The growth of the Internet and the availability of enormous volumes of data in digital form have necessitated intense interest in techniques to assist the user

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and

In order to be effective for their users, information retrieval (IR) systems should be adapted to the specific needs of particular environments. The huge and gr

Chapter 1 places into perspective a total Information Storage and Retrieval System. This perspective introduces new challenges to the problems that need to be t

Provides an overview and instruction on the evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems with users.