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- This volume provides an overview of the components of information
retrieval systems, and illustrates particular systems in operation.
Further sections describe the use of automatic indexing techniques,
including the selection of terms from document texts and particular
requirements of free text databases. Weighting techniques to
improve retrieval performance, alternatives to current Boolean
retrieval mechanisms, and the techniques which might figure in
future retrieval systems are reviewed.
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- The editors aim is not to provide an exhaustive, critical
review of the research, but instead to summarise major findings
in a relatively non-technical manner - thereby providing an invaluable
guide through the otherwise increasingly complex processes at
the heart of modern information systems.
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- ISBN 0 947568 21 2
- 1988
- £25.00/US$46.00
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- 'At once lucid and scholarly.... commended as a synthesis
of some significant experimentation in the field, with the added
benefit of an authoritative overview provided by one of the most
active experimenters in the field.'
- International Journal of Information Management
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- 'Should be on the reading lists of all who propose a serious
study of information science, as well as finding a place on the
shelves of those who, like this reviewer, believe they know what
they are doing in practice, but like to refer to the basics from
time to time for reassurance.'
- Program
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- ' gives a solid picture of information retrieval that
will be useful to students, researchers and anyone interested
in the underlying principles...'
- Australian Library Review
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- 'Offers an excellent selection of readings and links research
to the advancement of the discipline.'
- Library Resources and Technical Services
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- ' a serious, heavyweight book '
- Aslib Current Awareness Bulletin
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