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Information Analysis and Retrieval
The Information Analysis and Retrieval specialization is designed to teach students the skills and concepts needed to understand how information is stored in computer systems, how it is searched and analyzed, and how humans access it.

Job Sites

Web IR & IE http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/webir/
KDnuggets http://www.kdnuggets.com/

Professional Organizations

Association for Computing Machinery http://www.acm.org/
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/
Web Analytics Association http://www.webanalyticsassociation.org/index.asp
List of Professional Associations in the Information Sciences http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/resources/orgs.htm
ASIS&T: The American Society for Information Science and Technology http://www.asis.org/
ACL – Association for Computational Linguistics http://www.aclweb.org/

Listservs & Newsletters

SIG-IRList http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/sigirlist/index.html

Blogs & Forums

Research Buzz http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/
Hal Daume III http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/
Information Engineering http://lada.si.umich.edu:8080/wordpress/
Data Mining Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media http://datamining.typepad.com/
ResearchBuzz! http://www.researchbuzz.org/2005/09/google_launches_a_blog_search.shtml
Google Blogoscoped http://blogoscoped.com/

Student Organizations at SI

SOCHI – Student Organization for Computer-Human Interaction http://www.si.umich.edu/SOCHI/
SIMPLE - Society for Information Management, Policy, Law and Economics http://www.si.umich.edu/simple/

Potential Employers

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) http://www.parc.com/
Google Yahoo!
Live.com (Microsoft) http://www.live.com/
Amazon
Time Warner
Thomson Corporation
Ask.com
Shopzilla, Inc
Internet Archive
IBM PowerSelf http://www.powerself.com/index.htm
Microsoft Live Labs

Sample Job Titles

Computational Linguist
Natural Language Engineer
Search Network Analyst
Test Mining Specialist
Search Engineer
Search Engine Engineer
Language Engineer
Information Analyst
Text Analyst
Web Analyst
Competitive Intelligence Analyst
Information Designer/Analyst
Web Search Relevance Engineer
Scientist Software Engineer, Search and Indexing
Video Search Software Engineer
Search Content Analytics Research Engineer

Professional Magazines and Journals

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology http://toit.acm.org/
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing http://tslp.acm.org/
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing http://talip.acm.org/
Computational Linguistics http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?linked=1&part=affil&idx=J25&coll=ACM&dl=ACM
Data & Knowledge Engineering http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505608/description?navopenmenu=-2
D-Lib Magazine http://www.dlib.org/ Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval http://www.nowpublishers.com/ir/
Government Computer News http://www.gcn.com/
Information Processing Letters http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505612/description#description
Information Processing and Management (IP&M)http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/description#description
Information Retrieval http://springerlink.metapress.com/content/103814/
Information Research http://informationr.net/ir/
Information Processing & Management: An International Journal http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/244/description
International Journal on Digital Libraries http://www.dljournal.org/
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems http://www.worldscinet.com/ijcis/ijcis.shtml
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/imaging?SGWID=5-149-70-1122349-0
International Journal of Intelligent Information Systems http://www.springerlink.com/content/100289/
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/76501873
Journal of Digital Contents http://www.formatex.org/jdc/ Journal of Intelligent Information Systems http://www.springerlink.com/content/100289/
Journal of Web Semantics http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description#description
Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/
Natural Language Engineering http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=nle
Transactions On Information Systems http://www.acm.org/pubs/tois/
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering http://www.computer.org/portal/site/transactions/menuitem.a66ec5ba52117764cfe79d108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=tkde_home/&
Transactions on the Web http://www.acm.org/tweb/

Recruiters/Headhunters

CyberCoders http://softwareengineerjobs.cybercoders.com/
Red Mill Group http://redmillgroup.com/hotjobs.html

Information Analysis and Retrieval Related Websites

Association of Computational Linguistics Wiki/Resources www.ACLWeb.org/aclwiki
Collaborative Filtering http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/collab/
National Centre for Text Mining (UK) http://www.nactem.ac.uk/
National Research Council – Institute for Information Technology (Canada) http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/r-d/analysis-info-analyse_e.html
O’Reilly XML.com Information Search and Retrieval http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/Information_Search_and_Retrieval
ISI Web of Knowledge http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?Init=Yes&SID=2Ej2IMGgN9@6EE6do59
Microsoft Libra http://libra.msra.cn/Default.aspx
InformationR.net http://informationr.net/
Digital information in the Information Research field http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/
Rexa http://www.rexa.com
ASK.com http://www.ask.com


Open Source Information Retrieval Systems
Nutch http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/
Glimpse and Webglimpse http://webglimpse.net/subfeatures/features.html
ht://dig http://www.htdig.org/
Lemur Language Modelling IR Toolkit http://www.lemurproject.org/
Lucene [5] Apache Jakarta project http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/
MG full-text retrieval system Now maintained by the Greenstone Digital Library Software Project http://www.nzdl.org/html/mg.html
Smart Early IR engine from Cornell University ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/smart/
Terrier TERabyte RetrIEveR, Information Retrieval Platform, written in Java http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier/
Wumpus multi-user information retrieval system http://www.wumpus-search.org/
Xapian Open source IR platform based on Muscat http://www.xapian.org/
Zebra GPL structured text/XML/MARC boolean search IR engine supporting Z39.50 and Web Services http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra/
Zettair, compact and fast search engine written in C, able to handle large amounts of text http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/zettair/

Other Retrieval Tools
iHOP Information retrieval system for the biomedical domain http://www.ihop-net.org/UniPub/iHOP/
MEDIE An intelligent search engine, retrieving biomedical events from Medline http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/medie/
EBIMed Information retrieval (and extraction) system over Medline http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/ebimed/index.jsp
Info-PubMed Protein interaction database with 200,000 gene/protein names mined from Medline https://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info-pubmed/
Sphinx Free SQL full-text search engine http://www.sphinxsearch.com/
Michigan Molecular Interaction Database http://mimi.ncibi.org/MiMI/help.jsp

Major Information Retrieval Research Groups
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at UMASS http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/
Information Retrieval at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/Research/projects.html#ir
Information Retrieval at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) http://research.microsoft.com/ir/
Glasgow Information Retrieval Group (Scotland) http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/
CIR Centre for Information Retrieval (Hungary) http://www.dcs.vein.hu/CIR/
Centre for Interactive Systems Research at City University, London (UK) http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/organisation/is/research/cisr/
IIT Information Retrieval Lab http://www.ir.iit.edu/
Information Retrieval Group at Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) http://www2.unine.ch/iiun/page4246.html
PSU Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory http://iis.ist.psu.edu/
Information and Language Processing Systems at the University of Amsterdam http://ilps.science.uva.nl/
Information Retrieval Laboratory, Harbin Institute of Technology (mainly in Chinese) http://www.ir-lab.org/
Information Retrieval Group at the University of Waterloo (Canada) http://www.ir.uwaterloo.ca/
Information Retrieval Group at the Queen Mary University of London (UK) http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/researchgp/ir/ Information Retrieval Lab at the University of A Coruña (Spain) http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/ir/
Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval (CLAIR) http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/
CLAIR NSIR http://tangra.si.umich.edu/clair/NSIR/html/nsir.cgi

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