Introduction to Information Retrieval

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 computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart and the University of Munich.

We'd be pleased to get feedback about how this book works out as a textbook, what is missing, or covered in too much detail, or what is simply wrong. Please send any feedback or comments to: informationretrieval (at) yahoogroups (dot) com

Online resources

Apart from small differences (mainly concerning copy editing and figures), the online editions should have the same content as the print edition.

The following materials are available online. The date of last update is given in parentheses.

• HTML edition (2009.04.07)
• PDF of the book for online viewing (with nice hyperlink features, 2009.04.01)
• PDF of the book for printing (2009.04.01)
• PDFs of individual chapters (2009.04.01)
• Stanford slides and assignments (2013.09.13)
• University of Munich slides and assignments (2013.09.13)
• errata (2009.03.31)
• 8th European Summer School on information Retrieval (2011.08.28)

Information retrieval resources

A list of information retrieval resources is also available.