Author: Belew, Richard K.
Title: Finding Out About: A Cognitive Perspective on Search Engine Technology and the WWW
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000. orig.boards. 25x17cm, xxvii,356 pp. With an unopened computer optical disc in rear pocket.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Overview; Extracting lexical features; Weighting and matching against indices; Assessing the retrieval; Mathematical foundations; 6. Inference beyond the index; Adaptive information retrieval; Conclusions and future directions ["The World Wide Web is rapidly filling with more text than anyone could have imagined even a short time ago. But simultaneously the task of isolating relevant documents within this vast information has become just that much more daunting. Richard Belew brings a cognitive perspective to the study of free-text information retrieval as a discipline within computer science. He introduces the idea of Finding Out About (FOA) as the process of actively seeking out information relevant to a topic of interest, and describes many of its facets - ranging from creating a good characterization of what the user seeks, to methods of inferring semantic features of content from syntactic clues contained in documents, to the problem of evaluating whether search engines are performing as we have intended. In the process, Finding Out About explains how to build useful tools for searching collections of text and other media" - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Information Technology, Search Engines, Programming, World Wide Web, Computer Programs, , , ,