Information Retrieval Progress

Author: Jiao Yuying
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book consists of three parts: basic theories of information retrieval, modern information retrieval technologies, and information retrieval services. It briefly outlines the development of information retrieval from literature to the current network environment, including the latest advancements, major academic insights, and research findings in basic theories of information retrieval, particularly in data information description mechanisms and the principles, tools, and strategies of network information retrieval. The book introduces the development trends and major research achievements of contemporary information retrieval technologies such as full-text retrieval, multimedia retrieval, hypertext and hypermedia retrieval, online and CD-ROM retrieval, and network information retrieval. It summarizes traditional information retrieval methods and strategies, evaluates the research, application, and development of computer, CD-ROM, and Internet-based retrieval service systems and their related technologies. This book can serve as a graduate textbook for information management, library and information science, and document studies in higher education institutions, and is also suitable for programmers, internet professionals, information personnel in enterprises and institutions, library management staff, and others.