New horizons in information retrieval

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New horizons in information retrieval

David Ellis

Library Association Pub., 1990

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Bibliography: p. 126-133

Includes index

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Description

An introduction to the principle generic approaches to information retrieval research and their associated concepts, models and systems. It deals with statistical and probabilistic retrieval techniques, cognitive user models, expert intermediary systems and hypertext.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Introduction - the origins of information retrieval research: the first information retrieval system tests
  • testing indexing systems
  • Cranfield I
  • testing indexing devices - Cranfield II
  • relevance judgement and retrieval system tests
  • research on relevance judgement
  • relevance as a performance criterion
  • the Cranfield tradition and the information retrieval model. Part 2 Statistical and probabilistic retrieval: automatic indexing, classification and searching - SMART
  • document clustering
  • probabilistic models of relevance and relevance feedback
  • achievements and limitations of the statistical approach. Part 3 Cognitive user modelling: information retrieval through man-machine dialogue - the THOMAS program
  • anomalous states of knowledge
  • ASK-based retrieval
  • stereotype-based fiction retrieval - the GRUNDY program
  • cognitive models for retrieval. Part 4 Expert intermediary systems: expert intermediary systems - CONIT, CANSEARCH and PLEXUS
  • distributed expert-based intermediary system
  • MONSTRAT
  • intelligent intermediary for information retrieval
  • I3r
  • COmposite document expert/extended/effective retrieval CODER
  • expert systems for information retrieval. Part 5 Associations, relations and hypertext: 'as we may think' - MEMEX
  • database browsing and navigation - TINman
  • the origins of hypertext - Xanadu and NLS/augment
  • card-based hypertext systems - NoteCards and HyperCard
  • transforming text to hypertext
  • guide
  • hypercatalog
  • information retrieval by association
  • potential and problems of hypertext.

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  • NCID
    BA10524216
  • ISBN
    • 0853657785
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 138 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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