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Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treat-
ment 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.
Christopher D. Manning is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Lin-
guistics at Stanford University.
Prabhakar Raghavan is Head of Yahoo! Research and a Consulting Professor
of Computer Science at Stanford University.
Hinrich Sch
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utze is Chair of Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the In-
stitute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart.
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