Finding Out About

A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW

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The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined a short time ago. However, the task of determining which data is relevant has become appreciably harder. In this original new work Richard Belew brings a cognitive science perspective to the study of information as a computer science discipline. He introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA), the process of actively seeking out information relevant to a topic of interest. Belew describes all facets of FOA, ranging from creating a good characterization of what the user seeks to evaluating the successful performance of search engines. His volume clearly shows how to build many of the tools that are useful for searching collections of text and other media. While computer scientists make up the book's primary audience, Belew skillfully presents technical details in a manner that makes important themes accessible to readers more comfortable with words than equations. Resources are available from the book's web site

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'One of the wonderful things about this textbook is that it considers information retrieval in the context of the Web ... It is only in the last ten years that a new technology- the World Wide Web - has started to have an impact on people's information-seeking activities. It is not easy to introduce current technology meaningfully and successfully into scientific discussions about IR, but Rik Belew has done just that. Students will come to this book with quite a sophisticated knowledge of the Web and will not be disappointed. From the point of view of a teacher introducing the Web as a vehicle for experimentation, it is ideal.' Keith van Rijsbergen from the foreword. 'A comprehensive resource for teaching a programming-based information retrieval class. The text provides an integrated introduction to many topics in information retrieval with a strong emphasis on mathematical and machine learning models, as well as giving a clear account of implementation details for the programming assignments.' Information Retrieval '... readable, understandable, and inspiring. It is strongly recommended.' E. Kostolansky, Zentralblatt fur Mathematik 'This is a fascinating work - the author describes it as a 'textbook' but it is more than that ... refreshingly, Belew's book takes a broader view ... than has tended to be the case in most earlier books ... the overall structure is particularly well thought out ... this is a very welcome addition to the book literature ... notable for its concise and very up-to-date summarising of theoretical knowledge, its stimulating cross-disciplinarity, and its challenging and creative use of IT to support is readership. Many students will find it inspirational.' Michael Heine, Journal of Documentation

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Natural Language & Machine Translation Human-Computer Interaction Databases Information Retrieval

Overview
Extracting lexical features
Weighting and matching against indices
Assessing the retrieval
Mathematical foundations
Inference beyond the index
Adaptive information retrieval
Conclusions and future directions
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