Appendix D. A Core Library for Enterprise Search

This is a personal selection of books on information retrieval and search that represent a core library for a search support team. The list excludes books on specific search applications so that the list is vendor neutral.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search, Second Edition (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011).

Marcia J. Bates (editor), Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Management, Types, and Standards (Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach Publications, 2011).

Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke, and Gordon V. Cormack, Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010).

G. G. Chowdhury, Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval (London: Facet Publishing, 2010).

W. Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice (Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2010).

Susan Feldman, The Answer Machine (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2012).

Nigel Ford, Introduction to Information Behaviour (London, UK: Facet Publishing, 2015).

Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber, Search-Based Applications: At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies (San Rafael, CA: Morgan and Claypool, 2010).

Marti A. Hearst, Search User Interfaces (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval ...

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