Introduction to Information Retrieval

Class-tested and up-to-date textbook for introductory courses on information retrieval. Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents, methods for evaluating systems, and an introduction to the use of machine ...