Useful Links

Courses/Teachers

• James Allan, UMass, Amherst (Information Retrieval, Web Search)
• Jamie Callan, CMU
• Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT, Bombay
• Marti Hearst, UC, Berkeley
• Prabhakar Raghavan, Stanford University
• Theo van der Weide, Nijmegen Institute for Computing and Information Sciences

Some research groups

• CIIR, UMass, Amherst
• LTI, CMU
• NLP and IR group, NIST
• University of Glasgow

Conference proceedings

• ACM SIGIR
• TREC
• WWW
• CIKM

Misc. links

• WebIR
• www.informationretrieval.org