Introduction to Information Retrieval
http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval-book.html
"The book aims to provide a modern approach to information retrieval from a computer science perspective. It is based on a course we have been teaching in various forms at Stanford University and at the University of Stuttgart. "
UCI KDD Archive
http://kdd.ics.uci.edu
"This is an online repository of large data sets which encompasses a wide variety of data types, analysis tasks, and application areas."
In search of the deep Web
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/09/deep_web
"The "deep Web" is the great lode of databases, flight schedules, library catalogs, classified ads, patent filings, genetic research data and another 90-odd terabytes of data that never find their way onto a typical search results page."
QProber: A System for Automatic Classification of Hidden-Web Databases
http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ideas/index.php?aid=351&func=display&module=articles&ptid=1
Research on N-Grams in Information Retrieval
http://www.cs.umbc.edu/ngram
Support Vector Machines - The Book
http://www.support-vector.net
Natural Language Toolkit in Python
http://nltk.sourceforge.net