Modern Information Retrieval (2^nd Ed.) The Concepts and Technology behind Search

This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science perspective. It provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of information retrieval including extensive coverage of new topics such as web retrieval, web crawling, open source search engines and user interfaces.

From parsing to indexing, clustering to classification, retrieval to ranking, and user feedback to retrieval evaluation, all of the most important concepts are carefully introduced and exemplified. The contents and structure of the book have been carefully designed by the two main authors, with individual contributions coming from leading international authorities in the field, including Yoelle Maarek, Senior Director of Yahoo! Research Israel; Dulce Poncele?on IBM Research; and Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research USA.

This completely reorganized, revised and enlarged second edition of Modern Information Retrieval contains many new chapters and double the number of pages and bibliographic references of the first edition, and a companion website www.mir2ed.org with teaching material. It will prove invaluable to students, professors, researchers, practitioners, and scholars of this fascinating field of information retrieval.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 User Interfaces for Search by Marti Hearst

3 Modeling

4 Retrieval Evaluation

5 Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion

6 Documents: Languages & Properties  with Gonzalo Navarro and Nivio Ziviani

7 Queries: Languages & Properties with Gonzalo Navarro

8 Text Classification with Marcos Gon¸calves

9 Indexing and Searching with Gonzalo Navarro

10 Parallel and Distributed IR with Eric Brown

11 Web Retrieval with Yoelle Maarek

12 Web Crawling with Carlos Castillo

13 Structured Text Retrieval with Mounia Lalmas

14 Multimedia Information Retrieval by Dulce Poncele´on and Malcolm Slaney

15 Enterprise Search by David Hawking

16 Library Systems by Edie Rasmussen

17 Digital Libraries by Marcos Gon¸calves

A Open Source Search Engines with Christian Middleton

B Biographies

Bibliography

Index

• Up-to-date coverage of IR applied to text data; IR applied to multimedia; IR visualization and IR applications.
• Chapters by leading international authorities in the field of IR including Yoelle Maarek, Senior Director of Yahoo! Research Israel; Dulce Poncele´on IBM Research; and Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research USA
• Broad coverage with a Web focus.