Introduction modern information retrieval
- 2nd ed.
- London : Facet Publishing , 2004
- 474 p. ill, :
Basic concepts of Information retrieval systems Introduction Purpose Functions Components Kinds of information retrieval systems Design issues Design phases References Database technology Introduction Data The database Records and fields Properties of databases Kinds of databases Database technoiogy The deveiopment of databases in an information retrievai environment Discussion References Bibliographic formats introduction Bibiiographic records Integrated database approach ISO 2709: Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange MARC format UNIMARC format The Common Communication Format Discussion References Cataloguing and metadata Introduction Cataloguing Metadata Summary References Subject analysis and representation Introduction Classification Bibliographic Classification Classification of internet resources Subject analysis Subject indexing Exhaustivity and specificity Manual indexing Pre-coordinate indexing systems Post-coordinate indexing systems Problems of manual indexing Theory of indexing Discussion References Automatic Indexing and file organization Introduction The process of indexing Automatic classification Index file organization Inverted file Sequential access Alternative text retrieval structures Discussion References Vocabulary control Introduction Controlled vs natural indexing Vocabulary control tools Guidelines for developing a thesaurus Criteria for evaluating a thesaurus Use of thesauri in online information retrieval References 8 Abstracts and abstracting Abstracts Types of abstract Qualities of abstracts Uses of abstracts The art of abstracting Automatic abstracting Recent works on text summarization Discussion References 9 Searching and retrieval introduction The search strategy and its prerequisites The pre-search interview The searching process Retrieval models Alternative information retrieval models Search facilities offered by most text retrieval systems Discussion References 10 Users of information retrieval Introduction Users and their nature Types of information needs Information needs in different areas of activity Information seeking behaviour of users What we need to know about users User studies Possible sources of information about users References 11 User-centred models of information retrieval Introduction Information seeking Human information behaviour models User-centred information search models Discussion References 12 User interfaces Introduction The four-phase framework for interface design Information seeking and user interfaces User interfaces and visualization User interfaces of some information retrieval systems References 13 Evaluation of Information retrieval systems Introduction The purpose of evaluation Evaluation criteria The steps of evaluation New retrieval parameters References 14 Evaluation experiments introduction The Cranfield tests MEDLARS The SMART retrieval experiment The STAIRS project Limitations of early evaluation studies TREC References 15 Online and CD-ROM information retrieval Introduction Online searching CD-ROM databases Summary References 16 Multimedia information retrieval Introduction Multimedia information retrieval Standards Summary References 17 Hypertext and markup languages Introduction Hypertext Markup languages Discussion References 18 Web information retrieval Introduction Traditional vs web information retrieval Web information: volume and growth Access to information on the web: the tools Web information retrieval: evaluation studies References 19 Intelligent information retrieval introduction intelligent retrieval systems Artificial intelligence Expert systems Kinds of expert systems Components of expert systems Historical development of expert systems Development methodology and approaches Knowledge elicitation and representation methods inference strategies End-user modelling and interfaces Development tools Expert systems for library and information services Discussion References 20 Natural language processing and information retrieval Introduction Natural language understanding Syntactic analysis Semantic analysis Pragmatic knowledge References 21 Natural language processing systems Introduction Literature on natural language processing systems Natural language text processing systems Natural language user interfaces Internet, web and digital library applications of natural language processing systems Machine translation and cross-language information retrieval Summary References 22 Information retrieval in digital libraries Introduction Information resources in digital libraries The basic design of a digital library Interoperability Information retrieval features of selected digital libraries Common features of information retrieval in digital libraries Special IR features in DLs Problems and prospects Summary References 23 Trends in information retrieval Introduction Evaluation of information retrieval systems Developments related to the input subsystem Searching and retrieval User studies and user modelling User interfaces Information retrieval standards and protocols Information retrieval in the context of web and digital libraries Intelligent information retrieval Evaluation of natural language processing systems Machine translation Conclusions References