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...

Table of Contents:

• Digital Libraries
• Scalability Challenges in Web Search Engines
• Spam, Opinions, and other Relationships: Towards a Comprehensive View of Web
• The User in Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation
• Aggregated Search
• Quantum Mechanics and Information Retrieval
• Multimedia Resource Discovery
• Information Retrieval in Context
• Digital Advertising: An Information Scientist's Perspective.