Information retrieval : searching in the 21st century

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ZA3075 .I55 2009
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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.

Contents

  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 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 IIR Evaluation Model
  • 2.5 Summary
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 3 Multimedia Resource Discovery Stefan Rüger
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 6 Mobile Search David Mountain and Hans Myrhaug and Ayse Göker
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 7 Context and Information Retrieval Ayse Göker and 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 9 Semantic Search John Davies and Alistair Duke and Atanas Kiryakov
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.3 Meta-data 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 10 The Role of Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval: Searching for Meaning and Structure Tony Rose
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • 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
  • Exercises
  • References
  • Solutions to Exercises
  • Index

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