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Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval 2nd Edition
'Chowdhury's new text succeeds admirably in its aim to bring together traditional theory of classification, cataloguing and subject indexing as well as new, more IT-oriented, principles, models and techniques of information retrieval.'
AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY JOURNAL
'Students and their teachers who need a practical, wide-ranging introductory
survey of information retrieval will find it in this book.'
PROGRAM
'My initial reaction to this book was to applaud the author the scope is impressive.'
EDUCATION FOR INFORMATION
'a useful all-in-one overview of the various aspects of modern information retrieval'
LASIE
An information retrieval system is designed to analyse, process and store sources of information and retrieve those that match a particular user's requirements. A bewildering range of techniques is now available to the information professional attempting to achieve this goal. It is recognized that today's information professionals need to concentrate their efforts on learning the techniques of computerized information retrieval. However, it is this book's contention that it also benefits them to learn the theory, techniques and tools that constitute the traditional approaches to the organization and processing of information. In fact much of this knowledge may still be applicable in the storage and retrieval of electronic information in digital library environments.
This fully revised second edition has been thoroughly updated to incorporate major changes in this rapidly expanding field since the first edition in 1999, including multimedia information retrieval, user interfaces and digital libraries. Unique in its scope, it covers the whole spectrum of information storage and retrieval.
Illustrated with many examples and comprehensively referenced for an international audience, this is an indispensable textbook for students of library and information studies undertaking courses in information retrieval, information organization, information use and knowledge-based systems at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is also an invaluable aid for information practitioners wishing to brush up on their skills and keep up to date with the latest techniques.
Classification, cataloguing, subject indexing, abstracting and vocabulary control;
CD-ROM and online information retrieval, multimedia, hypertext and hypermedia;
Expert systems and natural language processing techniques;
Knowledge-based natural language text processing and user interface systems;
Information retrieval in the context of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the digital library environment.
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