Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation / Edition 1

by Gerald J. Kowalski

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792399261
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/1997
Series:	The Information Retrieval Series , #1
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

Explains recent advances and their application to existing systems. The author puts the importance of the Internet and its associated hypertext linked structure into perspective as a new type of information retrieval data structure. The total system approach also includes a discussion of the human interface and the importance of information visualization for identification of relevant information. The theoretical matrices used to describe information systems are expanded to discuss their practical application in the uncontrolled environment of real world systems. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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