Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know
what algorithms are used to rank resulting documents in response to
user requests? The authors answer these and other key information
retrieval design and implementation questions. This book is not yet
another high level text. Instead, algorithms are thoroughly
described, making this book ideally suited for both computer
science students and practitioners who work on search-related
applications. As stated in the foreword, this book provides a
current, broad, and detailed overview of the field and is the only
one that does so. Examples are used throughout to illustrate the
algorithms. The authors explain how a query is ranked against a
document collection using either a single or a combination of
retrieval strategies, and how an assortment of utilities are
integrated into the query processing scheme to improve these
rankings. Methods for building and compressing text indexes,
querying and retrieving documents in multiple languages, and using
parallel or distributed processing to expedite the search are
likewise described. This edition is a major expansion of the one
published in 1998. Besides updating the entire book with current
techniques, it includes new sections on language models,
cross-language information retrieval, peer-to-peer processing, XML
search, mediators, and duplicate document detection.
TOC:Introduction.- Retrieval Strategies.- Retrieval Utilities.-
Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Efficiency.- Integrating
Structured Data and Text.- Parallel Information Retrieval.-
Distributed Information Retrieval.- Summary and Future Directions.-
References.- Index.
From the reviews of the second edition: "This is a book that has great breadth and depth a ] . If you are a computer science student a ] this is an excellent textbook. It has comprehensive coverage of different approaches a ] . Headings are relevant to the content and the language used is clear and concise. This makes it a good reference to look up a ] . For those of you directly involved in the exploration of different approaches to algorithmic search a ] this book would be invaluable." (Melanie Kendell, Informer, Issue 17, Winter 2005/2006)
Inhaltsangabe
- Introduction
- Retrieval Strategies
- Retrieval Utilities
- Cross-Language Information Retrieval
- Efficiency
- Integrating Structured Data and Text
- Parallel Information Retrieval
- Distributed Information Retrieval
- Summary and Future Directions
- References
- Index.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction.- Retrieval Strategies.- Retrieval Utilities.- Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- Efficiency.- Integrating Structured Data and Text.- Parallel Information Retrieval.- Distributed Information Retrieval.- Summary and Future Directions.- References.- Index.
