Information Retrieval: A Survey
by Ed Greengrass
Publisher: University of Maryland 2000
Number of pages: 224
Description:
This report is a tutorial and survey of the state of the art, both research and commercial, in the dynamic field of Information Retrieval. The topics covered include: formulation of structured and unstructured queries and topic statements, indexing of document collections, methods for computing the similarity of queries and documents, classification and routing of documents in an incoming stream to users on the basis of topic or need statements, etc.
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