This is the companion website for the following book. Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008. You can order this book at CUP, at your local bookstore or on the internet. The best search term to use is the ISBN: 0521865719. The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a co

Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a young ACM conference intended to be the publication venue for research in the areas of search and data mining. Indeed, the pace of innovation in these areas prevents proper coverage by conferences of broader scope. The high attendance at the first two WSDMs, held at Stanford University and Barcelona in

NTCIR-9 runs seven tasks: Intent (INTENT), Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE), Geotemporal Information Retrieval (GeoTime), IR for Spoken Documents (SpokenDoc), Cross-Lingual Link Discovery (CrossLink), Interactive Visual Exploration (Vis-Ex) and Patent Machine Translation (PatentMT) Hideo Joho and I are working as the evaluation co-chairs of NTCIR-9. Also, I am one of the task organisers of INT

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ISMIR 2009 has concluded. We had 308 participants from 29 countries. Thank you all for your contributions to the conference! See you in Utrecht, Netherlands for ISMIR 2010! The Tenth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference will take place October 26-30, 2009 (Monday through Friday), in Kobe, Japan. Looking at the recent rapid growth of ISMIR conferences since its inception