Web Information Retrieval

• Main Authors: Ceri, Stefano (Author), Bozzon, Alessandro (Author), Brambilla, Marco (Author), Della Valle, Emanuele (Author), Fraternali, Piero (Author), Quarteroni, Silvia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications
• Subjects: Computer science.; Mathematical statistics.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; E-commerce.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.; e-Commerce/e-business.

With the proliferation of huge amounts of (heterogeneous) data on the Web, the importance of information retrieval (IR) has grown considerably over the last few years. Big players in the computer industry, such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!, are the primary contributors of technology for fast acce...