Internet-accessible information retrieval tools for advanced DB/IR courses

ABSTRACT

A number of information retrieval tools are now freely available over the Internet, either as full production programs or demos. These programs illustrate a wide variety of IR techniques, and can allow students to gain realistic, hands-on experience with a variety of algorithms that were previously difficult to discuss other than in theory. In addition, many of these programs are associated with computing-related document collections that in and of themselves are useful for computer science students.

REFERENCES

• 1: William Myers, Instructional uses of demonstration disks, Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education, p.76-79, March 10-12, 1994, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• 2: Gerard Salton , Michael J. McGill, Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1986
• 3: Ian H. Witten , Alistair Moffat , Timothy C. Bell, Managing gigabytes (2nd ed.): compressing and indexing documents and images, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1999

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION

General Terms:
Documentation, Theory