Lectures on Information Retrieval Third European Summer-School, ESSIR 2000 Varenna, Italy, September 11-15, 2000. Revised Lectures /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agosti, Maristella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Crestani, Fabio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pasi, Gabriella (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2001.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1980
• Subjects: Coding theory.; Information theory.; Data structures (Computer science).; Business mathematics.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Multimedia information systems.; Coding and Information Theory.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Business Mathematics.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.

Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of information based on its semantic content. The central problem in IR is the quest to find the set of relevant documents, among a large collection containing the information sought, satisfying a user's informat...

Table of Contents:

• Getting into Information Retrieval
• Models in Information Retrieval
• Multilingual Information Access
• Evaluation in Information Retrieval
• Indexing, Browsing, and Searching of Digital Video and Digital Audio Information
• Retrieval of Still Images by Content
• Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval
• Users in Context
• Logic and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval
• Modeling Vagueness in Information Retrieval
• Information Retrieval on the Web
• Information Retrieval and Structured Documents.