
Information Retrieval Systems
Theory and Implementation
Gerald J. Kowalski(Author)
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 30. June 1997
Book
Hardback
XIII, 282 pages
978-0-7923-9926-1 (ISBN)
Description
The growth of the Internet and the availability of enormous volumes of data in digital form have necessitated intense interest in techniques to assist the user in locating data of interest. The Internet has over 350 million pages of data and is expected to reach over one billion pages by the year 2000. Buried on the Internet are both valuable nuggets to answer questions as well as a large quantity of information the average person does not care about. The Digital Library effort is also progressing, with the goal of migrating from the traditional book environment to a digital library environment. The challenge to both authors of new publications that will reside on this information domain and developers of systems to locate information is to provide the information and capabilities to sort out the non-relevant items from those desired by the consumer. In effect, as we proceed down this path, it will be the computer that determines what we see versus the human being. The days of going to a library and browsing the new book shelf are being replaced by electronic searching the Internet or the library catalogs. Whatever the search engines return will constrain our knowledge of what information is available. An understanding of Information Retrieval Systems puts this new environment into perspective for both the creator of documents and the consumer trying to locate information.
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Edition
1997 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 282 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-9926-1 (9780792399261)
DOI
10.1007/b102478
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Content
to Information Processing Systems.- Information Retrieval System Capabilities.- Cataloging and Indexing.- Data Structures.- Automatic Indexing.- Document and Term Clustering.- User Search Techniques.- Information Visualization.- Text Search Algorithms.- Information System Evaluation.