General Resources

Test Collections

We are now responsible for distributing the following TREC collections: WT2G, WT10G, .GOV, .GOV2 and BLOGS06

Terrier

Our Java framework for the rapid development of IR and search systems is available under the Mozilla Public License.

Information Retrieval

Online version of the book by Keith van Rijsbergen - Hypertext/CD-ROM version

A Unified model for IR?

Video of Keith van Rijsbergen presenting Salton Honored - A SMART Celebration: A Unified Model for IR? in 1995.

IR Resources

A collection of links to local and remote accumulations of IR stuff.

Seminar Archive

Slides from a selection of previous IR seminars

IRList

We maintain a searchable archive of the mailing list IRList (now SIG-IRList) (up to Vol.19, 1999).

Probablistic IR

The slides of the talk 'Everything you wanted to know about probabilistic IR but were too ashamed to ask' by Keith van Rijsbergen.

SIGIR 93 / 94 Photographs

Photographs from SIGIR 93 in Pittsburgh, USA and SIGIR 94 in Dublin, Ireland.