Modern information retrieval

This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science (as opposed to a user-centred) perspective. The advent of the Internet and the enormous increase in volume of electronically stored information generally has led to substantial work on IR from the computer science perspective - this book provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of the subject. "We live in the information age, where swift access to relevant information in whatever form or medium can dictate the success or failure of businesses or individuals. The timely provision of relevant information with minimal noise is critical to modern society and this is what information retrieval (IR) is all about. It is a dynamic subject, with current changes driven by the expansion of the World Wide Web, the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and the development of reliable and low-cast mass storage devices, Modern Information Retrieval discusses all these changes in great detail and can be used for a first course on IR as well as graduate courses on the topic."--Jacket An information-retrieval text written from a computer-science perspective rather than a user-centered perspective. The first nine chapters address issues including modeling, retrieval evaluation, query languages and options, text and multimedia languages, text operations, and indexing and searching. Six remaining chapters, written by contributing researchers, address special current issues such as parallel and distributed IR and digital libraries. Discusses the changes in modern information retrieval and the provision of relevant information with minimal noise. Softcover. DLC: Information storage and retrieval systems.