== Useful Readings ==

• Introduction to Information Retrieval /*I do love this book.*/
• Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice
• Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
• Wikipedia in academic studies
• Modern Information Retrieval
• VideoLectures - exchange ideas & share knowledge
• MIT Open Courseware

== Research Groups ==

• Glasgow Information Retrieval Group
• The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
• Microsoft Research Group
• Yahoo Research(Computational advertising)
• Illinois Institute of Technology
• Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
• Society for Iranian Linguistics

== Test Collections ==

• Hamshahri Corpus
• CSIRO Enterprise Research Collection
• Wikipedia Database
• LETOR: Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Rank
• Reuters Corpus

== Conferences ==

• TREC
• SIGIR
• Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
• INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX)
• ACM Student Research Competition

== Research Tools ==

• The Lemur Toolkit for Language Modeling and Information Retrieval
• Weka-Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning
• TERabyte RetrIEval (TERRIER)
• Java Wikipedia Library (JWPL)
• Java Wiktionary Library (JWKTL)
• Wikipedia Miner Toolkit
• Wikiprep Preprocessing Tool
• The Boost Graph Library (BGL)
• WebBase Project-Crawling,Indexing,...
• Text-Garden -- Text-Mining Software Tools

== Other Useful Resources ==

• The Commencement address by Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. /*A great lecture by a lovely man*/