Information retrieval : searching in the 21st century / Ayse Goker, John Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goker, Ayse.

Contributor:

Davies, J. (N. John)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information retrieval.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book is an essential reference to cutting-edge issues and future directions in information retrieval Information retrieval (IR) can be defined as the process of representing, managing, searching, retrieving, and presenting information. Good IR involves understanding information needs and interests, developing an effective search technique, system, presentation, distribution and delivery. The increased use of the Web and wider availability of information in this environment led to the development of Web search engines. This change has brought fresh challenges to a wider variety of users' needs, tasks, and types of information. Today, search engines are seen in enterprises, on laptops, in individual websites, in library catalogues, and elsewhere. Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century focuses on core concepts, and current trends in the field. This book focuses on: Information Retrieval Models User-centred Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems Multimedia Resource Discovery Image Users' Needs and Searching Behaviour Web Information Retrieval Mobile Search Context and Information Retrieval Text Categorisation and Genre in Information Retrieval Semantic Search The Role of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval: Search for Meaning and Structure Cross-language Information Retrieval Performance Issues in Parallel Computing for Information Retrieval. This book is an invaluable reference for graduate students on IR courses or courses in related disciplines (e.g. computer science, information science, human-computer interaction, and knowledge management), academic and industrial researchers, and industrial personnel tracking information search technology developments to understand the business implications. Intermediate-advanced level undergraduate students on IR or related courses will also find this text insightful. Chapters are supplemented with exercises to stimulate further thinking"--Provided by publisher.

"The aim of this book is to provide a basis for understanding recent developments in the field and to outline directions for information search technologies. The text presents significant contributions to the research community and industry, covering topics such as the semantic search, natural language processing, parallel information retrieval, image and multimedia retrieval, text categorisation, context technology, cross-language retrieval, and mobile information services. The book is a balanced mixture of theory, practice, tools and applications"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Introduction

1 Information Retrieval Models (Djoerd Hiemstra)

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Exact Match Models

1.3 Vector Space Approaches

1.4 Probabilistic Approaches

1.5 Summary and Further Reading

Exercises

References

2 User-centred Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems (Pia Borlund)

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The MEDLARS Test

2.3 The Okapi Project

2.4 The Interactive IR Evaluation Model

2.5 Summary

3 Multimedia Resource Discovery (Stefan RŠuger)

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Basic Multimedia Search Technologies

3.3 Challenges of Automated Visual Indexing

3.4 Added Services

3.5 Browsing: Lateral and Geotemporal

3.6 Summary

4 Image Users' Needs and Searching Behaviour (Stina Westman)

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Image Attributes and Users' Needs

4.3 Image Searching Behaviour

4.4 New Directions for Image Access

4.5 Summary

5 Web Information Retrieval (Nick Craswell and David Hawking)

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Distinctive Characteristics of the Web

5.3 Three Ranking Problems

5.4 Other Web IR Issues

5.5 Evaluation of Web Search Effectiveness

5.6 Summary

6 Mobile Search (David Mountain, Hans Myrhaug and Aydse GŠoker)

6.1 Introduction: Mobile Search / Why Now?

6.2 Information for Mobile Search

6.3 Designing for Mobile Search

6.4 Case Studies

6.5 Summary

7 Context and Information Retrieval (Aydse GŠoker, Hans Myrhaug and Ralf Bier)

7.1 Introduction

7.2 What is Context?

7.3 Context in Information Retrieval

7.4 Context Modelling and Representation

7.5 Context and Content

7.6 Related Topics

7.7 Evaluating Context-aware IR Systems

7.8 Summary

8 Text Categorisation and Genre in Information Retrieval (Stuart Watt)

8.1 Introduction: What is Text Categorisation?.

8.2 How to Build a Text Categorisation System

8.3 Evaluating Text Categorisation Systems

8.4 Genre: Text Structure and Purpose

8.5 Related Techniques: Information Filtering

8.6 Applications of Text Categorisation

8.7 Summary and the Future of Text Categorisation

9 Semantic Search (John Davies, Alistair Duke and Atanas Kiryakov)

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Semantic Web.

9.3 Metadata and Annotations

9.4 Semantic Annotations: the Fibres of the Semantic Web

9.5 Semantic Annotation of Named Entities

9.6 Semantic Indexing and Retrieval

9.7 Semantic Search Tools

9.8 Summary

10 The Role of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval: Searching for Meaning and Structure (Tony Russell-Rose and Mark Stevenson)

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Natural Language Processing Techniques

10.3 Applications of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval

10.4 Discussion

10.5 Summary

11 Cross-Language Information Retrieval (Daqing He and Jianqiang Wang)

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Major Approaches and Challenges in CLIR

11.3 Identifying Translation Units

11.4 Obtaining Translation Knowledge

11.5 Using Translation Knowledge

11.6 Interactivity in CLIR

11.7 Evaluation of CLIR Systems

11.8 Summary and Future Directions

12 Performance Issues in Parallel Computing for Information Retrieval (Andrew MacFarlane)

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Why Parallel IR?

12.3 Review of Previous Work

12.4 Distribution Methods for Inverted File Data

12.5 Tasks in Information Retrieval

12.6 A Synthetic Model of Performance for Parallel Information Retrieval

12.7 Empirical Examination of Synthetic Model

12.8 Summary and Further Research

Solutions to Exercises

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781282471603

1282471600

9780470033630

0470033630

9780470033647

0470033649

OCLC:

476299637