THE KLUWER INTERNATIONAL SERIES
ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
The growth of the Internet and the availability of enormous
volumes of data in digital form has necessitated intense interest in
techniques for assisting 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 for answering questions as well as large
quantities 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.
Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation
provides a theoretical and practical explanation of the latest
advancements in information retrieval and their application to
existing systems. It takes a system approach, discussing all aspects
of an Information Retrieval System. The importance of the Internet and
its associated hypertext-linked structure is put into perspective as a
new type of information retrieval data structure. The total system
approach also includes discussion of the human interface and the
importance of information visualization for identification of relevant
information. The theoretical metrics used to describe information
systems are expanded to discuss their practical application in the
uncontrolled environment of real world systems.
Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation is
suitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on information
retrieval, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in
industry.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
http://www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/book.htm?0-7923-9926-9
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