Lectures on Information Retrieval

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Getting into Information Retrieval

   • C. J. Keith van Rijsbergen

   Pages 1-20

3. Models in Information Retrieval

   • Norbert Fuhr

   Pages 21-50

4. Multilingual Information Access

   • Carol Peters, Páraic Sheridan

   Pages 51-80

5. Evaluation in Information Retrieval

   • Stephen Robertson

   Pages 81-92

6. Indexing, Browsing, and Searching of Digital Video and Digital Audio Information

   • Alan F. Smeaton

   Pages 93-110

7. Retrieval of Still Images by Content

   • John P. Eakins

   Pages 111-138

8. Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval

   • Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

   Pages 139-156

9. Users in Context

   • Peter Ingwersen

   Pages 157-178

10. Logic and Uncertainty in Information Retrieval

    • Fabio Crestani, Mounia Lalmas

    Pages 179-206

11. Modeling Vagueness in Information Retrieval

    • Gloria Bordogna, Gabriella Pasi

    Pages 207-241

12. Information Retrieval on the Web

    • Maristella Agosti, Massimo Melucci

    Pages 242-285

13. Information Retrieval and Structured Documents

    • Yves Chiaramella

    Pages 286-309

14. Back Matter

    Pages 311-311

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Information Retrieval (IR) is concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of information based on its semantic content. The central problem in IR is the quest to find the set of relevant documents, among a large collection containing the information sought, satisfying a user's information need usually expressed in a natural language query. Documents may be objects or items in any medium: text, image, audio, or indeed a mixture of all three. This book presents 12 revised lectures given at the Third European Summer School in Information Retrieval, ESSIR 2000, held at the Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy, in September 2000. The first part of the book is devoted to the foundation of IR and related areas; the second part on advanced topics addresses various current issues, from usability aspects to Web searching and browsing.

• Information retrieval
• Web information retrieval
• browsing
• digital libraries
• document search
• image retrieval
• indexing
• information
• information extraction
• information retrieval and uncertainty
• multimedia retrieval

• Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Universitá di Padova, Padova

  Maristella Agosti

• Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland,UK

  Fabio Crestani

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ITIM, Milano, Italy

  Gabriella Pasi

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