Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-468) and index.

Boolean retrieval -- The term vocabulary and postings lists -- Dictionaries and tolerant retrieval -- Index construction -- Index compression -- Scoring, term weighting, and the vector space model -- Computing scores in a complete search system -- Evaluation in information retrieval -- Relevance feedback and query expansion -- XML retrieval -- Probabilistic information retrieval -- Language models for information retrieval -- Text classification and Naive Bayes -- Vector space classification -- Support vector machines and machine learning on documents -- Flat clustering -- Hierarchical clustering -- Matrix decompositions and latent semantic indexing -- Web search basics -- Web crawling and indexes -- Link analysis.