove invaluable to students, professors, researchers, practitioners, and scholars of this fascinating field of information retrieval.

• Up-to-date coverage of IR applied to text data; IR applied to multimedia; IR visualization and IR applications.
• Chapters by leading international authorities in the field of IR including Yoelle Maarek, Senior Director of Yahoo! Research Israel; Dulce Poncele´on IBM Research; and Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research USA
• Broad coverage with a Web focus.

• Completely revised throughout with extended chapters and new chapters.

• New contributions from  Marcos Gon,calves, Yoelle Maarek, Carlos Castillo, Mounia Lalmas, Dulce Poncele´on, Malcolm Slaney, David Hawking and Christian Middleton

• Updated companion website with lecturer resources including PowerPoint slides