a ISBN 978-14-4197715-1

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng

a Classification number QA76

b Item number .K693 2011

a Personal name Kowalski, Gerald,

d Dates associated with a name 1945-

h Medium BOOK

a Title Information retrieval architecture and algorithms /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Gerald Kowalski.

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Springer,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2011.

a Extent xii, 305 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 24 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.

a Formatted contents note 1. Information retrieval system functions. -- Introduction -- Functional overview of information retrieval systems -- Understanding search functions -- Relationship to database management systems -- Digital libraries and data warehouses -- Processing subsystem overview -- Summary -- Exercises -- 2. Data structures and mathematical algorithms. -- Data structures -- Mathematical algorithms -- Summary -- Exercises -- 3. Ingest. -- Introduction to ingest -- Item receipt -- Duplicate detection -- Item normalization -- Zoning and creation of processing tokens -- Stemming -- Entity processing -- Categorization -- Citational metadata -- Summary -- Exercises -- 4. Indexing. -- What is indexing? -- Manual indexing process -- Automatic indexing of text -- Automatic indexing of multimedia -- Summary -- Exercises -- 5. Search. -- Introduction -- Similarity measures and ranking -- Hidden Markov Models techniques -- Ranking algorithms -- Relevance feedback -- Selective dissemination of information search -- Weighted searches of Boolean systems -- Multimedia searching -- Summary -- Exercises -- 6. Document and term clustering. -- Introduction to clustering -- Thesaurus generation -- Item clustering -- Hierarchy of clusters -- Measure of tightness for cluster -- Issues with use of hierarchical clusters for search -- Summary -- Exercises -- 7. Information presentation. -- Information presentation introduction -- Presentation of the hits -- Display of the item -- Collaborative filtering -- Multimedia presentation -- Human perception and presentation -- Summary -- Exercises -- 8. Search architecture. -- Index search optimization -- Text search optimization -- GOOGLE scalable multiprocessor architecture -- Summary -- Exercises -- 9. Information system evaluation. -- Introduction to information system evaluation -- Measures used in system evaluations -- Multimedia information retrieval evaluation -- Measurement example: TREC evolution -- Summary -- Exercises.

a Summary, etc This text presents a theoretical and practical examination of the latest developments in Information Retrieval and their application to existing systems. By starting with a functional discussion of what is needed for an information system, the reader can grasp the scope of information retrieval problems and discover the tools to resolve them. The book takes a system approach to explore every functional processing step in a system from ingest of an item to be indexed to displaying results, showing how implementation decisions add to the information retrieval goal, and thus providing the user with the needed outcome, while minimizing their resources to obtain those results. The text stresses the current migration of information retrieval from just textual to multimedia, expounding upon multimedia search, retrieval and display, as well as classic and new textual techniques. It also introduces developments in hardware, and more importantly, search architectures, such as those introduced by Google, in order to approach scalability issues. About this textbook: A first course text for advanced level courses, providing a survey of information retrieval system theory and architecture, complete with challenging exercises Approaches information retrieval from a practical systems view in order for the reader to grasp both scope and solutions Features what is achievable using existing technologies and investigates what deficiencies warrant additional exploration

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Information storage and retrieval systems

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Algorithms

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Database Management