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Modern information retrieval

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACM PressPublication details: UK Addison Wesley 1999Description: 464p., 234 x 156mm, Illustrations, paperbackISBN:
  • 9780201398298
  • 020139829X
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Information Retrieval/Database ManagementModern Information RetrievalRicardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-NetoWe live in the information age, where swift access to relevant information in whatever form or medium can dictate the success or failure of businesses or individuals. The timely provision of relevant information with minimal 'noise' is critical to modern society and this is what information retrieval (IR) is all about. It is a dynamic subject, with current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and the development of reliable and low-cost mass storage devices. Modern Information Retrieval discusses all these changes in great detail and can be used for a first course on IR as well as graduate courses on the topic.The organization of the book, which includes a comprehensive glossary, allows the reader to either obtain a broad overview or detailed knowledge of all the key topics in modern IR. The heart of the book is the nine chapters written by Baeza-Yates and Ribeiro-Neto, two leading exponents in the field. For those wishing to delve deeper into key areas there are further state-of-the-art ch

This textbook on information retrieval takes a computer science perspective. It includes coverage of various applications of information retrieval including: text data; multimedia; and visualizations. It offers a broad coverage with a Web focus.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 User Interfaces for Search
  • 3 Modeling
  • 4 Retrieval Evaluation
  • 5 Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion
  • 6 Documents: Languages & Properties
  • 7 Queries: Languages & Properties
  • 8 Text Classification
  • 9 Indexing and Searching
  • 10 Parallel and Distributed IR
  • 11 Web Retrieval
  • 12 Web Crawling
  • 13 Structured Text Retrieval
  • 14 Multimedia Information Retrieval
  • 15 Enterprise Search
  • 16 Library Systems
  • 17 Digital Libraries
  • A Open Source Search Engines
  • B Biographies
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and mass storage devices. As a result., traditional IR textbooks have become quite out of date and this has led to the introduction of new IR books. Nevertheless, we believe that there is still great need for a book that approaches the field in a rigorous and complete way from a computer-science perspective (as opposed to a user-centered perspective). This book is an effort to partially fulfill this gap and should be useful for a first course on information retrieval as well as for a graduate course on the topic. The book comprises two portions which complement and balance each other. The core portion includes nine chapters authored or co-authored by the designers of the book. The second portion, which is fully integrated with the first, is formed by six state-of-the-art chapters written by leading researchers in their fields. The same notation and glossary are used in all the chapters. Thus, despite the fact that several people have contributed to the text, this book is really much more a textbook than an edited collection of chapters written by separate authors. Furthermore, unlike a collection of chapters, we have carefully designed the contents and organization of the book to present a cohesive view of all the important aspects of modern information retrieval. From IR models to indexing text, from IR visual tools and interfaces to the Web, from IR. multimedia to digital libraries, the book provides both breadth of coverage and richness of detail. It is our hope that, given the now clear relevance and significance of information retrieval to modern society. the book will contribute to further disseminate the study of the discipline at information science, computer science, and library science departments throughout the world. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Santiago, Chile Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. Belo Horizonte, Brazil January, 1999 020139829XP04062001 Excerpted from Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology behind Search by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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