Samir Abdou

IR softwares

• Lucene (full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java)
• Nutch (web search engine based on Lucene)
• Smart (system developed in C at Cornell University in the 1960s)
• Terrier (system developed in Java at the University of Glasgow)

IR groups

• University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (J. Savoy)
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA (B. W. Croft, J. Allan)
• Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK (S. E. Robertson)
• Carnegie Mellon University, USA (J. Callan)
• University of Glasgow, UK (K. van Rijsbergen)
• RMIT, Melbourne, Australia (J. Zobel, R. Sacks-Davis)
  
  

IR campaigns and conferences

• Text REtrieval Conference, TREC
• Cross-language Evaluation Forum (European languages), CLEF
• NII-NACSIS Test Collection for IR systems (Asian languages), NTCIR
• Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, SIGIR
• Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS
• COnférence en Recherche d'Information et Applications, CORIA
• Recherche d'Information Assisté par Ordinateur, RIAO
  
  

Scientific publications

• CiteSeer
• DBLP
• Science@Direct