Information Retrieval
by C. J. van Rijsbergen
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann 1979
ISBN/ASIN: 0408709294
ISBN-13: 9780408709293
Number of pages: 224
Description:
The material of this book is aimed at advanced undergraduate information (or computer) science students, postgraduate library science students, and research workers in the field of IR. The major change in the second edition of this book is the addition of a new chapter on probabilistic retrieval - one of the most interesting and active areas of research in information retrieval.
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