Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Melucci, Massimo (Editor), Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 33
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

Information retrieval is the science concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of documents starting from their semantic content. It is employed to fulfill some information need from a large number of digital documents. Given the ever-growing amount of documents available and the heteroge...