Modern Information Retrieval: The Concepts and Technology Behind Search

by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto

This is a rigorous and complete textbook for a first course on information retrieval from the computer science perspective. It provides an up-to-date student oriented treatment of information retrieval including extensive coverage of new topics such as web retrieval, web crawling, open source search engines and user interfaces. From parsing to indexing, clustering to classification, retrieval to ranking, and user feedback to retrieval evaluation, all of the most important concepts are carefully introduced and exemplified. The contents and structure of the book have been carefully designed by the two main authors, with individual contributions coming from leading international authorities in the field, including Yoelle Maarek, Senior Director of Yahoo! Research Israel; Dulce Poncele´on IBM Research; and Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research USA. This completely reorganized, revised and enlarged second edition of Modern Information Retrieval contains many new chapters and double the number of pages and bibliographic references of the first edition, and a companion websitewww.mir2ed.org with teaching material. It will prove invaluable to students, professors, researchers, practitioners, and scholars of this fascinating field of information retrieval.

Genres: Computer Science, Nonfiction

913 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 1999

Reviews

[Mina · Rating 2 out of 5]

قلمروهای نو در بازیابی اطلاعات، سه جلد
ترجمه علی حسین قاسمی

[Kai Weber · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually don't shy away from touching old IT books, as I prefer a conceptually good old book to a messy one that is technologically up-to-date. This book from 1999 is somewhere between these two poles. If you're already a bit familiar with full-text indexing and search technologies like Lucene and Solr, you'll find some theoretical background in the first chapters of this book - and learn that Lucene didn't invent TF/IDF scoring. The later chapters are a rather mixed bag, some treating their topic in a cursory way, some others getting a bit lost while digging too deep. The two main authors promise in the preface that in spite of the book having a bunch of chapter contributors, it is not a compilation of essays, but a monography. Well, stylistically that is true, but the erratic treatment of topics like multimedia retrieval, Web search and digital libraries proves them wrong.
Overall it is a book worth looking at, if you're interested in the fundamental concepts of information retrieval, but you could skip or least just skim through the second half. To end on a marginal note: It is certainly kind of amusing to read a book where Yahoo is treated as the greatest world wide web search engine, where Altavista exists and where Google is only mentioned very briefly. The times they are a-changin'.

[Ganesh Prasad · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

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[Elīna Veļa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn't read all of it, just those chapters that i needed for studies, but it includes almost everything about IR.

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[Durga Prasad]

Very good book for those who are intrested in knowing how the search engine works and things behind it.