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The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval

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Part of the book series: The Information Retrieval Series (INRE, volume 24)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Introduction

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 1-26
  3. Mathematics Basics

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 27-44
  4. Elements of Lattice Theory

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 45-64
  5. Basics of Information Retrieval Technology

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 65-104
  6. Lattice-Based Retrieval Systems

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 105-124
  7. Boolean Retrieval

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 125-134
  8. Lattices of Subspaces and Projectors

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 135-156
  9. Vector Space Retrieval

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 157-178
  10. Fuzzy Algebra-Based Retrieval

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 179-214
  11. Probabilistic Retrieval

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 215-236
  12. Web Retrieval and Ranking

    • Sándor Dominich
    Pages 237-306
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 307-327

Reviews

From the reviews:

"... this book offers a unique approach to the important topic of information retrieval by providing mathematical foundations based on modern algebra... I can easily recommend this book as a reference for any of the technical IR courses offered at several universities." from the ACM Reviews by Donald H. Kraft, Louisiana State University, USA

"Retrieval methods and information retrieval in general are here treated in a unified manner within abstract algebraic structures … . Each chapter is supplemented with exercises and problems (with hints to solutions in the appendix) … . The book is beneficial both for better understanding the existing information retrieval methods and for the creation of new ones." (Antonín Ríha, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1149, 2008)

“This book treats retrieval methods … and IR in general in a unified manner within the one formal framework of modern algebra, namely abstract algebraic structures (primarily lattices). … Exercises and problems are located at the end of every chapter … . the book should be helpful for a wide range of readers from graduate students and educators to researchers and system developers coming from a variety of fields such as computer science … . Every chapter concludes with a References and further reading section.” (John S. Griffin, SIGACT News, Vol. 41 (1), 2010)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science Department, University of Pannonia, Hungary

    Sándor Dominich

About the author

Sándor Dominich is the George Pólya Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Information Retrieval Research Group, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology of the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. His research interests include retrieval models, formal aspects, foundations, effectiveness measurement, and applications. He authored three books, including „Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval" (Springer, 2001) and over seventy research papers. He is a founding co-organiser of the ACM SIGIR MF/IR Workshop series 2000-2005, and ICTIR International Conference 2007 (both together with C.J. van Rijsbergen). He has served as a programme committee member of major Information Retrieval conferences.

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