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Introduction to information retrieval / Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Christopher D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Text processing (Computer science).
- Information retrieval.
- Document clustering.
- Semantic Web.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 482 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering. Written from a computer science perspective, it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents and of methods for evaluating systems, along with an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections.
- Designed as the primary text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in information retrieval, the book will also interest researchers and professionals. A complete set of lecture slides and exercises that accompany the book are available on the web.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-468) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780521865715
- 0521865719
- OCLC:
- 190786122
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Companion web site
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