Introduction to Information Retrieval

Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from a computer science perspective it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering indexing and searching documents and of methods for evaluating systems along with an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. Designed as the primary text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in information retrieval the book will also interest researchers and professionals. A complete set of lecture slides and exercises that accompany the book are available on the web.