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Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age
This second edition of Heting Chu’s popular work on information representation and retrieval (IRR) features numerous updates and revisions, including coverage of taxonomies, folksonomies, ontologies, social tagging, search/retrieve web service, and next generation OPACs. The chapter on artificial intelligence has been significantly expanded to include a host of related topics such as automatic summarization, question answering, natural language searching, and the semantic web.
As in the first edition, Chu emphasizes principles and fundamentals. She reviews key concepts and major developmental stages of the field, and then systematically examines information representation methods, IRR languages, retrieval techniques and models, and internet retrieval systems. In addition, she explains the retrieval of multilingual, multimedia, and hyperstructured information and explores the user dimension and evaluation issues.
As in the first edition, Chu emphasizes principles and fundamentals. She reviews key concepts and major developmental stages of the field, and then systematically examines information representation methods, IRR languages, retrieval techniques and models, and internet retrieval systems. In addition, she explains the retrieval of multilingual, multimedia, and hyperstructured information and explores the user dimension and evaluation issues.
306 pages, Hardcover
First published January 5, 2010
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July 22, 2021
dear book:
this book has broken my spirit. it is true i am wholly uninterested in this topic, even though it is something i feel like would be helpful to know. if i had had a better teacher for this class, i could at this very minute know all sorts of amazing things about information retrieval. as it stands - crappy teacher and crappy textbook and one day away from the final - i am a whimpering mass of jelly and nerves.
this book is boring. this book is presupposing all sorts of knowledge that this reader does not have. this book has typos. (ironically in the section that stresses the importance of accuracy when evaluating the quality of information representation.) this book is going up on ebay day after tomorrow.
merry christmas, naughty little boys and girls. you get a textbook!
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this book has broken my spirit. it is true i am wholly uninterested in this topic, even though it is something i feel like would be helpful to know. if i had had a better teacher for this class, i could at this very minute know all sorts of amazing things about information retrieval. as it stands - crappy teacher and crappy textbook and one day away from the final - i am a whimpering mass of jelly and nerves.
this book is boring. this book is presupposing all sorts of knowledge that this reader does not have. this book has typos. (ironically in the section that stresses the importance of accuracy when evaluating the quality of information representation.) this book is going up on ebay day after tomorrow.
merry christmas, naughty little boys and girls. you get a textbook!
come to my blog!
May 1, 2011
No pictures or graphical illustrations. Repetitive, non-illuminating text. Ugh!
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