IR book by Bruce Croft

Title: Search Engines Information Retrieval in Practice by Prof. Bruce Croft
Link: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/irbook/

Intro: This book provides an overview of the important issues in information retrieval, and how those issues affect the design and implementation of search engines. Not every topic is covered at the same level of detail. The focus is on some of the most important alternatives to implementing search engine components and the information retrieval models underlying them. The target audience for the book is advanced undergraduates in computer science, although it is also a useful introduction for graduate students. (from the link)

 

SciVerse

http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-applications
http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery

Elsevier SIGIR 2011 Application Challenge: http://developer.sciverse.com/SIGIR2011

Important Dates

+ Startdate: June 6, 2011
+ Enddate: July 23, 2011
+ Judging starts: July 24, 2011
+ Judging ends: July 26, 2011
+ Announcement of the Winners: July 26, 2011

Prizes

+ First prize: 1,500 USD (VISA gift card)
+ Second prize: 1,000 USD (VISA gift card)
+ Third prize: 500 USD (VISA gift card)

Interested Papers at SIGIR 2011

SIGIR 2011 accepted papers link: http://www.sigir2011.org/papers.htm

My Interested Papers:
1) Summarizing the Differences in Multilingual News
Xiaojun Wan, Houping Jia

2) Multifaceted Toponym Recognition for Streaming News
Michael Lieberman, Hanan Samet

3) Toward Social Context Summarization For Web Documents
Zi Yang, cai keke, Jie Tang, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, Juanzi Li

4) Evolutionary Timeline Summarization: a Balanced Optimization Framework via Iterative Substitution
Rui Yan, Xiaojun Wan, Jahna Otterbacher, Liang Kong, Yan Zhang, Xiaoming Li

5) The Economics in Interactive Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi

6) Composite Hashing with Multiple Information Sources
Dan Zhang, Fei Wang, Luo Si

7) Inverted Indexes for Phrases and Strings
Manish Patil, Sharma V. Thankachan, Rahul Shah, Wing-Kai Hon, Jeffrey Vitter, Sabrina Chandrasekaran

8) Multimedia Answering: Enriching Text QA with Media Information
Liqiang Nie, Meng Wang, Zha Zhengjun, Li Guangda, Tat Seng Chua

9) SCENE : A Scalable Two-Stage Personalized News Recommendation System
Lei Li, Dingding Wang, Tao Li

10) Ranking Related News Predictions
Nattiya Kanhabua, Roi Blanco, Michael Matthews

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Cheers,
Vu

Clair library

The Clair Library - A Perl package for Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Network Analysis.

Just a note for further reference!

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Vu