{{Useful Resources}}
[[Useful Readings]] [[Research
Groups]] [[Test Collections]]
[[Conferences]] [[Research
Tools]]
[[Other Useful Resources]]
== 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*/