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- Few books in the field of information research have received
such critical praise as Peter Ingwersen's Information Retrieval
Interaction.
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- A synthesis of recent progress in information retrieval research,
providing insights into the scope of IR research and its underlying
conceptual foundations, the book is an exhaustive survey of three
principal strands - the traditional approach, the user-oriented,
and the cognitive approach. Peter Ingwersen examines major empirical
studies of human intermediary performance, problems of relevance
and evaluation, as well as the modelling of IR interaction.
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- In doing so, his ambitious book provides an invaluable source
of ideas for future discussion and investigation in the field
of information retrieval research.
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- ISBN 0 947568 54 9
- 1992
- £33.00/US$55.00
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- 'If you are remotely interested in information retrieval,
buy this book! Even if your interest lies only within the broader
area of information science, this book is well worth the investment....
the prose is intelligent, the content meaty, and the observations
well-researched and documented.... the book is a gold mine.'
- Information Processing and Management
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- 'This book is challenging Almost every reader or researcher
in the field will discover works with which he or she is unfamiliar
or only partially familiar. Perhaps most important, the author
has laid out a direction for future productive IR research.'
- Computing Reviews
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- 'This is a very rewarding book, and one that will repay
detailed and repeated study strongly recommended to anyone with
any interest whatsoever in the development of research in information
retrieval.'
- Journal of Documentation
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- 'Primarily an information resource for the researcher
and designer, this book should also be read by other members
of the profession, particularly those who have direct contact
with library users.'
- Library Review
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- 'This is a very rich book. It provides the best exposition
of the cognitive viewpoint in information retrieval research
of which I am aware.... recommended reading for researchers and
students alike.'
- Program
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- 'Ingwersen's book is the first (to integrate research
on the user in the field of IR) on so ambitious a scale.... what
is so refreshing is that Ingwersen combines a philosophical approach
with an understanding of the practicalities of information seeking
and information provision.'
- Library and Information Research News
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