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Grossman, David A.; Frieder, Ophir (Professor, George Mason University, Usa) - Information Retrieval - 9781402030048 - V9781402030048
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Information Retrieval

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Description for Information Retrieval Paperback. How an efficient search engine works? What algorithms are used to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? This book aims to answer these and other information retrieval design and implementation questions. It explains how a query is ranked against a document collection using either a single or a combination of retrieval strategies. Series: The Information Retrieval Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UN; UYQL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1100.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
The Information Retrieval Series
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402030048
SKU
V9781402030048
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