Course Specifications for CS 371R:
Information Retrieval and Web Search

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Java programming, data structures, and algorithms.
Textbook: Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze (see linked website for on-line version, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008).
Recommended Supplementary Texts:
Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice by W. B. Croft, D. Metzler, and T. Strohman, Pearson Education, 2009.
Modern Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
Finding Out About by R.K. Belew, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
Readings in Information Retrieval Edited by Karen Sparck Jones and Peter Willett
Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data Soumen Chakrabarti, Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
Managing Gigabytes : Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell.

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