Experiment Tools

Linear regression [Applet]	SVMs [Applets]
Naive Bayes [Applet]	PAC learning [Applets]
Logistic regression [Applet]	Java Bayes [Applet]
Discriminative v. Generative models [Applet]	K-Means [Applet]
Decision trees [Applet]	Mixture of Gausians [Applet]
Boosting [Adaboost Applet]	PCA [Applet]
Instance-based learning [Applet]	Reinforcement Learning [RL Sim Applet]
EM for estimating Gaussian mixtures

Conference Proceedings

• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
• SIGIR
• Digital Libraries (DL)
• Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
• World Wide Web

Datasets

• Wikipedia database [English] [French] [German]
• University of California Irvine Machine Learning Repository
  
• Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)
• Reuters-21578 Dataset
• International Conference of Weblogs and Social Media Dataset
• NIST
• The Linguistic Data Consortium
• LDC resources at CMU
• The Rosetta Project

Online Books

• P. Ingwersen. Information Retrieval Interaction. London: Taylor Graham, 1992.
• C. J. van Rijsbergen. Information Retrieval. London: Butterworths, 1979

Software and Tools

• The Porter stemmer
• Martin Porter's Porter algorithm Web page
• MXTERMINATOR English sentence boundary detector
• MXPOST English part of speech tagger
• Language ID tools
• R - free software environment for statistical computing and graphics